County Unemployment Still Over 16%

Winston County ranked 73 out of 82 counties with an unemployment rate of 16.3% and a seasonally adjusted rate of 16%. Clay county had the highest rate of unemployment in the state at 20.1. Noxubee County also has one of the highest unemployment rates at 18.7%.

While the rate is more than 3 percentage points lower than July of 2010 (19.5%); this is the 3rd summer in a row that Winston County has experienced double digit unemployment.The Mississippi Department of Employment Security indicates that 1200 people actively looking for work were unemployed in Winston County in July.