The Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD) has announced that every Tennessee county recorded an unemployment rate of 5% or less in May.
Ninety-four of the state’s 95 counties had unemployment rates below 5%, and one county — Hardeman County in southwestern Tennessee — had a rate of 5%.
Unemployment rates decreased from April to May in three counties. Rates increased in 92 counties.
Williamson County reported the lowest unemployment rate in May at 2.6%, up four-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.
- Bledsoe County was 2.5 percent in April, but went up to 2.9 percent in May
- Grundy County rose from 3.6 to 4.1 percent.
- Hamilton County went from 2.7 to 3.1 percent.
- Marion and Sequatchie counties jumped from 3.3 percent in April to 3.9 percent in May.
