County unemployment rates for September show the rate decreased in 94 counties and increased in only one. Fayette County in west Tennessee experienced a slight increase of one tenth of a percentage point.
Coffee County had a good month dropping from 7.0 percent to 6.1.
Warren County’s unemployment rate for September was 6.8 percent, which is down a full percentage point from the August rate of 7.8 percent. Bedford County fell from 7.1% to 6.3. Franklin County dropped a full point to 5.5%. Down in Moore County they fell from 6.2% to 5.4. In Grundy County the unemployment rate went from 8.7 in August to 7.7 in September, and Cannon County the percentage went from 6.6 to 5.6.
Lincoln County had the state’s lowest unemployment at 4.6 percent. Scott County had the highest at 12.3 percent.
Unemployment Rate Down In Coffee County
