Statewide, Tennessee continued to experience near-record low unemployment in April. All 95 counties in Tennessee reported lower unemployment in April and each county had a rate below 5%.
Cumberland County’s April jobless rate was 3.1 percent, down 0.6 percent from March.
Warren County had a 3.0 percent unemployment rate for April; down 1.0 percent from the previous month.
White County’s April unemployment rate was 2.8 percent; down 0.6 percent from March.
Bledsoe County had the state’s highest rate. But, the new 4.6% was down 0.7 of a percentage point from March.
Statewide, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate dropped to 3.3%, down 0.1 of a percentage point from March’s rate. It is also just above Tennessee’s all-time lowest unemployment rate of 3.2%.
Across the country, seasonally adjusted unemployment also decreased in April, down 0.1 of a percentage point to 3.4%.
