BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Georgia Unemployment Rate by County
Georgia statewide was 3.4% in August 2026, against 3.6% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 159 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.
159 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Appling County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Atkinson County3.4% · +0.3 pts
- Bacon County3.4% · −0.2 pts
- Baker County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Baldwin County3.6% · −0.5 pts
- Banks County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Barrow County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Bartow County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Ben Hill County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Berrien County3.0% · −0.4 pts
- Bibb County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Bleckley County3.4% · −0.5 pts
- Brantley County3.1% · −0.3 pts
- Brooks County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Bryan County2.8% · −0.3 pts
- Bulloch County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Burke County4.7% · +0.3 pts
- Butts County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Calhoun County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Camden County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Candler County3.2% · −0.4 pts
- Carroll County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Catoosa County3.0% · −0.3 pts
- Charlton County3.2% · −0.4 pts
- Chatham County3.0% · −0.2 pts
- Chattahoochee County7.3% · −0.8 pts
- Chattooga County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Cherokee County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Clarke County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Clay County5.9% · −1.0 pts
- Clayton County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Clinch County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Cobb County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Coffee County3.5% · −0.5 pts
- Colquitt County3.1% · −0.4 pts
- Columbia County3.3% · −0.2 pts
- Cook County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Coweta County3.1% · −0.2 pts
- Crawford County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Crisp County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Dade County3.3% · −0.6 pts
- Dawson County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Decatur County3.6% · −0.4 pts
- DeKalb County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Dodge County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- Dooly County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Dougherty County4.8% · −0.4 pts
- Douglas County3.6% · −0.3 pts
- Early County4.9% · −0.1 pts
- Echols County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Effingham County2.7% · −0.2 pts
- Elbert County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Emanuel County3.7% · −0.8 pts
- Evans County3.1% · −0.2 pts
- Fannin County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Fayette County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- Floyd County3.3% · −0.6 pts
- Forsyth County2.8% · −0.1 pts
- Franklin County3.7% · 0.0 pts
- Fulton County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Gilmer County3.0% · −0.3 pts
- Glascock County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Glynn County2.9% · −0.3 pts
- Gordon County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Grady County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Greene County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Gwinnett County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Habersham County2.9% · −0.3 pts
- Hall County2.8% · −0.3 pts
- Hancock County5.1% · 0.0 pts
- Haralson County3.3% · −0.2 pts
- Harris County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Hart County3.4% · −0.3 pts
- Heard County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Henry County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Houston County3.1% · −0.2 pts
- Irwin County3.8% · +0.1 pts
- Jackson County3.1% · −0.2 pts
- Jasper County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- Jeff Davis County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Jefferson County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Jenkins County2.9% · −0.5 pts
- Johnson County3.4% · −0.2 pts
- Jones County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Lamar County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Lanier County3.5% · −0.5 pts
- Laurens County3.7% · −0.4 pts
- Lee County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Liberty County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Lincoln County4.0% · 0.0 pts
- Long County3.5% · −0.4 pts
- Lowndes County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Lumpkin County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Macon County4.6% · −0.4 pts
- Madison County3.2% · −0.1 pts
- Marion County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- McDuffie County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- McIntosh County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Meriwether County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- Miller County3.4% · +0.2 pts
- Mitchell County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Monroe County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Montgomery County4.8% · +0.5 pts
- Morgan County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Murray County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Muscogee County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Newton County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Oconee County2.6% · −0.3 pts
- Oglethorpe County2.9% · −0.3 pts
- Paulding County3.3% · −0.2 pts
- Peach County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Pickens County3.0% · −0.2 pts
- Pierce County3.7% · −0.3 pts
- Pike County3.0% · −0.2 pts
- Polk County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Pulaski County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Putnam County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Quitman County6.4% · −0.8 pts
- Rabun County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Randolph County4.3% · 0.0 pts
- Richmond County4.6% · −0.3 pts
- Rockdale County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Schley County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Screven County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Seminole County4.4% · −0.6 pts
- Spalding County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Stephens County4.1% · −0.3 pts
- Stewart County5.8% · +0.2 pts
- Sumter County4.5% · −0.4 pts
- Talbot County4.1% · −0.8 pts
- Taliaferro County3.0% · −0.9 pts
- Tattnall County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Taylor County4.0% · −0.8 pts
- Telfair County4.8% · −0.9 pts
- Terrell County4.8% · −1.0 pts
- Thomas County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Tift County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Toombs County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Towns County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Treutlen County4.0% · −0.6 pts
- Troup County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Turner County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Twiggs County4.6% · −0.4 pts
- Union County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Upson County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Walker County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Walton County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Ware County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Warren County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Washington County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Wayne County3.3% · −0.5 pts
- Webster County4.6% · +0.6 pts
- Wheeler County2.9% · −0.3 pts
- White County2.9% · −0.3 pts
- Whitfield County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Wilcox County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Wilkes County3.9% · +0.2 pts
- Wilkinson County4.2% · −0.4 pts
- Worth County3.8% · 0.0 pts