By Hannah Denham

Manufacturing is one major industry in the Mobile metro. (Courtesy of Mobile Chamber of Commerce)Courtesy Mobile Area Chamber of Commerce

Even as the Port City’s economic engine drives job growth, Mobile continues to have the highest unemployment rate of all metro areas in Alabama.

Mobile County’s unemployment rate was 4.4% in February, according to the most recent data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Though that’s a slight dip from 4.5% in January, it’s a spike from the previous year when the rate was 3.1%.

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