Unemployment by state.
Middle unemployment rate across each state's cities. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2025 annual average.
Unemploymentunder 3.3%3.3%–3.7%3.7%–4.0%4.0%–4.5%4.5%+
Every state, ranked
Unemployment, highest first. Each value is the middle across the cities we list in that state, so states with few cities rest on few numbers.
- 1District of Columbia6.3%1 city
- 2Nevada5.5%24 cities
- 3New Jersey5.1%157 cities
- 4California5.1%502 cities
- 5Michigan5.0%101 cities
- 6Oregon5.0%68 cities
- 7Delaware4.7%11 cities
- 8Illinois4.7%224 cities
- 9Rhode Island4.6%11 cities
- 10Washington4.6%131 cities
- 11Massachusetts4.5%89 cities
- 12Ohio4.5%186 cities
- 13Kentucky4.4%45 cities
- 14Arizona4.3%68 cities
- 15Pennsylvania4.2%87 cities
- 16Arkansas4.2%39 cities
- 17West Virginia4.1%16 cities
- 18Connecticut4.1%33 cities
- 19Alaska4.1%7 cities
- 20South Carolina4.0%62 cities
- 21Florida4.0%342 cities
- 22Louisiana4.0%57 cities
- 23Maryland4.0%138 cities
- 24Missouri4.0%87 cities
- 25New Mexico4.0%23 cities
- 26Texas4.0%267 cities
- 27Colorado4.0%70 cities
- 28North Carolina3.9%96 cities
- 29Kansas3.8%35 cities
- 30Minnesota3.7%101 cities
- 31Mississippi3.7%41 cities
- 32Indiana3.6%85 cities
- 33Utah3.6%66 cities
- 34Idaho3.5%25 cities
- 35New York3.5%202 cities
- 36Iowa3.4%42 cities
- 37Wyoming3.4%11 cities
- 38Maine3.3%13 cities
- 39Oklahoma3.3%45 cities
- 40Tennessee3.3%65 cities
- 41Montana3.3%8 cities
- 42Georgia3.2%113 cities
- 43Virginia3.2%129 cities
- 44Nebraska2.9%17 cities
- 45New Hampshire2.9%15 cities
- 46Wisconsin2.9%96 cities
- 47Alabama2.8%70 cities
- 48North Dakota2.6%9 cities
- 49Hawaii2.3%34 cities
- 50Vermont2.3%4 cities
- 51South Dakota2.0%13 cities