US Counties With the Lowest Unemployed

3,219 US counties ranked by unemployed, from lowest to highest. First are Bowman County, ND (6.81), Bon Homme County, SD (7.26) and Faulk County, SD (7.49). The middle one of the 3,219 has 15.78.

What this measures

People without a job who looked for one in the past four weeks and could start work. 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.

More on unemployed

• US Counties With the Highest Unemployed
• Unemployed 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.