County unemployment rates for September 2015, released last week, show the rates decreased in 29 counties, increased in 42, and remained the same in 24 counties. Cannon County saw a increase in their unemployment rate for the month of September. Out of an estimated workforce of 5970 people, 5630 were employed while 350 people were unemployed. This set the unemployment rate of Cannon County to 5.8 percent which is two tenths of a percentage point higher than the August rate of 5.6 percent. Three surrounding counties, Dekalb, Coffee and Wilson County all increased in percentages when it came to the unemployment rate. Rutherford County decreased while Warren County’s unemployment rate stayed the same. Last year at this time Cannon’s unemployment rate was at 6.2 percent
Tennessee’s preliminary unemployment rate for September was 5.7 percent, unchanged from the previous month. The U.S. preliminary rate for September was 5.1 percent, the same as it was for August.
