Texas County’s unemployment rate improved in March, reports the Missouri Department of Economic Development.
The figure was 8.3 percent, which was down six-tenths of a percentage point from the previous month.
The average figure in south-central Missouri was 8.7 percent.
Area counties and their jobless rates: Douglas, 8.1; Howell, 8; Shannon, 13.8; and Wright, 7.9.