From Staff Reports
Webster County’s unemployment rate remained at 4.2 percent in November.
The county had the same jobless rate in October but it is down from 4.6 percent in November 2017.
Mississippi Department of Employment Security statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for November came in 1995, when it reached 17.3 percent. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 3.1 percent.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in November decreased by 10 to 160. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, decreased by 50 to 3,900.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.1 percent in November while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.5 percent. Rankin County posted the lowest unemployment rate for the month at 3.1 percent while Jefferson had the highest at 9.4 percent.
November jobless rates in adjoining counties:
• Calhoun, 3.7 percent.
• Grenada, 3.8 percent.
• Oktibbeha, 4 percent.
• Choctaw, 4.1 percent.
• Montgomery, 4.5 percent.
• Chickasaw, 4.6 percent.
• Clay, 5.4 percent.
