BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
California Unemployment Rate by County
California statewide was 5.4% in August 2026, against 5.8% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 58 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.
58 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Alameda County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- Alpine County10.4% · +1.8 pts
- Amador County5.8% · −0.4 pts
- Butte County6.2% · −0.2 pts
- Calaveras County6.3% · −0.2 pts
- Colusa County9.4% · −0.1 pts
- Contra Costa County5.0% · −0.2 pts
- Del Norte County6.5% · 0.0 pts
- El Dorado County5.1% · −0.1 pts
- Fresno County7.8% · −0.2 pts
- Glenn County7.1% · −0.1 pts
- Humboldt County5.6% · −0.1 pts
- Imperial County21.9% · −0.1 pts
- Inyo County4.7% · 0.0 pts
- Kern County8.4% · −0.3 pts
- Kings County8.5% · −0.1 pts
- Lake County7.2% · +0.1 pts
- Lassen County6.6% · −0.1 pts
- Los Angeles County4.9% · −1.3 pts
- Madera County7.4% · 0.0 pts
- Marin County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Mariposa County5.6% · +0.4 pts
- Mendocino County5.6% · −0.3 pts
- Merced County8.9% · −0.5 pts
- Modoc County6.1% · 0.0 pts
- Mono County4.3% · 0.0 pts
- Monterey County5.7% · −0.1 pts
- Napa County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Nevada County5.0% · 0.0 pts
- Orange County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Placer County4.5% · −0.2 pts
- Plumas County5.7% · −0.1 pts
- Riverside County6.2% · −0.1 pts
- Sacramento County5.3% · −0.2 pts
- San Benito County5.9% · −0.4 pts
- San Bernardino County5.7% · −0.3 pts
- San Diego County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- San Francisco County/city4.2% · −0.3 pts
- San Joaquin County6.5% · −0.3 pts
- San Luis Obispo County4.7% · −0.2 pts
- San Mateo County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Santa Barbara County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Santa Clara County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Santa Cruz County5.3% · −0.3 pts
- Shasta County5.3% · −0.2 pts
- Sierra County4.4% · −0.4 pts
- Siskiyou County7.3% · +0.3 pts
- Solano County5.5% · −0.2 pts
- Sonoma County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Stanislaus County7.0% · −0.1 pts
- Sutter County7.4% · −0.3 pts
- Tehama County6.2% · −0.4 pts
- Trinity County5.5% · 0.0 pts
- Tulare County10.4% · −0.2 pts
- Tuolumne County5.6% · 0.0 pts
- Ventura County5.0% · −0.3 pts
- Yolo County5.7% · −0.2 pts
- Yuba County6.7% · −0.3 pts