{"id":16250,"date":"2020-05-29T12:42:34","date_gmt":"2020-05-29T17:42:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16250"},"modified":"2020-05-28T22:29:34","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T03:29:34","slug":"tennessee-county-unemployment-rates-reach-historic-highs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/05\/29\/tennessee-county-unemployment-rates-reach-historic-highs\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee County Unemployment Rates Reach Historic Highs"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN<\/strong> – Statistics released today by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development show a staggering increase in unemployment for each of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties in April as many businesses closed to help slow the spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus.<\/p>\n

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The unprecedented and historic spike in unemployment impacted some counties more drastically than others, but no area of Tennessee escaped the pandemic\u2019s effect on the state\u2019s workforce.<\/p>\n

Henry County’s unemployment rate jumped up to 14.7 percent in April, up 10.4 percent from March’s 4.3 percent.<\/p>\n

Fayette County had Tennessee\u2019s lowest unemployment rate in April. At 9.4%, the county\u2019s rate increased by 6.1 percentage points when compared to its revised March rate of 3.3%<\/p>\n

Weakley County had the second-lowest unemployment rate for the month at 9.6%, followed by Hardeman County at 9.7%.<\/p>\n

Fayette, Weakley, and Hardeman were the only counties in the state with unemployment rates below 10% in April.<\/p>\n

Sevier County recorded Tennessee\u2019s highest unemployment rate for the month. The county\u2019s new jobless figure of 29.5% represents a staggering spike of 26 percentage points when compared to its revised March rate of 3.5%.<\/p>\n

Neighboring Cocke County had the second-highest jobless rate in April at 25.6%, a 20.9 percentage point increase from the previous month. Grundy County ranked third-highest with a rate of 25.3%, which is a 21.1 percentage point spike when compared to March\u2019s rate.<\/p>\n

When comparing Tennessee\u2019s three largest cities, Nashville had the highest unemployment rate in April. The city\u2019s rate of 15.9% is a 13.5 percentage point increase over its revised March rate of 2.4%. Memphis recorded a rate of 14.3%, a spike of 10.1 percentage points from the previous month, and Knoxville\u2019s April rate of 14.7% is an 11.8 percentage point jump.<\/p>\n

Statewide, unemployment reached a historic high in April. The seasonally adjusted rate of 14.7% surpassed the previous all-time high figure of 12.9% in January 1983.<\/p>\n

Unlike the statewide unemployment rate, county unemployment statistics are not seasonally adjusted.<\/p>\n

A complete in-depth analysis of unemployment data for each of Tennessee\u2019s counties is available here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – Statistics released today by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development show a staggering increase in unemployment for each of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties in April as many businesses closed to help slow the spread of COVID-19 Coronavirus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[2369,12675,12712,2771,6151,2772,6593,2716,1619,549,284,921,261,870,11621,3694,201],"class_list":["post-16250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-cocke-county","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-fayette-county","tag-grundy-county","tag-hardeman-county","tag-hentry-county","tag-knoxville-tn","tag-memphis-tn","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-sevier-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-tennessee-employment","tag-unemployment","tag-weakley-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16250"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16251,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16250\/revisions\/16251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}