Regional unemployment rate dips below 4 percent

Among Tennessee’s larger cities, Lebanon’s rate for November, at 5.1 percent, is an increase of 0.1 percent from October and decreased 0.5 percent from the same time past year.

Employment was 49,130 in November, up from 48,749 in October and from 48,192 last November.

Those regions report unemployment rates at or below the nationally seasonally unadjusted rate of 4.8 percent.

The newest round of unemployment data is actually from November.

For the third consecutive month, the unemployment rate in Webster County has remained the same, based on figures provided by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security. Chief Economist Bill Anderson said Nevada has added 30,900 jobs over the past year, a growth rate of 2.5 percent. MDES statistics from 1990 forward show the county’s highest unemployment rate for November came in 1995, when it reached 17.3 percent. However, the Department of Labor increased the estimated local work force from 7,910 to 7,970 while bumping up the number of unemployed Scott Countians from 670 to 740.

Nashville continued to show the way as the state’s least unemployed metropolitan area, with a jobless rate of 4.2 percent in Davidson County.

Hampton Roads: 4.5 percent, down from 4.6 percent. Other southeastern counties were Columbus 7.3, Cumberland 7.1, Duplin 5.5, Onslow 5.9, Pender6.1, Robeson 8.1 and Sampson 5.5.

Harrisonburg: 3.9 percent, down from 4.1 percent.

Winchester: 3.6 percent, down from 3.7 percent.