BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Arkansas Unemployment Rate by County
Arkansas statewide was 3.7% in August 2026, against 4.3% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 75 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.
75 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Arkansas County4.0% · −0.6 pts
- Ashley County5.0% · −0.8 pts
- Baxter County3.8% · −0.8 pts
- Benton County2.9% · −0.4 pts
- Boone County3.7% · −0.6 pts
- Bradley County4.8% · −1.3 pts
- Calhoun County3.7% · −1.0 pts
- Carroll County3.4% · −0.6 pts
- Chicot County5.8% · −0.7 pts
- Clark County4.2% · −1.1 pts
- Clay County3.8% · −0.5 pts
- Cleburne County3.9% · −1.0 pts
- Cleveland County4.0% · −0.9 pts
- Columbia County4.4% · −0.9 pts
- Conway County3.6% · −0.9 pts
- Craighead County3.5% · −0.6 pts
- Crawford County3.6% · −0.9 pts
- Crittenden County4.9% · −1.0 pts
- Cross County3.8% · −0.5 pts
- Dallas County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Desha County6.6% · −0.9 pts
- Drew County4.1% · −1.0 pts
- Faulkner County3.3% · −0.6 pts
- Franklin County3.9% · −0.6 pts
- Fulton County4.6% · −1.1 pts
- Garland County3.6% · −0.7 pts
- Grant County3.1% · −0.6 pts
- Greene County3.9% · −0.8 pts
- Hempstead County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Hot Spring County3.8% · −0.9 pts
- Howard County4.7% · −0.8 pts
- Independence County3.0% · −0.9 pts
- Izard County5.3% · −1.3 pts
- Jackson County3.9% · −0.8 pts
- Jefferson County5.5% · −1.0 pts
- Johnson County5.1% · −0.6 pts
- Lafayette County4.5% · −1.2 pts
- Lawrence County3.7% · −0.7 pts
- Lee County5.2% · −1.2 pts
- Lincoln County5.0% · −0.7 pts
- Little River County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Logan County3.9% · −0.5 pts
- Lonoke County3.2% · −0.5 pts
- Madison County2.8% · −0.7 pts
- Marion County5.1% · −1.2 pts
- Miller County4.3% · −1.0 pts
- Mississippi County3.9% · −1.4 pts
- Monroe County4.7% · −1.0 pts
- Montgomery County4.2% · −0.9 pts
- Nevada County6.0% · +0.4 pts
- Newton County4.4% · −0.4 pts
- Ouachita County4.5% · −0.9 pts
- Perry County4.1% · −0.8 pts
- Phillips County7.2% · −0.1 pts
- Pike County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Poinsett County3.7% · −0.6 pts
- Polk County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Pope County4.7% · −0.4 pts
- Prairie County3.5% · −0.6 pts
- Pulaski County4.0% · −0.5 pts
- Randolph County3.2% · −0.9 pts
- Saline County3.1% · −0.4 pts
- Scott County3.6% · −0.4 pts
- Searcy County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Sebastian County3.6% · −0.6 pts
- Sevier County3.0% · −0.5 pts
- Sharp County3.9% · −1.1 pts
- St. Francis County5.1% · −1.1 pts
- Stone County4.4% · −1.6 pts
- Union County4.6% · −1.0 pts
- Van Buren County4.7% · −0.6 pts
- Washington County2.9% · −0.6 pts
- White County3.6% · −0.6 pts
- Woodruff County3.1% · −0.5 pts
- Yell County3.8% · −0.7 pts