Anderson Jobless Rate Drops; S.C. Adjusted Rate Rises

Anderson County's unemployment rate fell to 5.9 percent in September, after a jump to 6.3 percent in August. It is the first drop in unemployment since April in Anderson County, which boasts the fifth lowest jobless rate in the South Carolina.

Jobless rates either went down or were unchanged in all of South Carolina's 46 counties, according to state officials. But those numbers are not seasonally adjusted, so they can't be directly compared with the state unemployment rate.

The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate increased to 6.6 percent in September from a revised August level of 6.3 percent. The number of unemployed persons was 144,388, an increase of 6,437 over  the month. The number of South Carolinians working ticked up by 2,527 people to 2,038,393. Over the month, the labor force increased by 8,964 people to a level of 2,182,781. 

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