Unemployment rate
Share of people in the labor force who are looking for work and don't have a job. The Bureau of Labor Statistics does not publish this for towns under 25,000 people, so this is the county figure.
Show the numbers for this range
Raw data: unemployment.json · every value carries its source and retrieval date
What this measures
438 data points · 1 source
- Not seasonally adjusted: summer bumps (school-year jobs ending) are normal.
- October 2025 was never published because of the 2025 federal funding lapse; the line skips it.
- The labor-force count re-benchmarks in 2010 and 2016, which can shift levels slightly.
- Covers
- Houston County (the city itself is not published)
- Unit
- percent of labor force
- How often
- Monthly since January 1990
- Updated here
- 23 Sept 2026
The gaps
What the record doesn't show yet
- County monthly data before 1990 is not published in this series.
Sources
Primary records, linked