List of U.S. states and territories by unemployment rate

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 the Northern Mariana Islands is from April 2010 (more than ten years old) it is included but not ranked in the table below.

Note that italics represent an insular possession of the United States