US Counties With the Lowest Private Jobs

3,213 US counties ranked by private jobs, from lowest to highest. First are Northeastern Connecticut Planning Region, CT (9.42), Maunabo Municipio, PR (29.48) and Long County, GA (30.49). The middle one of the 3,213 has 263.94.

What this measures

Private-sector jobs, averaged over the year, as employers report them to the state's unemployment insurance program. Jobs are counted where the job is, not where the worker lives. Source: BLS Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages.

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.

More on private jobs

• US Counties With the Highest Private Jobs
• Private jobs by US county: map by year and what it goes with

A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.