Updated 3/13/20

New data released by the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development shows unemployment increases in nearly all of Tennessee's 95 counties in January 2020.

In Giles County, the rate increased from 4.0 in December 2019 to 5.2 in January 2020.

The county had a total of 797 people unemployed in January.

Ninety-four counties experienced some level of increase during the first month of the year. Meigs County is the only county in the state where unemployment remained unchanged in January.

Unemployment rates are below 5% in 59 counties. The rate is 5% or greater, but less than 10%, in 36 counties.

Unlike the statewide unemployment rate, county rates are not seasonally adjusted.

Statewide, January is the fifth consecutive month Tennessee recorded an unemployment rate of 3.3%.

Nationally, the seasonally adjusted unemployment rate did increase between December and January by 0.1 percentage point to the new rate of 3.6%.