More people are unemployed in Cannon County this month. The latest jobless report for November shows unemployment here at 10.1 percent, up four-tenths of a point since the October report. There are 6,660 people in the work force in Cannon County, and 680 were out of work in November. The news was much the same for Cannon County’s neighbors. Warren County’s jobless rate was the highest, at 11 percent, up five-tenths of a point. Coffee County registered at 10.1 percent, up seven-tenths of a point. DeKalb County’s jobless rate was 9.3 percent, up four-tenths of a percent. Rutherford County’s jobless rate rose three-tenths of a point, to 8.4 percent. Wilson County had the lowest rate of any of Cannon County’s neighbors at 8.1 percent, up three-tenths of a point.
Tennessee’s overall unemployment rate for November was 9.4 percent, unchanged from the October rate. The national unemployment rate for November 2010 was 9.8 percent, up two-tenths of a point from October. Tennessee’s jobless rate for November increased in 85 counties, decreased in eight counties and remained the same in two counties.
Lincoln County registered the state’s lowest county unemployment rate at 6.3 percent, up from the October rate of six percent. Scott County had the state’s highest unemployment rate at 19.9 percent. Knox County had the state’s lowest major metropolitan rate of 7.2 percent. Hamilton County was 8.1 percent, Davidson County was 8.7 percent and Shelby County was 9.9 percent.
