BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Idaho Unemployment Rate by County
Idaho statewide was 3.5% in August 2026, against 3.5% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 44 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.
44 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Ada County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Adams County4.9% · −0.1 pts
- Bannock County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Bear Lake County2.7% · +0.3 pts
- Benewah County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Bingham County3.7% · +0.4 pts
- Blaine County2.6% · −0.2 pts
- Boise County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Bonner County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- Bonneville County3.2% · +0.3 pts
- Boundary County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Butte County3.1% · −0.3 pts
- Camas County3.8% · +0.2 pts
- Canyon County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Caribou County3.4% · +0.2 pts
- Cassia County3.4% · +0.2 pts
- Clark County3.2% · −0.5 pts
- Clearwater County5.6% · +0.2 pts
- Custer County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- Elmore County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Franklin County3.2% · +0.3 pts
- Fremont County2.7% · −0.3 pts
- Gem County3.2% · −0.2 pts
- Gooding County3.0% · +0.3 pts
- Idaho County3.6% · −0.5 pts
- Jefferson County3.0% · +0.4 pts
- Jerome County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Kootenai County3.8% · −0.2 pts
- Latah County3.4% · +0.1 pts
- Lemhi County3.2% · +0.1 pts
- Lewis County3.8% · −1.2 pts
- Lincoln County3.6% · +0.5 pts
- Madison County5.5% · +0.9 pts
- Minidoka County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Nez Perce County3.3% · −0.2 pts
- Oneida County2.8% · +0.3 pts
- Owyhee County3.1% · −0.5 pts
- Payette County4.1% · +0.2 pts
- Power County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Shoshone County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Teton County1.9% · −0.1 pts
- Twin Falls County3.5% · +0.3 pts
- Valley County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Washington County4.4% · +0.3 pts