Cannon County’s unemployment rate for December is 5.3 percent, unchanged from November’s unemployment rate. Out of an estimated work force of 6,070 people, 5,740 people are employed while 320 are unemployed. Most of the surrounding counties reported a small change from November. Coffee Counties dropped one tenth of a percentage point to 5.1 percent. Dekalb County is at 6.7 percent, Rutherford is at 4 percent while Warren’s unemployment rate comes in at 5.3 percent. Wilson County is the second lowest unemployment rate of the the surrounding counties at 4.3 percent. Last year’s unemployment rate at this time was at 5.7 percent in Cannon County
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for December was 5.6 percent, up one-tenth of a percentage point from the previous month’s revised rate. The U.S. preliminary rate for December was 5.0 percent, unchanged from November.
