Share State, Local Unemployment Rates Improve Slightly In Dec. Local and statewide unemployment rates were down in December compared to November's rates, but still significantly higher than the pre-pandemic rates a year earlier. Hill County's December unemployment rate was reported at 6.3% when the Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) released its monthly data last week. That is down from November's rate of 6.8%, but up from the December 2019 rate of 3%. December's data shows that there were 1,032 unemployed Hill County residents out of a total labor force of 16,508 for the month. Overall, the Texas unemployment rate for December 2020 was 7.2 percent, down from 8.1 percent in November 2020.