BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Florida Unemployment Rate by County
Florida statewide was 4.6% in August 2026, against 4.3% 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
- Alachua County5.4% · +0.4 pts
- Baker County5.0% · +0.4 pts
- Bay County4.4% · +0.2 pts
- Bradford County5.5% · +0.6 pts
- Brevard County4.8% · +0.3 pts
- Broward County4.4% · +0.4 pts
- Calhoun County5.1% · +0.3 pts
- Charlotte County5.9% · +0.5 pts
- Citrus County6.7% · +0.5 pts
- Clay County4.7% · +0.2 pts
- Collier County5.0% · +0.3 pts
- Columbia County5.5% · +0.5 pts
- DeSoto County6.0% · +0.6 pts
- Dixie County6.0% · +0.5 pts
- Duval County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Escambia County5.0% · +0.5 pts
- Flagler County5.5% · +0.3 pts
- Franklin County5.0% · +0.1 pts
- Gadsden County5.8% · +0.5 pts
- Gilchrist County5.0% · +0.4 pts
- Glades County5.8% · +0.5 pts
- Gulf County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Hamilton County6.5% · +0.4 pts
- Hardee County5.5% · +0.2 pts
- Hendry County5.7% · +0.4 pts
- Hernando County5.4% · +0.4 pts
- Highlands County6.8% · +0.5 pts
- Hillsborough County4.6% · +0.3 pts
- Holmes County4.8% · +0.4 pts
- Indian River County5.6% · +0.3 pts
- Jackson County5.2% · +0.3 pts
- Jefferson County4.4% · +0.4 pts
- Lafayette County6.1% · +0.5 pts
- Lake County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Lee County5.2% · +0.5 pts
- Leon County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Levy County5.4% · +0.3 pts
- Liberty County5.1% · +0.2 pts
- Madison County5.2% · 0.0 pts
- Manatee County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Marion County5.7% · +0.4 pts
- Martin County4.9% · +0.3 pts
- Miami-Dade County2.7% · −0.3 pts
- Monroe County3.3% · +0.3 pts
- Nassau County4.6% · +0.4 pts
- Okaloosa County4.4% · +0.4 pts
- Okeechobee County5.3% · +0.4 pts
- Orange County4.5% · +0.4 pts
- Osceola County4.8% · +0.4 pts
- Palm Beach County4.6% · +0.3 pts
- Pasco County5.0% · +0.4 pts
- Pinellas County4.3% · +0.3 pts
- Polk County5.6% · +0.3 pts
- Putnam County5.6% · +0.4 pts
- Santa Rosa County4.8% · +0.5 pts
- Sarasota County5.0% · +0.4 pts
- Seminole County4.3% · +0.3 pts
- St. Johns County4.7% · +0.4 pts
- St. Lucie County5.3% · +0.3 pts
- Sumter County7.9% · +0.8 pts
- Suwannee County5.6% · +0.3 pts
- Taylor County8.2% · +0.6 pts
- Union County6.4% · +0.7 pts
- Volusia County5.2% · +0.3 pts
- Wakulla County4.1% · +0.4 pts
- Walton County4.3% · +0.3 pts
- Washington County5.4% · +0.1 pts