Greene County Has Second Highest Unemployment Rate In July

School being out in July and other seasonal changes are being blamed for an increase in umemployment in nearly all counties in Tennessee last month.

Unemployment rates increased in July for 92 of Tennessee’s 95 counties. Rates remained the same in the other three counties. Fifty-five counties reported unemployment rates of less than 5%. The other 40 counties had rates of 5% or greater. That inludes Greene County, which had the second highest unemployment rate in the state at 6.8%. That’s an increase of 1.3% from June. Weakley County in West Tennessee had the highest unemployment rate in the state at 8.5%.

Cocke County’s unemployment rate sits at 5.5%, up from 5.1% in June. Cokce County’s unemployment rate in July of 2024 was 4.9%. Hamblen County and Jefferson County unemployment rates were up as well in July. Hamblen County at 4.7% and Jefferson at 4.2%

Sevier County had the state’s lowest rate for the second month in a row. At 3.3%, the rate was one-tenth of a percentage point higher than in June.

The state of Tennessee’s seasonally adjusted unemployment sits at 3.6% for July. Individually county numbers are NOT seasonally adjusted.