NASHVILLE – Statewide, Tennessee continued to expertise near-record low unemployment in April, and county jobless charges for the month had been simply as spectacular. The most recent numbers for the Division of Labor and Workforce Growth (TDLWD) present county unemployment decreased from Shelby to Sullivan counties in the course of the month.
All 95 counties in Tennessee reported decrease unemployment in April and every county had a fee under 5%.
Williamson County recorded the bottom statistic within the state and its April fee was the bottom the county has seen within the final 22 years. At 1.9%, unemployment within the county decreased by 0.5 of a proportion level when in comparison with March.
Moore County got here in with the second-lowest fee within the state at 2%, a 0.3 of a proportion level drop from the earlier month’s quantity.
Remarkably the charges within the ten counties with the very best unemployment ranged from 4.6% to three.6%.
Bledsoe County had the state’s highest fee. However, the brand new 4.6% was down 0.7 of a proportion level from March.
Meigs and Haywood counties had the subsequent highest charges at 4.5% and 4%, each down a full proportion level when in comparison with the earlier month. Each different county within the state had an unemployment fee under 4%.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment fee dropped to three.3%, down 0.1 of a proportion level from March’s fee. It’s also simply above Tennessee’s all-time lowest unemployment fee of three.2%.
Throughout the nation, seasonally adjusted unemployment additionally decreased in April, down 0.1 of a proportion level to three.4%.
An entire evaluation of the April 2023 county unemployment information and different labor pressure info is available here.
The state of Tennessee will launch the statewide unemployment fee for Might 2023 on Thursday, June 15, 2023, at 1:30 p.m. CDT.
