BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Colorado Unemployment Rate by County
Colorado statewide was 4.6% in August 2026, against 3.9% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 64 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.
64 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adams County4.8% · +0.7 pts
- Alamosa County5.1% · +0.7 pts
- Arapahoe County4.6% · +0.8 pts
- Archuleta County4.3% · +0.9 pts
- Baca County3.3% · +0.5 pts
- Bent County5.3% · +0.5 pts
- Boulder County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Broomfield County/city4.4% · +0.7 pts
- Chaffee County4.0% · +0.6 pts
- Cheyenne County2.9% · +0.4 pts
- Clear Creek County4.4% · +0.8 pts
- Conejos County4.3% · +0.4 pts
- Costilla County8.0% · +1.5 pts
- Crowley County4.7% · +0.9 pts
- Custer County4.5% · +1.1 pts
- Delta County6.2% · +1.1 pts
- Denver County/city4.7% · +0.7 pts
- Dolores County5.4% · +1.2 pts
- Douglas County4.2% · +0.6 pts
- Eagle County3.5% · +0.7 pts
- El Paso County4.7% · +0.8 pts
- Elbert County4.0% · +0.7 pts
- Fremont County5.9% · +1.0 pts
- Garfield County3.6% · +0.8 pts
- Gilpin County3.9% · +0.6 pts
- Grand County3.4% · +0.4 pts
- Gunnison County3.5% · +0.5 pts
- Hinsdale County3.5% · +0.8 pts
- Huerfano County7.0% · +0.7 pts
- Jackson County3.8% · +1.0 pts
- Jefferson County4.4% · +0.7 pts
- Kiowa County3.4% · +0.5 pts
- Kit Carson County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- La Plata County4.1% · +0.7 pts
- Lake County4.0% · +0.8 pts
- Larimer County4.4% · +0.6 pts
- Las Animas County6.9% · +1.0 pts
- Lincoln County5.7% · +1.2 pts
- Logan County4.1% · +0.7 pts
- Mesa County4.6% · +0.8 pts
- Mineral County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Moffat County4.9% · +1.3 pts
- Montezuma County5.3% · +1.0 pts
- Montrose County4.8% · +0.9 pts
- Morgan County4.6% · +0.4 pts
- Otero County6.3% · +0.7 pts
- Ouray County4.3% · +0.7 pts
- Park County4.6% · +0.8 pts
- Phillips County3.1% · +0.2 pts
- Pitkin County3.3% · +0.7 pts
- Prowers County4.7% · +0.9 pts
- Pueblo County6.6% · +1.1 pts
- Rio Blanco County4.6% · +1.3 pts
- Rio Grande County5.0% · +0.9 pts
- Routt County3.9% · +0.9 pts
- Saguache County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- San Juan County3.6% · +0.3 pts
- San Miguel County3.5% · +1.0 pts
- Sedgwick County4.1% · +0.7 pts
- Summit County4.0% · +1.1 pts
- Teller County4.5% · +0.9 pts
- Washington County4.1% · +0.5 pts
- Weld County5.0% · +0.8 pts
- Yuma County2.7% · +0.3 pts