Unemployment declined last month in metropolitan Chattanooga to 6.1 percent, the lowest rate since April.
The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development said today that the jobless rate in the 6-county Chattanooga area in November was down by a tenth of a percent from October.
Most of the decline reflected a drop in the size of the workforce, not an increase in employment, however, and Chattanooga’s jobless rate remained above the U.S. rate of 5.8 percent last month.
The jobless rate remained lowest in the Northwest Georgia counties of metro Chattanooga with a combined 5.1 percent unemployment rate during November.
The November jobless rate was 6.4 percent in Hamilton County, up by two-tenths of a percent from October. The jobless rate in Marion County last month was 6.9 percent, up from 7.4 percent in October, and was unchanged in Marion County at 6.8 percent
Statewide, the jobless rate in November increased in 63 counties, fell in 18 counties and remained the same in 14 counties.