BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Iowa Unemployment Rate by County
Iowa statewide was 3.6% in August 2026, against 3.8% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 99 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.
99 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adair County2.1% · −0.3 pts
- Adams County3.2% · +0.7 pts
- Allamakee County5.7% · +2.4 pts
- Appanoose County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Audubon County2.3% · −0.3 pts
- Benton County3.3% · −1.2 pts
- Black Hawk County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- Boone County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Bremer County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Buchanan County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Buena Vista County2.9% · −0.4 pts
- Butler County3.7% · +0.3 pts
- Calhoun County3.0% · 0.0 pts
- Carroll County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Cass County3.1% · −0.3 pts
- Cedar County3.0% · −0.4 pts
- Cerro Gordo County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Cherokee County2.6% · +0.2 pts
- Chickasaw County2.7% · +0.1 pts
- Clarke County2.7% · −0.4 pts
- Clay County3.0% · −0.2 pts
- Clayton County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Clinton County4.8% · −0.2 pts
- Crawford County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Dallas County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Davis County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Decatur County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Delaware County2.6% · −0.2 pts
- Des Moines County5.2% · +0.5 pts
- Dickinson County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Dubuque County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Emmet County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Fayette County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Floyd County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Franklin County3.5% · +0.2 pts
- Fremont County3.0% · −0.7 pts
- Greene County4.0% · +0.9 pts
- Grundy County3.2% · +0.1 pts
- Guthrie County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Hamilton County2.9% · +0.2 pts
- Hancock County2.8% · −0.3 pts
- Hardin County3.6% · +0.6 pts
- Harrison County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Henry County3.8% · +0.2 pts
- Howard County3.1% · +0.2 pts
- Humboldt County3.1% · −0.3 pts
- Ida County2.6% · −0.3 pts
- Iowa County3.3% · −3.0 pts
- Jackson County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Jasper County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Jefferson County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Johnson County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Jones County3.5% · −0.6 pts
- Keokuk County3.1% · −0.8 pts
- Kossuth County3.2% · +0.2 pts
- Lee County4.0% · −0.9 pts
- Linn County4.0% · −1.1 pts
- Louisa County3.5% · −0.5 pts
- Lucas County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Lyon County2.2% · −0.2 pts
- Madison County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Mahaska County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Marion County2.7% · −0.2 pts
- Marshall County5.5% · 0.0 pts
- Mills County3.2% · −0.8 pts
- Mitchell County3.1% · +0.2 pts
- Monona County3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Monroe County3.5% · −1.1 pts
- Montgomery County3.0% · +0.1 pts
- Muscatine County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- O'Brien County2.4% · −0.4 pts
- Osceola County2.1% · −0.3 pts
- Page County2.8% · −0.2 pts
- Palo Alto County2.6% · −0.1 pts
- Plymouth County2.8% · +0.2 pts
- Pocahontas County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Polk County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Pottawattamie County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Poweshiek County3.0% · −0.4 pts
- Ringgold County2.6% · −0.8 pts
- Sac County2.7% · −0.3 pts
- Scott County4.5% · −0.2 pts
- Shelby County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Sioux County2.2% · +0.2 pts
- Story County3.0% · 0.0 pts
- Tama County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Taylor County2.4% · −0.2 pts
- Union County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Van Buren County3.2% · −0.5 pts
- Wapello County4.6% · −0.8 pts
- Warren County3.3% · +0.1 pts
- Washington County2.5% · −0.1 pts
- Wayne County3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Webster County3.8% · +0.1 pts
- Winnebago County3.4% · −0.5 pts
- Winneshiek County2.5% · −0.1 pts
- Woodbury County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Worth County2.8% · −0.1 pts
- Wright County2.5% · −0.2 pts