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Unemployment Rate by state

Percent. Every state colored on one scale across all years, joined to the map by FIPS code.

2025
20002025
Texas: 4.2%California: 5.5%Kentucky: 4.6%Georgia: 3.4%Wisconsin: 3.2%Oregon: 5.2%Missouri: 4.0%Virginia: 3.3%Tennessee: 3.5%Louisiana: 4.3%New York: 4.3%Idaho: 3.6%Florida: 3.9%Illinois: 4.5%Montana: 3.3%Minnesota: 3.8%Maryland: 4.0%Iowa: 3.5%District of Columbia: 6.3%Ohio: 4.6%Nebraska: 2.9%Washington: 4.6%South Dakota: 2.1%Oklahoma: 3.3%Wyoming: 3.3%West Virginia: 4.1%Indiana: 3.7%Massachusetts: 4.5%Nevada: 5.3%North Dakota: 2.6%Arkansas: 4.0%Mississippi: 3.8%Colorado: 4.0%North Carolina: 3.8%Utah: 3.5%Hawaii: 2.3%New Mexico: 4.1%Kansas: 3.8%Rhode Island: 4.4%Michigan: 5.1%Alaska: 4.6%Delaware: 4.7%Alabama: 2.9%South Carolina: 4.4%Maine: 3.3%New Jersey: 5.3%Pennsylvania: 4.3%New Hampshire: 3.1%Arizona: 4.3%Connecticut: 3.9%Vermont: 2.6%46533543444445344453523344553444442445534344
1.8%
13.7%

The color scale is fixed across all years, so a state changing shade as you move the slider is a real change in the value.

2025 · Highest: District of Columbia 6.3% · Lowest: South Dakota 2.1%

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics · LAUS · table · 2000 to 2026

See national unemployment over time ↗

Reading it. BLS LAUS, the annual average of the monthly rate. The unemployed as a share of the labor force; excludes those who have stopped looking.

Comparing states is harder than it looks. A dollar buys more in some states than others, and survey estimates carry a margin of error. Read the map for the pattern, not for a precise ranking.