Cumberland County’s January 2023 unemployment rate was 5.2 percent. That is 0.8 percent higher than December’s rate of 4.4 percent, and 0.1 percent more than January 2022.
According to the Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, the end of seasonal holiday jobs in January can be counted as one of the contributing factors that led to higher county unemployment rates across Tennessee for the month. While statewide unemployment numbers are adjusted to consider the impacts of seasonal labor, county unemployment rates are not adjusted.
Each of Tennessee’s 95 counties experienced an increase in unemployment during January. Eighty counties reported rates less than 5%, while the remaining 15 counties had rates of 5% or greater, but less than 10%.
Statewide, January’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate held steady at 3.5%, the fourth consecutive month at that level.
Across the nation, seasonally adjusted unemployment for January decreased slightly from 3.5% to 3.4%.