Webster County’s unemployment rate remained at 5.9% in September, according to figures released by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security.
The county’s jobless rate was also 5. 9% in August, as revised, and 4.3% in September 2018.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for September came in 2009, when it reached 15.4%. The lowest rate for that period was in 1998, when it dropped to 4%.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in September remained unchanged at 230. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 20 to 3,930.
The state’s non-seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 5.6% in September while the national average, also unadjusted, was 3.3%. Jobless rates in adjoining counties: Calhoun, 5.3 %; Chickasaw, 5.8%; Choctaw, 5.2%; Clay, 7.5%; Grenada, 5.4%; Montgomery, 6.2%; and Oktibbeha, 5.9%.
