The list of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate compares the seasonally adjusted unemployment rates by state and territory, sortable by name, rate, and change. Data are provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in its Geographic Profile of Employment and Unemployment publication. [1] [2] While the non-seasonally adjusted data reflects the actual unemployment rate, the seasonally adjusted data removes time from the equation. [3]
Data for all U.S. states, the District of Columbia [4] and Puerto Rico [5] is from June 2023 and September 2021, respectively. Data for Guam is from September 2019, and data for American Samoa is from 2018. Data for the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but not ranked in the table below.
| Rank | State and Territory | Seasonally adjusted rates |
|---|---|---|
| - |  Northern Mariana Islands | 11.2 |
| 1 |  American Samoa | 11.4 |
| 2 |  Puerto Rico | 6.1 |
| 3 |  Nevada | 5.4 |
| 4 |  District of Columbia | 5.1 |
| 5 |  California | 4.6 |
| 6 |  Delaware | 4.2 |
| 7 |  Texas | 4.1 |
| 8 |  Illinois | 4 |
| 9 |  New York | 3.9 |
| 10 |  Kentucky | 3.8 |
| 11 |  Pennsylvania | 3.8 |
| 13 |  Washington | 3.8 |
| 14 |  Alaska | 3.7 |
| 15 |  Connecticut | 3.7 |
| 16 |  New Jersey | 3.7 |
| 17 |  Louisiana | 3.6 |
| 18 |  Michigan | 3.6 |
| 19 |  Arizona | 3.5 |
| 20 |  New Mexico | 3.5 |
| 21 |  Oregon | 3.5 |
| 22 |  Ohio | 3.4 |
| 23 |  North Carolina | 3.3 |
| 24 |  West Virginia | 3.3 |
| 25 |  Georgia | 3.2 |
| 26 |  Indiana | 3.2 |
| 27 |  Tennessee | 3.2 |
| 28 |  Mississippi | 3.1 |
| 29 |  South Carolina | 3.1 |
| 30 |  Wyoming | 3.1 |
| 31 |  Hawaii | 3 |
| 32 |  Minnesota | 2.9 |
| 33 |  Rhode Island | 2.9 |
| 34 |  Colorado | 2.8 |
| 35 |  Kansas | 2.8 |
| 36 |  Idaho | 2.7 |
| 37 |  Iowa | 2.7 |
| 38 |  Oklahoma | 2.7 |
| 39 |  Virginia | 2.7 |
| 40 |  Arkansas | 2.6 |
| 41 |  Florida | 2.6 |
| 42 |  Massachusetts | 2.6 |
| 43 |  Missouri | 2.6 |
| 44 |  Wisconsin | 2.5 |
| 45 |  Maine | 2.4 |
| 46 |  Montana | 2.4 |
| 47 |  Utah | 2.4 |
| 48 |  Alabama | 2.2 |
| 49 |  Maryland | 2 |
| 50 |  North Dakota | 2 |
| 51 |  Nebraska | 1.9 |
| 52 |  Vermont | 1.9 |
| 53 |  New Hampshire | 1.8 |
| 54 |  South Dakota | 1.8 |
Note that italics represent an insular possession of the United States
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