Webster County’s unemployment rate for November decreased eight-tenths of a percentage point to 5.8 %, according to figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The county’s jobless rate was 6.6% in October and 4.2% in November 2018.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for November came in 2002, when it reached 14.9%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 3.1%.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in November decreased by 40 to 220. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, decreased by 90 to 3,860.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.5% in November while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.3%. Jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 5.7%; Chickasaw, 5.7%; Choctaw, 5.2%; Clay, 8.7%; Grenada, 5%; Montgomery, 6.2%; and Oktibbeha, 5.7%.
