Indicator · us-unemployment-rate

Unemployment rate

By where people live; 2025 averages 11 months, as BLS does, since October was not collected.

Unit
%
Places
3,221 counties in 2025
Built from
Local area unemployment (LAUS)
Reading it
Lower is better.

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Median county, 1990–2025

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The middle value of every county with data that year. 2025: 4.0%.
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Highest and lowest in 2025

Highest
Maricao Municipio, PR 26.5%
Imperial County, CA 18.9%
Kusilvak Census Area, AK 17.4%
Guánica Municipio, PR 17.3%
Las Marías Municipio, PR 15.1%
Lowest
Loving County, TX 0.6%
Brule County, SD 1.4%
Hyde County, SD 1.5%
Harding County, SD 1.5%
Tripp County, SD 1.5%

How it is computed

LAUS, annual average unemployed / annual average labor force, not seasonally adjusted, from the Local area unemployment (LAUS) dataset on this site. visualizedata.org computes the indicator for every place and year; the full table, the map and each place's history are on its page there. The underlying data, with its source and license, is on the dataset page, with the API and downloads.