{"id":16981,"date":"2020-08-30T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2020-08-30T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2020-08-29T23:11:33","modified_gmt":"2020-08-30T04:11:33","slug":"tennessee-county-unemployment-rates-drop-across-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/2020\/08\/30\/tennessee-county-unemployment-rates-drop-across-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennessee County Unemployment Rates drop across State"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"TennesseeNashville, TN <\/strong>– The unemployment situation in three-quarters of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties continued to improve in July following business closures earlier in the year due to the COVID-19 health emergency.<\/p>\n

Henry County unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in July. That’s down 0.8 percent from June’s 8.9 percent.<\/p>\n

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Seventy-two counties had lower unemployment in July compared to the previous month. Rates in four counties mirrored their rates from June. Nineteen counties did experience a slight uptick in unemployment during the month.<\/p>\n

Pickett County recorded the state\u2019s lowest unemployment rate for the month. At 6.3%, the county\u2019s rate dropped 0.7 of a percentage point compared to June\u2019s rate.<\/p>\n

Williamson and Moore counties had the second-lowest unemployment rates in July. Williamson County\u2019s rate decreased 0.3 of a percentage point to 6.4%. In July 2019, its rate was 2.9%. Moore County\u2019s June rate of 7.5% dropped to 6.4% in July. One year ago, it was 3.5%.<\/p>\n

Shelby County continued to have the highest unemployment rate in Tennessee. The county\u2019s number of jobless individuals in July jumped by 1.3 percentage points to 14.4%. In July 2019, Shelby County\u2019s rate was 4.6%.<\/p>\n

With a rate of 12.7%, Haywood County had the second-highest rate of unemployment in the state. The new rate increased 0.9 of a percentage point when compared to the previous month. One year ago, the rate was 5.3%. Hancock County\u2019s unemployment jumped 1.8 percentage points to 12.5% in July. In July 2019 the county had a rate of 7.3%.<\/p>\n

When surveying unemployment in Tennessee\u2019s three largest cities, Knoxville had the lowest rate in July, which held steady at 9.4%. Nashville\u2019s unemployment saw a slight uptick of 0.1 of a percentage point to 12.1%. Memphis experienced the biggest increase in July. Its unemployment rate grew by 1.6 percentage points to 16.9%. In July 2019, Knoxville had a rate of 3.8%%, Nashville was at 2.9%, and the Memphis rate one year ago was 5.1%<\/p>\n

The statewide seasonally adjusted unemployment rate in Tennessee decreased for the third consecutive month in July from 9.6% to 9.5%.<\/p>\n

Nationally, unemployment also decreased in July. The preliminary, seasonally adjusted national unemployment rate is 10.2%, a 0.9 of a percentage point drop from the previous month\u2019s rate.<\/p>\n

The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development has a comprehensive report detailing the unemployment situation in each of the state\u2019s 95 counties. You can access that report by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nashville, TN – The unemployment situation in three-quarters of Tennessee\u2019s 95 counties continued to improve in July following business closures earlier in the year due to the COVID-19 health emergency. Henry County unemployment rate was 8.1 percent in July. That’s down 0.8 percent from June’s 8.9 percent.<\/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":[12675,12712,6153,3537,3105,1619,1900,3696,549,284,4773,925,261,870,1903,4212],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","tag-coronavirus","tag-covid-19","tag-hancock-county","tag-haywood-county","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-tn","tag-montgomery-county","tag-moore-county","tag-nashville","tag-nashville-tn","tag-pickett-county","tag-shelby-county","tag-tennessee","tag-tennessee-department-of-labor-and-workforce-development","tag-unemployment-rate","tag-williamson-county"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981","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=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16982,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions\/16982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.paristn.net\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}