Cannon’s Unemployment Rate Decreases During October

County unemployment rates for October 2015, released last week, show the rates decreased in 90 counties, increased in four, and remained the same in one county. Cannon County’s unemployment rate dropped to 5.3 percent from September’s 5.8 percent.  Out of an estimated 6010 people in the workforce, 5700 were employed while just 320 people were unemployed.  Coffee County also showed a decrease of four tenths of a percentage to 5.1 percent while Dekalb decreased to 6.6 percent.  Rutherford’s unemployment rate is 4.3 percent, Warren is at 5.7 percent and Wilson is at 4.4 percent.
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for October was 5.6 percent, down one tenth of a percentage point from from the previous month. The U.S. preliminary rate for October was 5.0 percent, also down one tenth of a percentage point from September.