BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Illinois Unemployment Rate by County
Illinois statewide was 4.9% in August 2026, against 4.6% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 102 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.
102 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adams County2.9% · −0.8 pts
- Alexander County5.6% · −2.2 pts
- Bond County3.8% · −0.7 pts
- Boone County4.2% · −1.0 pts
- Brown County2.6% · −0.6 pts
- Bureau County4.0% · −1.1 pts
- Calhoun County3.7% · −1.4 pts
- Carroll County3.4% · −1.3 pts
- Cass County3.4% · −1.4 pts
- Champaign County3.9% · −1.0 pts
- Christian County3.5% · −0.9 pts
- Clark County4.1% · −0.7 pts
- Clay County3.6% · −1.5 pts
- Clinton County2.7% · −0.8 pts
- Coles County3.2% · −1.1 pts
- Cook County5.9% · +1.2 pts
- Crawford County3.5% · −0.8 pts
- Cumberland County2.7% · −0.8 pts
- De Witt County3.3% · −0.5 pts
- DeKalb County3.7% · −1.0 pts
- Douglas County3.2% · −0.8 pts
- DuPage County4.7% · +0.9 pts
- Edgar County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Edwards County7.0% · +2.4 pts
- Effingham County2.9% · −0.8 pts
- Fayette County3.9% · −1.0 pts
- Ford County3.6% · −1.1 pts
- Franklin County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Fulton County3.9% · −0.7 pts
- Gallatin County3.9% · −1.5 pts
- Greene County3.1% · −0.8 pts
- Grundy County4.9% · +0.8 pts
- Hamilton County4.0% · −0.8 pts
- Hancock County3.1% · −1.0 pts
- Hardin County4.2% · −2.0 pts
- Henderson County3.0% · −1.1 pts
- Henry County3.7% · −1.4 pts
- Iroquois County3.9% · −0.9 pts
- Jackson County4.3% · −0.9 pts
- Jasper County2.8% · −1.0 pts
- Jefferson County4.6% · −0.6 pts
- Jersey County3.3% · −0.7 pts
- Jo Daviess County3.0% · −0.6 pts
- Johnson County4.5% · −0.9 pts
- Kane County3.8% · −0.9 pts
- Kankakee County4.3% · −1.3 pts
- Kendall County3.8% · −0.7 pts
- Knox County4.4% · −1.2 pts
- Lake County3.8% · −0.8 pts
- LaSalle County4.4% · −1.2 pts
- Lawrence County4.1% · −0.9 pts
- Lee County3.7% · −0.9 pts
- Livingston County3.2% · −1.0 pts
- Logan County3.8% · −1.2 pts
- Macon County5.1% · −1.0 pts
- Macoupin County3.8% · −1.0 pts
- Madison County3.5% · −0.9 pts
- Marion County4.2% · −0.9 pts
- Marshall County3.9% · −1.1 pts
- Mason County3.7% · −1.1 pts
- Massac County3.7% · −0.9 pts
- McDonough County4.1% · −0.9 pts
- McHenry County4.7% · +1.0 pts
- McLean County3.4% · −0.9 pts
- Menard County3.3% · −0.7 pts
- Mercer County3.6% · −1.2 pts
- Monroe County2.5% · −0.8 pts
- Montgomery County3.7% · −1.0 pts
- Morgan County3.5% · −0.7 pts
- Moultrie County3.0% · −1.2 pts
- Ogle County3.6% · −1.0 pts
- Peoria County4.5% · −0.9 pts
- Perry County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Piatt County3.2% · −1.0 pts
- Pike County3.5% · −1.3 pts
- Pope County5.3% · −1.0 pts
- Pulaski County5.2% · −1.4 pts
- Putnam County3.9% · −0.8 pts
- Randolph County3.2% · −1.0 pts
- Richland County3.4% · −0.7 pts
- Rock Island County4.0% · −1.4 pts
- Saline County4.0% · −0.9 pts
- Sangamon County3.8% · −0.9 pts
- Schuyler County3.5% · −1.0 pts
- Scott County3.0% · −1.4 pts
- Shelby County3.1% · −0.9 pts
- St. Clair County3.9% · −1.0 pts
- Stark County3.8% · −1.2 pts
- Stephenson County3.9% · −0.6 pts
- Tazewell County3.7% · −0.9 pts
- Union County3.7% · −0.8 pts
- Vermilion County4.7% · −1.4 pts
- Wabash County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Warren County3.6% · −1.1 pts
- Washington County2.9% · −0.6 pts
- Wayne County4.3% · −0.5 pts
- White County3.9% · −1.1 pts
- Whiteside County3.8% · −1.1 pts
- Will County5.1% · +0.8 pts
- Williamson County3.6% · −0.9 pts
- Winnebago County4.6% · −1.0 pts
- Woodford County3.0% · −0.9 pts