West Virginia's unemployment rate in January was the lowest on record for the month despite an increase in the number of jobless residents.

Workforce West Virginia said that the unemployment rate rose seven-tenths of a percentage point to four-point-nine percent. The number of jobless residents increased by 51-hundred to 38-thousand-700.

The agency said goods-producing sector lost 39-hundred jobs, including 36-hundred seasonal construction jobs, while the service-providing sector lost 16-thousand-300 jobs.

Job losses in the service-providing sector included 53-hundred in trade, transportation and utilities, 33-hundred in government, 31-hundred in leisure and hospitality, 23-hundred in professional and business services and two-thousand in educational and health services.

January's seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell nine-tenths of a percentage point to three-point-nine percent. The national jobless rate dipped two-tenths of a percentage point to four-point-seven percent.