Texas County’s unemployment rate was down in October, reports the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
The figure was 8 percent, which was down three-tenths of a percentage point from August.
The average in south-central Missouri was 8.2 percent.
Area counties and their jobless rates: Douglas, 8.1 percent; Howell, 7.5; Shannon, 11.8; and Wright, 8.5.