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Unemployment Rate (Percent) – 2011

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Scale: 6.6% - 19.0%


Mississippi	10.5%
Adams	10.6%
Alcorn	11.8%
Amite	11.8%
Attala	13.1%
Benton	14.5%
Bolivar	11.6%
Calhoun	10.3%
Carroll	10.1%
Chickasaw	12.8%
Choctaw	11.6%
Claiborne	15.6%
Clarke	12.5%
Clay	18.7%
Coahoma	15.0%
Copiah	11.9%
Covington	9.3%
DeSoto	8.0%
Forrest	10.4%
Franklin	11.8%
George	12.9%
Greene	13.3%
Grenada	11.2%
Hancock	10.1%
Harrison	9.7%
Hinds	9.5%
Holmes	18.5%
Humphreys	16.1%
Issaquena	17.1%
Itawamba	11.1%
Jackson	11.2%
Jasper	12.1%
Jefferson	16.7%
Jefferson Davis	13.2%
Jones	8.5%
Kemper	14.0%
Lafayette	8.8%
Lamar	8.0%
Lauderdale	11.2%
Lawrence	12.4%
Leake	11.8%
Lee	10.6%
Leflore	14.3%
Lincoln	10.9%
Lowndes	11.6%
Madison	7.4%
Marion	11.3%
Marshall	13.0%
Monroe	13.0%
Montgomery	13.3%
Neshoba	8.7%
Newton	10.0%
Noxubee	17.9%
Oktibbeha	10.9%
Panola	13.1%
Pearl River	11.0%
Perry	11.8%
Pike	12.5%
Pontotoc	9.9%
Prentiss	11.7%
Quitman	14.3%
Rankin	6.6%
Scott	8.7%
Sharkey	13.1%
Simpson	9.6%
Smith	10.0%
Stone	9.6%
Sunflower	16.3%
Tallahatchie	12.9%
Tate	11.2%
Tippah	13.4%
Tishomingo	12.9%
Tunica	19.0%
Union	11.0%
Walthall	12.9%
Warren	11.6%
Washington	15.6%
Wayne	12.2%
Webster	13.8%
Wilkinson	12.4%
Winston	15.1%
Yalobusha	11.9%
Yazoo	12.9%

Definitions: According to the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, "unemployed persons (Current Population Survey) [are] persons aged 16 years and older who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment sometime during the 4-week period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed. Unemployment rate…represents the number unemployed as a percent of the labor force."

Data Source: U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS). Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Annual Average, “Unemployment rates for states, [Year]” and “Labor force data by county, [Year] annual averages”.

Available at: http://www.bls.gov/lau/home.htm

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