January 19, 2024 – The State of Texas Unemployment final tally is in for December 2023 and shows that Hopkins County continues to have the lowest unemployment rate for the NorthEast Texas Workforce Development Area (WDA) that contains nine counties. Hopkins County reported a 2.7% rate of workers looking for jobs which proved to be 499 hopeful applicants out of the labor force of 18,629. The county with the highest rate in our WDA for December was Cass County with 4.3%.
The State of Texas continues to hold steady with an unemployment rate of 3.5% as it has for several months. That 3.5% average has held at the same level for our nine-county WDA as well. Hopkins County unemployment has gone down steadily since December 2022 with a rate of 3.9%
