Webster County’s unemployment rate decreased five-tenths of a percentage point to 4.5 percent in March.
The county’s jobless rate went down from 5 percent in February and from 4.6 percent in March 2017.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in March decreased by 20 to 180. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 10 to 3,910.
The state’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 4.3 percent in March while the national average was 4.1 percent, also unadjusted. Rankin County posted the lowest unemployment rate for the month at 3 percent while Jefferson had the highest at 12.6 percent.
March jobless rates in adjoining counties:
• Calhoun, 3.7 percent.
• Grenada, 3.8 percent.
• Oktibbeha, 3.9 percent.
• Chickasaw, 4.2 percent.
• Choctaw, 4.7 percent.
• Montgomery, 4.8 percent.
• Clay, 5.4 percent.
