Newly released unemployment data from the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development for May 2019 shows unemployment rates for nearly every county in the state are below 5 percent for the month.
Ninety-one counties have unemployment rates lower than 5 percent and four counties have a rate of 5 percent or higher in May.
Cannon County’s rate increased less than half a percent going from 2.4 in April to 2.8 in May.
While Tennessee continued to experience low unemployment in May, 90 of the state’s counties did see a slight uptick in their rates, one county remained the same, and unemployment dropped in four counties.
At 2.2 percent, Williamson County currently has the state’s lowest unemployment rate. That represents a 0.3 of a percentage point increase when compared to April. Davidson County also experienced an uptick in its unemployment rate, increasing from 2 percent in April to 2.3 percent in May.