Webster County’s unemployment rate for April increased two-tenths of a percentage point to 5.2%, according to figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The county’s jobless rate was 5% in March and 4.7% in April 2018.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for April came in 2002, when it reached 15.9%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 4%.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in April increased by 10 to 200. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 50 to 3,910. The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.6% in April while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.3%.
April jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 4.4%; Chickasaw, 4.8%; Choctaw, 4.5%; Clay, 6.1%; Grenada, 4.2%; Montgomery, 5.2%; Oktibbeha, 4.9%.
