Tyler’s Unemployment Better Than the State’s

AUSTIN – Tyler’s unemployment rate continues to run below both the state and national numbers. The state’s seasonally adjusted unemployment rate was 4.0% in January. That is just below the national unemployment rate of 4.1%. The annual employment growth for Texas was 2% in January, marking 93 consecutive months of annual growth. Tyler’s unemployment rate for January was 3.8%, just up from the 3.7% figure in December. Longview’s unemployment rate to start the year was 4.6%, up from 4% in December. But it is still way below the city’s 6.6% unemployment rate in January of last year.