Webster County’s unemployment rate for July increased one–tenth of a percentage point to 6.3%, according to figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The county’s jobless rate was 6.2% in June (revised) and 5.4% in July 2018.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for July came in 2002, when it reached 18.2%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1997 and 1998, when it dropped to 4.4% each year.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in July increased by 10 to 250. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 10 to 3,930.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 6.1% in July while the national average, also unadjusted, was 4%. July jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 6%; Chickasaw, 6.8%; Choctaw, 5.5%; Clay, 9%; Grenada, 5.6%; Montgomery, 6.5%; and Oktibbeha, 6.8%.
