Cumberland County’s December unemployment rate fell 0.4% to 4.1%, a slight decline from November’s 4.5%. In a year-to-year comparison, December’s jobless rate dropped 0.8% in Cumberland County.
All but four of Tennessee’s 95 counties recorded unemployment rates below 5% in December.
Williamson and Cheatham counties reported the lowest unemployment rates in December at 2.6%.
Maury County’s unemployment rate of 5.7% was the highest in Tennessee last month. That rate was up 2.4 percentage points over November.
Tennessee’s statewide unemployment rate in December was 3.6%.