Webster County’s unemployment rate for August decreased five–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 6.3% in July and 4.7% in August 2018.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for August came in 2002, when it reached 17.1%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 3.8%.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in August decreased by 20 to 230. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, also decreased by 20 to 3,910.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.2% in August while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.8%. Jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 5.4%; Chickasaw, 5.9%; Choctaw, 5.1%; Clay, 7.3%; Grenada, 5.1%; Montgomery, 6%; and Oktibbeha, 6.1%.
