Texas County’s unemployment rate continued to show improvement in May as the jobless rate dropped to 5.5 percent, reports the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
That’s a decrease of three-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.
In the south-central region, the average was 5.5 percent.
The county’s civilian work force was 9,539 with 526 unemployed.
Area counties and their unemployment rates were: Douglas, 5.4; Howell, 5.9; Shannon, 6.6; and Wright, 5.1.