BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Kentucky Unemployment Rate by County
Kentucky statewide was 4.3% in August 2026, against 4.4% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 120 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.
120 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adair County4.2% · −0.4 pts
- Allen County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Anderson County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Ballard County4.4% · −0.3 pts
- Barren County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Bath County4.9% · −0.6 pts
- Bell County5.3% · −0.7 pts
- Boone County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Bourbon County3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Boyd County4.9% · −0.3 pts
- Boyle County4.4% · −0.4 pts
- Bracken County4.0% · −0.8 pts
- Breathitt County5.0% · −0.6 pts
- Breckinridge County4.6% · −0.5 pts
- Bullitt County4.4% · +0.3 pts
- Butler County4.7% · +0.1 pts
- Caldwell County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Calloway County4.7% · −0.4 pts
- Campbell County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Carlisle County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Carroll County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Carter County6.5% · −0.2 pts
- Casey County4.4% · −0.5 pts
- Christian County5.4% · 0.0 pts
- Clark County3.7% · −0.4 pts
- Clay County5.6% · −0.5 pts
- Clinton County4.9% · −0.3 pts
- Crittenden County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Cumberland County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Daviess County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Edmonson County5.0% · −0.1 pts
- Elliott County7.0% · −0.1 pts
- Estill County5.2% · −0.1 pts
- Fayette County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Fleming County4.6% · −0.6 pts
- Floyd County5.5% · −0.5 pts
- Franklin County3.6% · −0.3 pts
- Fulton County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Gallatin County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Garrard County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Grant County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Graves County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Grayson County5.5% · −0.2 pts
- Green County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Greenup County5.4% · −0.2 pts
- Hancock County4.3% · −0.4 pts
- Hardin County4.7% · 0.0 pts
- Harlan County5.9% · −0.9 pts
- Harrison County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Hart County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Henderson County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Henry County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Hickman County4.5% · +0.4 pts
- Hopkins County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Jackson County6.5% · −0.4 pts
- Jefferson County4.3% · 0.0 pts
- Jessamine County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Johnson County5.7% · −0.4 pts
- Kenton County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Knott County5.8% · −0.3 pts
- Knox County5.8% · −0.5 pts
- Larue County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Laurel County5.2% · −0.1 pts
- Lawrence County6.3% · −0.3 pts
- Lee County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- Leslie County4.8% · −0.5 pts
- Letcher County4.7% · −0.9 pts
- Lewis County6.9% · −0.3 pts
- Lincoln County4.6% · −0.4 pts
- Livingston County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Logan County4.3% · 0.0 pts
- Lyon County4.2% · +0.3 pts
- Madison County4.8% · +0.2 pts
- Magoffin County7.6% · −0.6 pts
- Marion County4.7% · −0.4 pts
- Marshall County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Martin County8.5% · −0.6 pts
- Mason County5.2% · −0.4 pts
- McCracken County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- McCreary County5.7% · −0.2 pts
- McLean County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Meade County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Menifee County5.2% · −0.2 pts
- Mercer County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Metcalfe County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Monroe County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Montgomery County4.4% · −0.3 pts
- Morgan County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- Muhlenberg County4.9% · −0.4 pts
- Nelson County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Nicholas County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Ohio County4.6% · −0.8 pts
- Oldham County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Owen County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Owsley County4.6% · −0.5 pts
- Pendleton County3.8% · −0.2 pts
- Perry County4.2% · −0.6 pts
- Pike County6.1% · 0.0 pts
- Powell County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Pulaski County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Robertson County5.2% · +0.2 pts
- Rockcastle County4.9% · 0.0 pts
- Rowan County5.1% · −0.6 pts
- Russell County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Scott County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Shelby County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Simpson County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Spencer County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Taylor County4.7% · −0.5 pts
- Todd County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Trigg County4.5% · 0.0 pts
- Trimble County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Union County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Warren County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Washington County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Wayne County5.7% · 0.0 pts
- Webster County4.1% · −0.3 pts
- Whitley County4.3% · −0.5 pts
- Wolfe County7.1% · 0.0 pts
- Woodford County3.2% · −0.4 pts