DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for December, 2016 was 6.1%, up from 5.5% in November but lower than 6.5% in December, 2015.
The local labor force for December 2016 was 7,550. Employment was 7,100 and 460 were unemployed.
County unemployment estimates for December 2016 show the rates increased in all 95 counties.
Jobless rates for December among the fourteen counties in the Upper Cumberland region were as follows from highest to lowest:
Jackson:7.4%
Clay: 7.4%
Pickett: 7.2%
Cumberland: 7%
Van Buren: 6.6%
DeKalb: 6.1%
Fentress: 6%
White: 5.7%
Overton: 5.6%
Putnam: 5%
Warren: 4.6%
Cannon:4.5%
Smith: 4.4%
Macon:4.4%
For the month of December, Davidson County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate at 3.6 percent, increasing from 3.5 percent the previous month. Knox County was 4.1 percent, an increase from the previous month’s 3.9 percent. The Hamilton County rate was 4.8 percent, increasing from a previous rate of 4.6 percent. Shelby County had a 5.5 percent rate, increasing from November’s 5.3 percent.
The Tennessee and U.S. preliminary unemployment rates for December were 4.9 and 4.7 percent, respectively, increasing one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month’s revised rate.
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, opening and closing of schools, and other recurring seasonal events from economic time series.
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