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Unemployment rate, US states

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Darker amber is a higher unemployment rate. Puerto Rico is listed in the ranking and table but is not on this map.

A typical published area has an unemployment rate of 4.9 percent, the midpoint of the 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on the 2023 ACS five-year estimates. Nevada has the highest rate among the 50 states at 6.8 percent, followed by California at 6.4 percent and Louisiana at 6.3 percent. North Dakota is the lowest at 2.8 percent. Puerto Rico, which this table also returns, sits at 12.1 percent. Nevada is 4.0 percentage points above North Dakota. These are each area's own unemployment rate (unemployed divided by the civilian labor force), not a national average of states.

4.9%typical published areathe middle area, not an average

6.8%Nevadahighest of the 50 states

2.8%North Dakotalowest unemployment rate

12.1%Puerto RicoACS figure for Puerto Rico

6states at or above 6%Nevada, California, Louisiana, New York, New Jersey, Mississippi

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Unemployment rate, all published states

Unemployment rate · all 52 · ranked high to low

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Every area the Census published in this table: 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, 52 in all. Puerto Rico leads at 12.1 percent, then Nevada at 6.8 percent, District of Columbia at 6.5 percent and California at 6.4 percent. North Dakota is the lowest at 2.8 percent. The middle published area sits at 4.9 percent. 6 of the 50 states are at or above 6 percent. The ranking is each area's own unemployment rate: unemployed people divided by the civilian labor force.

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52 rows · 9 columns · sorted by unemployment rate, high to low

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Unemployment rate, unemployed count, civilian labor force and related employment-status counts for every state, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico on the 2023 ACS five-year estimates. Sort any column or use the filter box to jump to a state by name. Each unemployment rate is that area's own share of the civilian labor force, so those columns cannot be averaged into a United States figure.

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	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?
Puerto Rico	12.1%	0.3%	153,090	1,266,487	1,113,397	1,269,847	1,518,078	2,787,925
Nevada	6.8%	0.2%	107,736	1,582,026	1,474,290	1,595,039	933,721	2,528,760
District of Columbia	6.5%	0.4%	25,748	397,158	371,410	400,621	155,956	556,577
California	6.4%	0.1%	1,282,259	19,982,482	18,700,223	20,144,078	11,401,525	31,545,603
Louisiana	6.3%	0.2%	135,734	2,148,961	2,013,227	2,168,876	1,486,256	3,655,132
New York	6.2%	0.1%	632,127	10,200,538	9,568,411	10,226,460	6,008,980	16,235,440
New Jersey	6.2%	0.1%	304,881	4,949,651	4,644,770	4,961,028	2,516,221	7,477,249
Mississippi	6.0%	0.2%	79,706	1,326,878	1,247,172	1,340,330	1,002,520	2,342,850
New Mexico	6.0%	0.2%	58,121	970,453	912,332	985,090	720,596	1,705,686
Michigan	5.8%	0.1%	290,715	5,002,850	4,712,135	5,008,264	3,147,074	8,155,338
Illinois	5.8%	0.1%	384,790	6,638,033	6,253,243	6,658,874	3,564,754	10,223,628
Alaska	5.8%	0.3%	20,644	358,896	338,252	380,935	193,086	574,021
West Virginia	5.7%	0.2%	45,018	785,615	740,597	788,145	681,230	1,469,375
Rhode Island	5.7%	0.3%	33,634	589,549	555,915	593,598	319,083	912,681
Connecticut	5.6%	0.2%	109,838	1,945,293	1,835,455	1,953,702	1,002,242	2,955,944
Oregon	5.4%	0.2%	116,411	2,167,746	2,051,335	2,172,047	1,311,619	3,483,666
Pennsylvania	5.2%	0.1%	349,819	6,665,571	6,315,752	6,674,961	3,953,321	10,628,282
Arizona	5.2%	0.1%	182,184	3,522,511	3,340,327	3,547,314	2,314,803	5,862,117
Massachusetts	5.1%	0.1%	199,882	3,886,902	3,687,020	3,892,683	1,899,162	5,791,845
Texas	5.1%	0.1%	765,912	14,906,660	14,140,748	15,025,019	8,001,051	23,026,070
Georgia	5.1%	0.1%	276,950	5,407,819	5,130,869	5,467,313	3,115,605	8,582,918
Arkansas	5.1%	0.2%	71,269	1,399,009	1,327,740	1,405,609	1,004,149	2,409,758
Delaware	5.1%	0.3%	25,640	507,368	481,728	511,321	309,309	820,630
Hawaii	5.0%	0.2%	35,378	703,472	668,094	752,761	422,905	1,175,666
Washington	5.0%	0.1%	198,360	3,979,692	3,781,332	4,043,093	2,209,408	6,252,501
South Carolina	5.0%	0.1%	124,521	2,513,298	2,388,777	2,552,710	1,664,155	4,216,865
Maryland	4.9%	0.1%	162,773	3,296,039	3,133,266	3,328,517	1,625,606	4,954,123
Oklahoma	4.9%	0.1%	93,199	1,901,599	1,808,400	1,925,085	1,217,392	3,142,477
Ohio	4.8%	0.1%	290,011	5,984,743	5,694,732	5,996,927	3,480,855	9,477,782
Kentucky	4.8%	0.1%	103,267	2,136,157	2,032,890	2,150,592	1,454,834	3,605,426
North Carolina	4.8%	0.1%	253,256	5,243,966	4,990,710	5,351,978	3,181,844	8,533,822
Alabama	4.8%	0.1%	112,849	2,342,761	2,229,912	2,358,667	1,697,942	4,056,609
Florida	4.8%	0.1%	516,132	10,725,531	10,209,399	10,803,556	7,325,745	18,129,301
Tennessee	4.7%	0.1%	164,163	3,465,315	3,301,152	3,485,218	2,127,449	5,612,667
Colorado	4.5%	0.1%	143,373	3,195,037	3,051,664	3,237,720	1,479,726	4,717,446
Indiana	4.3%	0.1%	148,579	3,451,448	3,302,869	3,456,888	1,946,394	5,403,282
Virginia	4.3%	0.1%	191,415	4,450,159	4,258,744	4,580,910	2,399,924	6,980,834
Missouri	4.1%	0.1%	127,719	3,102,218	2,974,499	3,121,721	1,823,955	4,945,676
Minnesota	3.9%	0.1%	122,323	3,111,680	2,989,357	3,115,750	1,433,911	4,549,661
Maine	3.9%	0.2%	28,048	716,296	688,248	718,405	438,793	1,157,198
Kansas	3.9%	0.1%	59,154	1,513,914	1,454,760	1,534,589	780,645	2,315,234
Montana	3.8%	0.2%	21,045	560,181	539,136	564,064	333,756	897,820
Wyoming	3.7%	0.3%	11,118	297,053	285,935	300,480	161,756	462,236
Idaho	3.7%	0.2%	34,229	930,589	896,360	935,761	548,879	1,484,640
Vermont	3.7%	0.2%	12,815	350,073	337,258	351,168	191,840	543,008
Iowa	3.6%	0.1%	61,411	1,691,052	1,629,641	1,694,191	853,362	2,547,553
Utah	3.4%	0.1%	59,150	1,732,689	1,673,539	1,739,665	758,405	2,498,070
New Hampshire	3.4%	0.2%	25,914	771,014	745,100	772,933	391,216	1,164,149
Wisconsin	3.3%	0.1%	102,659	3,121,577	3,018,918	3,125,057	1,646,217	4,771,274
South Dakota	3.0%	0.2%	14,163	471,613	457,450	475,387	228,957	704,344
Nebraska	3.0%	0.1%	31,428	1,050,295	1,018,867	1,056,798	479,724	1,536,522
North Dakota	2.8%	0.2%	11,847	416,422	404,575	423,728	190,035	613,763

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About this data

The unemployment rate is unemployed people divided by the civilian labor force for the population 16 years and over (ACS table B23025). It is not the official monthly BLS unemployment rate.
A state unemployment rate is that state's own share, so these figures cannot be averaged to produce a national figure.
The Census published 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico. None of the rates were suppressed.
Puerto Rico is listed in the ranking and table but is not on the choropleth. Alaska and Hawaii appear on the ranking and as insets on the map.

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