DeSoto County’s unemployment rate for October is listed by the Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) as 2.7 percent, the fifth-lowest rate among Mississippi counties.
The four counties above DeSoto County are Lafayette (2.4), Lamar (2.5), Rankin (2.5) and Madison (2.6).
The statewide unemployment for October is 3.4 percent, the same as the national unemployment rate. Other nearby counties include Tate (3.2), Marshall (3.5), and Tunica (4.4).
The preliminary October figures show DeSoto County has 92,260 residents employed and 2,600 listed as not employed. The 2.7 percent unemployment rate is lower than September’s 2.9 percent jobless figure, MDES said, and is also lower than October of last year, when 3.3 percent of the workforce was not working.
Over the past five years, October’s unemployment figure in DeSoto County has ranged from the 2022 figure of 2.7 percent to 4.7 percent in the COVID-19 pandemic year of 2020.
Bob Bakken provides content for DeSoto County News and its social media channels. He is an award-winning broadcaster, along with being a reporter and photographer, and has done sports media relations work with junior and minor league hockey teams. Along with his reports on this website, you will find this veteran media member providing sports updates and high school football play-by-play on Rebel 95.3 FM Radio.
