Tennessee Commissioner of Labor & Workforce Development Karla Davis announced last week that Tennessee’s unemployment rate for July was 9.8 percent, unchanged from the June revised rate.DeKalb County's unemployment rate for July dropped to 9.7%, down from 10.3% in June. The rate for July, 2010 was 9.4%The Labor Force in DeKalb County for July was at 10,150. A total of 9,160 were employed and 980 were unemployed.DeKalb County's unemployment rate for July was third lowest among the fourteen counties of the Upper Cumberland region.