August unemployment

The jobless rate fell during August across Southeast Tennessee and Northwest Georgia counties.

Tennessee

› Bradley — 3.5 percent, down 0.6 percent

› Hamilton — 3.6 percent, down

0.4 percent

› McMinn — 4.1 percent, down 0.5 percent

› Polk — 4.2 percent, down 0.7 percent

› Marion — 4.7 percent, down 0.6

percent

› Grundy — 4.7 percent, down 1.5

percent

› Meigs — 4.9 percent, down 0.7

percent

› Sequatchie — 5 percent, down

1.2 percent

› Bledsoe — 5.3 percent, down

1.3 percent

Georgia

› Catoosa — 4.1 percent, down

0.4 percent

› Dade — 4.3 percent, down 0.8 percent

› Walker — 4.6 percent, down 0.2

percent

› Chattooga — 4.9 percent, down 0.1 percent

› Whitfield — 5.1 percent, down 0.2 percent

› Murray — 5.6 percent, down 0.2 percent

Sources: Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development, Georgia Department of Labor