February 17, 2019
By: Dwayne Page
DeKalb County’s unemployment rate for December was 3.8%, down from 4.1% in November and just under 3.9% in December 2017.
The local labor force for December 2018 was 7,860. A total of 7,560 were employed and 300 were without work.
More than three-quarters of Tennessee’s 95 counties experienced a drop in unemployment during December 2018 according to data by Gov. Bill Lee and Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Dr. Jeff McCord.
Seventy-six counties saw a decrease in unemployment in December; the rate remained unchanged in three counties, and 16 counties experienced an uptick in their jobless numbers.
Williamson County continued to have the state’s lowest unemployment during the final month of 2018 with a rate of 2.1 percent.
Hancock County had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 5.7 percent, which increased by 1.1 percent from November’s figure.
Statewide, Tennessee’s December unemployment rate remained at 3.6 percent for the second consecutive month. Nationally, the United States’ unemployment rate saw an uptick to 3.9 percent, which was 0.2 of a percentage point higher than in November.