October unemployment rate for Dougherty County
DOUGHERTY COUNTY, GA - The Georgia Department of Labor announced Thursday that Southwest Georgia's preliminary unemployment rate declined to 8.9 percent in October.
That is one-tenth of a percentage point from the 9 percent in September and in October 2011 the rate was 9.7 percent.
Georgia's October seasonally adjusted unemployment rate declined to 8.7 percent, which was down three-tenths of a percentage point from the September rate of 9 percent. The October 2011 jobless rate was 9.7 percent.





