Unemployment Rate Drops in Coffee County

County unemployment rates for January show the rates decreased in 82 counties, increased in 12 and remained the same in one county.
Coffee County’s unemployment rate for January was 4.7 percent, a drop of a half a percentage point from the December rate of 5.2 percent.
Warren County went down from 5.2 to 4.6 percent. Bedford County fell from a December rate of 5.7 percent to 5% in January. Franklin County also saw their unemployment rate fall from 4.9 percent to 4.6%. Grundy County dropped from 7.2 to 6.7 percent. Down in neighboring Moore County the rate dropped from 4.1 percent in December to 3.8 % in January. Cannon County went from 5.3 to 4.8 percent.
Williamson County had the state’s lowest unemployment rate at 3.2 percent, while Houston County had the highest at 8.9 percent.