Webster County’s unemployment rate for February decreased three-tenths of a percentage point to 5.6%, according to the most recent figures from the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The county’s jobless rate was 5.9% in January and 5.1% in February 2019.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for February came in 2003, when it reached 14.5%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 4.7%.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in February decreased by 10 to 220. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 40 to 3,940.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.1% in February while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.8%.
Jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 5.6%; Chickasaw, 5.1%; Choctaw, 5.2%; Clay, 7.1%; Grenada, 4.8%; Montgomery, 5.9%; and Oktibbeha, 4.9%.
