Douglas Jobless Rate at 9.3%

Douglas County's unemployment rate increased from 8.5 percent in May to 9.3 percent in June, according to numbers the Georgia Department of Labor released today.

That increase mirrored an uptick across metro Atlanta, where the unemployment rate jumped from 8.2 percent in May to 8.9 percent in June.

In a statement, the Department of Labor attributed the increase to the large numbers of education workers who are unemployed during the summer and new graduates who are considered unemployed until they find a job.

Douglasville's unemployment rate increased from 9.7 percent in May to 10.3 percent in June, according to the Department of Labor. The agency does not list individual statistics for Lithia Springs.

Metro Athens had the lowest area jobless rate in Georgia at 7.2 percent, while the Heart of Georgia-Altamaha region had the highest at 12.9 percent.