The end of seasonal work at the start of the new year was one of the contributing factors that led to higher county unemployment rates in each of Tennessee’s 95 counties in January. Eighty-five counties reported rates less than 5%, while the remaining ten counties had rates of 5% or greater, but less than 10%.
Cumberland County’s January 2022 unemployment rate was 4.9 percent, up 0.8 percent from the December 2021 rate of 4.1 percent. For the year, Cumberland County’s January 2022 rate went down 1.8 percent from the January 2021 jobless rate of 6.7 percent.
Statewide, January’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate of 3.5% was the lowest it has been since November 2019. It was down 0.1 of a percentage point from December’s revised rate of 3.6%.
Across the nation, seasonally adjusted unemployment for January increased slightly from 3.9% to 4%.