Cumberland County’s May unemployment rate was 3.8%, unchanged from April. It was down 0.3% from last year.
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) reports 94 of Tennessee’s 95 counties reported May unemployment rates below 5%. Perry County was the only county whose unemployment rate was above 5% in May. At 5.3%, the rate was the same as last month.
Williamson County reported the state’s lowest unemployment rate for May at 2.4%, down three-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.
For the fourth month in a row, Tennessee’s statewide unemployment rate was 3.6% in May.
