Franklin, Hopkins Counties Continue To Have Lowest Area October 2021 Unemployment Rates
Franklin and Hopkins counties continued to have the lowest October 2021 unemployment rates in the nine-county Northeast Texas Workforce Development Area, both less than 4% each. Franklin County for the fourth consecutive month had the lowest unemployment rate of 3.8%, with 201 of the 5,269 work force reported to be unemployed as of the October 2021 Texas Labor Market Information data released Friday, Nov. 19, 2021. That’s down...
September 2021 Unemployment Rates Below State Average In Only 3 Counties In NET Workforce Development Area
Unemployment on average continued to decline, although by less than 1 percent, across the state last month as was the case for all except one county in Northeast Texas Workforce Development Area. Franklin, Hopkins and Delta were the only counties in the nine-county Northeast Texas WDA with September 2021 unemployment rates below the state average of 4.9 percent, according to the Local Area Unemployment Statistics report published by...
Hopkins County Unemployment Rate Dips During August 2021
Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar Counties Jobless Rates Remain Below State Average The unemployment rate in Hopkins County dipped slightly during August 2021, and Franklin County continued ahead of Hopkins County for the second consecutive month in a row with the lowest unemployment rate in the Northeast Texas/Texarkana Workforce Development Area, according to the Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Labor Market Index data released...
Franklin County Has Lowest July 2021 Unemployment Rate In Area
Hopkins County Falls to 2nd By Narrow Margin After an extended period, Hopkins County can no longer claim to have the lowest jobless rate in the Northeast Texas/Texarkana Workforce Development Area. Franklin County unseated Hopkins County lst month for that, but Hopkins County is a close second with only 0.1 separating the two counties’ July 2021 unemployment rates, according to the latest Local Area Unemployment Statistics...
Hopkins, Franklin Counties Had Lowest June 2021 Unemployment Rate In Area
Hopkins and Franklin counties both had an unemployment rate of 5.3 percent last month, the lowest June 2021 unemployment rate in the Northeast Texas area. While it’s not uncommon for Hopkins County to have the lowest unemployment rate with Franklin County a close second, but June 2021 was the first time Franklin matched Hopkins for lowest unemployment rate, according to the latest employment numbers released Friday, July 16,...
Unemployment Rate In Hopkins County Declined Slightly In May 2021
The unemployment rate in Hopkins County declined slightly in May 2021, as did the overall employment rate across Northeast Texas and the state, according to Texas Labor Market Index and Texas Workforce Commission. WorkforceDevelopmentAreaMay 2021RateApril 2021RateMay 2020RateTexas5.96.411.8North East Texas5.96.29.2Bowie6.06.310.6Cass7.17.69.6Delta5.35.07.4Franklin4.75.26.9Hopkins4.54.86.9Lamar5.86.18.9Morris10.511.411.9Red...
Hopkins County Continues To Have Lowest Unemployment Rate In Workforce Area
Although Hopkins County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate in the Northeast Texas/Texarkana Workforce Development Area, February 2021 marked at least the fifth consecutive month the unemployment rate has risen in the county as has been the case for the state and 9-county WDA to which Hopkins belongs. Texas Workforce Commission and Texas Labor Market Information reports show fluctuations in Texas’ labor force over the...
Unemployment Rate Up In Hopkins County In January, But Still Lowest In NET Workforce Area
Unemployment rose slightly in Hopkins County from December 2020 to January 2021, but Hopkins County’s 5.4 percent unemployment rate was still the lowest in the Northeast Texas Workforce Development Area in January 2021. That’s also below the state unemployment rate of 7.3 percent and WDA unemployment rate of 7.1 percent. According to Texas Work Force Commission and Texas Labor Market Index’s Local Area Unemployment...
Hopkins County Continued To Have Lowest Unemployment Rate In Area In December
Hopkins County continued to have the lowest unemployment rate in the area, 1.8 percent lower than the state average and 1.6 lower than the average for the Northeast Texas workforce area, according to the Texas Labor Market Information and Texas Workforce Commission. While the unemployment rate fell from 5.8 in November 2020 to back to the 5.3 percent of October 2020, the December 2020 unemployment rate was still nearly twice the 2.8...
While Unemployment Rates Rose In November 2020, Hopkins County Still Had The Lowest Jobless Rate In The Area
While unemployment rates rose in November 2020, Hopkins County still had the lowest jobless rate in the 9-county Northeast Texas Workforce Development Area last month, according to the civilian labor force estimates released this month by TWC, produced in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Labor’s Bureau of Labor Statistics, and posted on the Texas Labor Market Information website,. Hopkins County’s unemployment rate rose...
