Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Unemployment

Issue: High unemployment rates are a problem, as are very low unemployment rates that drive local inflation rates up.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Unemployment

Issue: High unemployment rates are a problem, as are very low unemployment rates that drive local inflation rates up.

Content: This map shows unemployment rates and counts of unemployed people. Areas in red have higher unemployment rates.

Data is from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

This map shows the most current unemployment figures in the USA by states and counties. This is seen in two ways:

  • The darkest red areas in the map have the highest unemployment rate (% of labor force)
  • The LARGEST SYMBOLS have the highest count of unemployed people

The color pattern is reinforced behind the centroid layer in order to show the pattern by the boundaries. 

The figures shown are the most recent monthly figures provided by the  Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) , and  the data  updates behind the scenes automatically each month.

The map uses the  Bureau of Labor Statistics Monthly Unemployment layer  from  ArcGIS Living Atlas of the World . To find other web maps that show how unemployment looks in the US right now, check out the  collection of maps created from this layer .