Chattanooga jobless rate edges up to 6.3 percent in July

August 27, 2015 at 4:15 p.m. | Updated August 27, 2015 at 4:17 p.m.

by Dave Flessner

In this April 2, 2015, photo, David Dunn from Chickamauga, Ga., right, stands in line with hundreds of other job seekers at The Colonnade in Ringgold, Ga., to attend a huge 15-county job fair. Payroll processor ADP reports how many jobs private employers added in May on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP) THE DAILY CITIZEN OUT; NOOGA.COM OUT; CLEVELAND DAILY BANNER OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT
In this April 2, 2015, photo, David Dunn from Chickamauga, Ga., right, stands in line with hundreds of other job seekers at The Colonnade in Ringgold, Ga., to attend a huge 15-county job fair. Payroll processor ADP reports how many jobs private employers added in May on Wednesday, June 3, 2015. (Dan Henry/Chattanooga Times Free Press via AP) THE DAILY CITIZEN OUT; NOOGA.COM OUT; CLEVELAND DAILY BANNER OUT; LOCAL INTERNET OUT

Unemployment in the Chattanooga area edged up by a tenth of a percentage point during July to 6.3 percent, the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said today.

The jobless rate in the 6-county Chattanooga area last month, 6.3 percent, was seven tenths of a percentage point above the comparable U.S. unemployment rate of 5.6 percent last month.

But Chattanooga employers are still adding jobs at a healthy 2.7 percent growth rate in the past year. Employers in metropolitan Chattanooga added 6,310 jobs from July 2014 to July 2015 to cut the jobless rate in the metropolitan area by 1.2 percentage points from a year ago.

In Hamilton County, the jobless rate last month rose a tenth of a pecent to 6.2 percent.

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