BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Kansas Unemployment Rate by County
Kansas statewide was 4.4% in August 2026, against 4.2% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 105 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.
105 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Allen County5.4% · +0.9 pts
- Anderson County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Atchison County4.5% · +0.2 pts
- Barber County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Barton County4.4% · +0.3 pts
- Bourbon County6.3% · +0.3 pts
- Brown County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Butler County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Chase County5.0% · +0.8 pts
- Chautauqua County5.9% · +1.1 pts
- Cherokee County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Cheyenne County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Clark County3.7% · +0.2 pts
- Clay County4.4% · +0.4 pts
- Cloud County3.8% · +0.3 pts
- Coffey County5.3% · +0.4 pts
- Comanche County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Cowley County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Crawford County4.7% · −0.9 pts
- Decatur County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Dickinson County4.3% · +0.2 pts
- Doniphan County4.6% · +0.3 pts
- Douglas County4.3% · +0.4 pts
- Edwards County3.9% · +0.2 pts
- Elk County5.2% · −0.1 pts
- Ellis County3.6% · +0.2 pts
- Ellsworth County3.5% · +0.2 pts
- Finney County3.6% · +0.2 pts
- Ford County3.4% · +0.1 pts
- Franklin County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Geary County6.2% · +0.8 pts
- Gove County4.3% · +0.2 pts
- Graham County4.8% · +0.5 pts
- Grant County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Gray County3.3% · +0.2 pts
- Greeley County3.4% · −0.6 pts
- Greenwood County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- Hamilton County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Harper County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Harvey County4.2% · +0.2 pts
- Haskell County3.9% · +0.2 pts
- Hodgeman County3.5% · −0.7 pts
- Jackson County4.0% · +0.6 pts
- Jefferson County4.2% · +0.4 pts
- Jewell County5.0% · +0.1 pts
- Johnson County4.1% · +0.2 pts
- Kearny County3.9% · +0.2 pts
- Kingman County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Kiowa County3.9% · +0.3 pts
- Labette County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Lane County5.2% · +0.5 pts
- Leavenworth County4.8% · +0.4 pts
- Lincoln County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Linn County5.3% · −0.6 pts
- Logan County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Lyon County5.2% · −0.4 pts
- Marion County4.5% · +0.5 pts
- Marshall County4.1% · +0.6 pts
- McPherson County3.7% · +0.2 pts
- Meade County3.7% · 0.0 pts
- Miami County4.2% · +0.3 pts
- Mitchell County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- Montgomery County5.3% · +0.5 pts
- Morris County3.9% · +0.4 pts
- Morton County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Nemaha County3.2% · +0.1 pts
- Neosho County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Ness County3.1% · −0.4 pts
- Norton County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Osage County4.5% · +0.6 pts
- Osborne County4.0% · +0.3 pts
- Ottawa County3.7% · +0.3 pts
- Pawnee County3.9% · +0.3 pts
- Phillips County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Pottawatomie County4.2% · +0.5 pts
- Pratt County4.0% · +0.3 pts
- Rawlins County3.4% · +0.1 pts
- Reno County4.7% · +0.2 pts
- Republic County3.8% · +0.4 pts
- Rice County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Riley County4.4% · +0.6 pts
- Rooks County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Rush County4.0% · 0.0 pts
- Russell County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Saline County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Scott County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Sedgwick County4.7% · +0.3 pts
- Seward County4.2% · +0.8 pts
- Shawnee County4.5% · +0.3 pts
- Sheridan County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Sherman County3.8% · +0.1 pts
- Smith County4.1% · +0.5 pts
- Stafford County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Stanton County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Stevens County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Sumner County4.6% · +0.1 pts
- Thomas County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Trego County3.9% · −1.2 pts
- Wabaunsee County4.1% · +0.5 pts
- Wallace County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Washington County3.8% · +0.2 pts
- Wichita County3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Wilson County5.3% · +0.2 pts
- Woodson County6.0% · −0.3 pts
- Wyandotte County5.1% · 0.0 pts