DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for September dropped to 7.4%, down from 8.2% in August and from 8.9% in September 2011
The local labor force for September was 9,740. A total of 9,010 were employed and 720 were unemployed. DeKalb County had the fourth lowest unemployment rate among the fourteen counties in the Upper Cumberland region.
Here’s how they ranked from highest to lowest:
Pickett County: 11.3%
White County: 11%
Van Buren County: 10.4%
Clay County: 9.1%
Fentress County: 9.1%
Warren County: 8.6%
Cumberland County: 8.2%
Macon County:8.2%
Overton County: 8.1%
Jackson County: 7.5%
DeKalb County:7.4%
Smith County: 7.1%
Putnam County: 7%
Cannon County: 6.9%
County non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rates for September show the rate decreased in 94 counties and increased in one.
Tennessee’s unemployment rate for September decreased to 8.3 percent, down from the August revised rate of 8.5 percent. The national unemployment rate for September 2012 was 7.8 percent, 0.3 percentage point lower than the August rate.
The state unemployment rate is 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.
Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate of 5.9 percent, down from the August rate of 6.7 percent. Davidson County was 6.6 percent, down from 7.4 percent. Hamilton County was 7.1 percent, down from 7.7 percent, and Shelby County was 8.5 percent, down from 8.9 percent in August.
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