Cumberland County’s January unemployment rate was 4.7%, which is 0.5% higher than December but 0.5 % lower than a year ago.
Eighty-four of Tennessee’s 95 counties recorded unemployment rates below 5% in January even as most counties saw an uptick in their rates over the previous month, according to data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD).
Williamson County reported the state’s lowest unemployment rate at 2.7%, which was up one-tenth of a percentage point from its December rate.
Perry County had the state’s highest unemployment rate in January at 11.3%, up 6 percentage points from December.
Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 3.5% in January. That rate was down one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month but is still eight-tenths of a percentage point below the national rate of 4.3%.