Webster County’s unemployment rate for March remained unchanged at 5.6%, according to the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. The county’s jobless rate was also 5.6% in February and 5% in March 2019. MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for March came in 1991, when it reached 15.8%. The lowest rate for that period was in 2017, when it dropped to 4.8%. The number of unemployed Webster Countians in March remained unchanged at 220. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 10 to 3,950. The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5% in March while the national average, also unadjusted, was 4.5%. Jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 5.4%; Chickasaw, 5.1%; Choctaw, 5%; Clay, 7.3%; Grenada, 4.7%; Montgomery, 5.7%; and Oktibbeha, 5.1%.
