BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Alabama Unemployment Rate by County
Alabama statewide was 3.6% in August 2026, against 3.0% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 67 counties and equivalents below are listed alphabetically, each with its August 2026 rate and the change from August 2025. They are not ranked: county estimates carry model error BLS does not publish, so an order would compare noise.
67 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Autauga County3.2% · +0.7 pts
- Baldwin County3.1% · +0.5 pts
- Barbour County4.7% · +0.9 pts
- Bibb County3.2% · +0.4 pts
- Blount County2.9% · +0.5 pts
- Bullock County4.1% · +0.3 pts
- Butler County4.5% · +0.8 pts
- Calhoun County4.0% · +0.7 pts
- Chambers County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Cherokee County3.6% · +0.7 pts
- Chilton County3.1% · +0.5 pts
- Choctaw County5.0% · +0.9 pts
- Clarke County6.0% · +0.6 pts
- Clay County4.2% · +1.4 pts
- Cleburne County3.1% · +0.5 pts
- Coffee County3.3% · +0.6 pts
- Colbert County3.9% · +0.5 pts
- Conecuh County5.1% · +0.7 pts
- Coosa County3.5% · +0.5 pts
- Covington County3.6% · +0.6 pts
- Crenshaw County3.9% · +0.9 pts
- Cullman County3.1% · +0.5 pts
- Dale County4.0% · +0.8 pts
- Dallas County5.6% · +0.6 pts
- DeKalb County3.2% · +0.8 pts
- Elmore County3.0% · +0.7 pts
- Escambia County4.5% · +0.7 pts
- Etowah County3.7% · +0.7 pts
- Fayette County3.6% · +0.9 pts
- Franklin County3.5% · +0.6 pts
- Geneva County3.4% · +0.7 pts
- Greene County6.8% · +0.3 pts
- Hale County5.0% · +0.3 pts
- Henry County3.3% · +0.4 pts
- Houston County3.6% · +0.7 pts
- Jackson County3.7% · +0.4 pts
- Jefferson County3.8% · +0.7 pts
- Lamar County3.6% · +0.5 pts
- Lauderdale County3.9% · +0.6 pts
- Lawrence County3.2% · +0.6 pts
- Lee County3.2% · +0.5 pts
- Limestone County2.9% · +0.5 pts
- Lowndes County5.6% · −0.2 pts
- Macon County5.2% · +0.9 pts
- Madison County3.0% · +0.5 pts
- Marengo County4.5% · +0.6 pts
- Marion County3.8% · +0.4 pts
- Marshall County2.9% · +0.4 pts
- Mobile County4.4% · +0.6 pts
- Monroe County6.6% · +0.6 pts
- Montgomery County4.0% · +0.7 pts
- Morgan County2.9% · +0.5 pts
- Perry County7.0% · +0.4 pts
- Pickens County4.7% · +0.6 pts
- Pike County4.1% · +0.7 pts
- Randolph County3.7% · +0.2 pts
- Russell County4.3% · +0.7 pts
- Shelby County2.8% · +0.5 pts
- St. Clair County3.2% · +0.8 pts
- Sumter County5.5% · +0.8 pts
- Talladega County4.2% · +0.8 pts
- Tallapoosa County3.7% · +0.7 pts
- Tuscaloosa County3.8% · +0.5 pts
- Walker County3.4% · +0.5 pts
- Washington County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Wilcox County6.4% · +0.1 pts
- Winston County3.9% · +0.7 pts