After months of gradually rising toward the 14 percent mark, the unemployment rate for Surry County, NC has finally dropped. As reported by Mt. Airy News on April 28

"The state’s Employment Security Commission released a report last week showing that the unemployment rate in the county dropped by 1.2 percentage points, from 13.6 in February to 12.4 percent in March. This brings the county’s jobless rate closer to December’s percentage of 12.3 percent, which then rose to 13.2 percent in January." "Surry County’s drop followed a statewide trend, as all 100 counties saw a drop in the jobless rate. State employment is down by almost one percentage point, from 11.8 to 10.9 percent." Source: Mt. Airy News, April 28, 2010