Webster County’s unemployment rate remained unchanged at 4.6 percent in April.
The county’s jobless rate as revised by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security was also 4.6 percent in March. April’s rate was up from 4.4 percent in April 2017.
MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for April came in 1991, when it reached 17.5 percent. The lowest rate for that period was in 1999, when it dropped to 4 percent.
The number of unemployed Webster Countians in April remained the same at 180. The labor force, which is made up of everyone who has a job or is looking for one, increased by 30 to 3,940.
The state’s seasonally unadjusted unemployment rate was 4.2 percent in April while the national average was 3.7 percent, also unadjusted. Rankin County posted the lowest unemployment rate for the month at 3.1 percent while Jefferson had the highest at 10.5 percent.
April jobless rates in adjoining counties:
• Grenada, 3.8 percent.
• Calhoun, 3.9 percent.
• Oktibbeha, 4 percent.
• Choctaw, 4.3 percent.
• Chickasaw, 4.4 percent.
• Montgomery, 4.6 percent.
• Clay, 5.2 percent.
