DeKalb Jobless Rate for May Jumps to 7.1%

DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for May was 7.1%, up from 6.5% in April but below 7.9% in May, 2014.
The local labor force for May was 7,230. A total of 6,720 were employed and 520 were without work.
County unemployment rates for May show the rates increased in 92 counties, decreased in one county and remained the same in two
DeKalb County’s Jobless Rate for May was fifth highest in the fourteen county Upper Cumberland region.
Here’s how they rank from highest to lowest:
Clay: 8.8%
Van Buren: 8.1%
Jackson:7.8%
Overton:7.7%
DeKalb:7.1%
Cumberland:7%
Fentress:7%
Pickett: 6.9%
White: 6.3%
Putnam:6.1%
Warren:5.9%
Cannon:5.7%
Smith:5.4%
Macon:5.2%
Davidson County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate in May at 4.5 percent, up from 4.1 percent in April. Knox County was 4.7 percent in May, up from 4.3 the previous month. The Hamilton County May rate was 5.5 percent, up from 4.9 in April. Shelby County was 6.7 percent in May, up from 6.1 percent the previous month.
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for May was 5.8 percent, two-tenths of one percentage point lower than the April revised rate of 6.0 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for May was 5.5 percent, one-tenth of one percentage point higher than the prior month.
The state and national unemployment rates are seasonally adjusted while the county unemployment rates are not. Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that eliminates the influences of weather, holidays, the opening and closing of schools, and other recurring seasonal events from economic time series.