County unemployment rates for February 2015, released today, show the rates decreased in 95 counties. In Cannon County out of an estimated 5,860 people 5,510 people were employed while 350 people were unemployed. That brought the February unemployment rate to 6 percent which is one whole percentage point lower than the January rate of 7 percent. Surrounding counties Coffee County went from 6.7 percent in January to 5.8 percent in February. Dekalb also decreased 8-tenths of a percentage point to 7.8 percent. Rutherford has the lowest unemployment rate of all surrounding counties with 4.7 percent Warren is now at 6.4 percent while Wilson also dropped to 5.1 percent
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for February was 6.6 percent, one-tenth of one percentage point lower than the January revised rate of 6.7 percent. The U.S. preliminary rate for February was 5.5 percent, down two-tenths of one percentage point from the prior month.
