Texas County’s unemployment rate jumped in November, reports the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
The figure was 4.2 percent, up eight-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.
Employment numbered 9,075. The report listed unemployed at 385.
Other counties and their unemployment rates: Dent, 3.4; Phelps, 3.0; Shannon, 5.5; Howell, 4.2; Wright, 5.4; Douglas, 4.6; Laclede, 8.5; and Pulaski, 4.1.