BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Louisiana Unemployment Rate by County
Louisiana statewide was 3.7% in August 2026, against 4.4% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 64 parishes 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.
64 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Acadia Parish3.6% · −0.5 pts
- Allen Parish4.2% · −0.7 pts
- Ascension Parish3.1% · −0.7 pts
- Assumption Parish3.7% · −1.2 pts
- Avoyelles Parish4.1% · −0.5 pts
- Beauregard Parish3.7% · −0.6 pts
- Bienville Parish5.0% · −0.4 pts
- Bossier Parish3.3% · −0.6 pts
- Caddo Parish3.8% · −0.6 pts
- Calcasieu Parish3.8% · −0.7 pts
- Caldwell Parish3.9% · −1.2 pts
- Cameron Parish3.6% · −0.7 pts
- Catahoula Parish4.3% · −1.0 pts
- Claiborne Parish5.4% · −0.6 pts
- Concordia Parish5.3% · −0.8 pts
- De Soto Parish3.8% · −1.0 pts
- East Baton Rouge Parish3.7% · −0.7 pts
- East Carroll Parish10.0% · −2.8 pts
- East Feliciana Parish3.8% · −0.6 pts
- Evangeline Parish4.0% · −0.9 pts
- Franklin Parish4.7% · −0.6 pts
- Grant Parish3.5% · −0.7 pts
- Iberia Parish3.9% · −0.5 pts
- Iberville Parish4.3% · −0.9 pts
- Jackson Parish3.9% · −0.8 pts
- Jefferson Davis Parish3.8% · −0.8 pts
- Jefferson Parish3.5% · −0.6 pts
- Lafayette Parish3.2% · −0.4 pts
- Lafourche Parish3.3% · −0.6 pts
- LaSalle Parish3.0% · −0.7 pts
- Lincoln Parish4.1% · −0.6 pts
- Livingston Parish3.3% · −0.6 pts
- Madison Parish5.2% · −1.0 pts
- Morehouse Parish5.0% · −0.6 pts
- Natchitoches Parish5.1% · −0.8 pts
- Orleans Parish4.4% · −0.6 pts
- Ouachita Parish3.7% · −0.8 pts
- Plaquemines Parish3.3% · −0.6 pts
- Pointe Coupee Parish4.0% · −1.0 pts
- Rapides Parish3.5% · −0.4 pts
- Red River Parish4.0% · −1.3 pts
- Richland Parish4.4% · −0.7 pts
- Sabine Parish4.1% · −0.6 pts
- St. Bernard Parish4.0% · −0.9 pts
- St. Charles Parish3.4% · −0.4 pts
- St. Helena Parish5.6% · −1.6 pts
- St. James Parish4.4% · −0.7 pts
- St. John the Baptist Parish4.7% · −0.6 pts
- St. Landry Parish4.6% · −0.5 pts
- St. Martin Parish3.6% · −0.3 pts
- St. Mary Parish4.3% · −0.8 pts
- St. Tammany Parish3.4% · −0.6 pts
- Tangipahoa Parish4.4% · −0.7 pts
- Tensas Parish6.2% · −0.4 pts
- Terrebonne Parish3.4% · −0.5 pts
- Union Parish4.2% · −0.8 pts
- Vermilion Parish3.5% · −0.6 pts
- Vernon Parish4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Washington Parish4.2% · −0.6 pts
- Webster Parish4.4% · −0.8 pts
- West Baton Rouge Parish3.8% · −0.4 pts
- West Carroll Parish5.1% · −0.7 pts
- West Feliciana Parish2.6% · −0.6 pts
- Winn Parish4.0% · −0.6 pts