US Counties With the Lowest Employed
3,219 US counties ranked by employed, from lowest to highest. First are Chattahoochee County, GA (124.50), East Carroll Parish, LA (153.02) and McDowell County, WV (182.64). The middle one of the 3,219 has 449.63.
What this measures
People who have a job, including part-time work and self-employment. Source: BLS LAUS.
This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | Per 1,000 residents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Puerto Rico | 347.45 |
| 2 | Mississippi | 410.61 |
| 3 | West Virginia | 424.96 |
| 4 | Louisiana | 433.52 |
| 5 | Kentucky | 436.72 |
| 6 | New Mexico | 440.23 |
| 7 | Arkansas | 442.68 |
| 8 | Alabama | 446.71 |
| 9 | Hawaii | 457.26 |
| 10 | South Carolina | 464.36 |
| 11 | Alaska | 466.56 |
| 12 | Tennessee | 471.57 |
| 13 | California | 473.82 |
| 14 | New York | 475.66 |
| 15 | Oklahoma | 476.74 |
| 16 | Ohio | 477.69 |
| 17 | Michigan | 478.31 |
| 18 | Georgia | 480.33 |
| 19 | North Carolina | 480.73 |
| 20 | Indiana | 485.51 |
| 21 | Nevada | 485.80 |
| 22 | Pennsylvania | 486.51 |
| 23 | Delaware | 487.03 |
| 24 | Arizona | 487.84 |
| 25 | Florida | 487.85 |
| 26 | Missouri | 487.97 |
| 27 | Maine | 490.77 |
| 28 | Illinois | 491.06 |
| 29 | Wyoming | 491.58 |
| 30 | Oregon | 492.51 |
| 31 | Texas | 493.82 |
| 32 | Idaho | 497.44 |
| 33 | Washington | 498.37 |
| 34 | Montana | 503.71 |
| 35 | New Jersey | 503.75 |
| 36 | Kansas | 504.84 |
| 37 | Maryland | 506.65 |
| 38 | Virginia | 510.81 |
| 39 | Connecticut | 513.60 |
| 40 | Rhode Island | 515.02 |
| 41 | Wisconsin | 515.44 |
| 42 | Iowa | 518.60 |
| 43 | South Dakota | 523.77 |
| 44 | Utah | 524.95 |
| 45 | North Dakota | 525.62 |
| 46 | Massachusetts | 527.82 |
| 47 | Minnesota | 528.74 |
| 48 | Nebraska | 529.37 |
| 49 | Vermont | 531.08 |
| 50 | New Hampshire | 536.69 |
| 51 | Colorado | 537.62 |
| 52 | District of Columbia | 573.55 |
More on employed
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.