{"id":13223,"date":"2017-11-25T22:00:57","date_gmt":"2017-11-26T04:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=13223"},"modified":"2017-11-24T18:23:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-25T00:23:40","slug":"unemployment-rates-in-nearly-all-tennessee-counties-remained-under-5-0-percent-in-october","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2017\/11\/25\/unemployment-rates-in-nearly-all-tennessee-counties-remained-under-5-0-percent-in-october\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment Rates In Nearly All Tennessee Counties Remained Under 5.0 Percent In October"},"content":{"rendered":"

State Continues to Experience Record Low Unemployment  <\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– Nearly all Tennessee counties continued to have unemployment rates below 5.0 percent in October 2017, following a record-breaking September when, for the first time ever, each of the state\u2019s 95 counties experienced a rate below 5.0 percent.<\/p>\n

October marked the fifth consecutive month Tennessee\u2019s statewide unemployment rate was in record territory, matching the all-time low of 3.0 percent set the month before.<\/p>\n

\"Tennessee<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cTo have so many counties under 5.0 percent unemployment, as we head into the holiday season, is a good thing,\u201d said Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Burns Phillips.  \u201cIt means more Tennesseans are able to provide for their families and that is the goal of Governor Haslam\u2019s workforce initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n

Williamson and Davidson Counties continue to have Tennessee\u2019s lowest unemployment rates at 2.2 percent.  Williamson County\u2019s rate increased by 0.1 percent in October, while Davidson County\u2019s rate held steady compared to the previous month.  Rutherford County\u2019s rate was also unchanged at 2.3 percent.  <\/p>\n

Cheatham, Wilson, Moore, and Sumner Counties each had a rate of 2.4 percent.  That represents at 0.1 percent increase for Cheatham, Wilson and Sumner Counties and 0.1 percent decease for Moore County.  Sevier County\u2019s unemployment rate remained at 2.5 percent in October.  Knox County increased by 0.1 percent to 2.6 percent and Smith County\u2019s rate remained the same at 2.6 percent.   <\/p>\n

 While two counties saw an increase above the 5.0 percent threshold, their rates are still below 5.5 percent.  Rhea County has the state\u2019s highest unemployment at 5.4 percent, up from 4.9 percent in September.  Lauderdale County\u2019s rate increased to 5.3 percent, from 4.6 percent the previous month.<\/p>\n

Looking at the entire state, October unemployment rates decreased in four counties, remained the same in seven counties and increased in 84 counties.  Ninety-three of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties continue to have unemployment rates below 5.0 percent.<\/p>\n

The statewide unemployment rate is seasonally adjusted, while the county rates are not.  Seasonal adjustment is a statistical technique that eliminates the influences of weather, holidays, the opening and closing of schools and other recurring seasonal events from an economic time series.\u200b<\/p>\n

Unemployment data for each of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties is available here<\/a> and additional information about the state\u2019s labor statistics can be found at Jobs4TN.gov<\/a><\/p>\n

The November 2017 statewide unemployment rate will be released on Thursday, December 21st, 2017 at 1:30pm CT.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

State Continues to Experience Record Low Unemployment   Nashville, TN – Nearly all Tennessee counties continued to have unemployment rates below 5.0 percent in October 2017, following a record-breaking September when, for the first time ever, each of the state\u2019s 95 counties experienced a rate below 5.0 percent. October marked the fifth consecutive month Tennessee\u2019s statewide […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[8032,2368,1907,1636,3538,3696,284,4244,2836,921,2837,261,870,2590,1903,4212,5455],"class_list":["post-13223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-burns-phillips","tag-cheatham-county","tag-davidson-county","tag-knox-county","tag-lauderdale-county","tag-moore-county","tag-nashville-tn","tag-rhea-county","tag-rutherford-county","tag-sevier-county","tag-sumner-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-unemployment-rate","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-williamson-county","tag-wilson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13223"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13224,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13223\/revisions\/13224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}