BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Michigan Unemployment Rate by County
Michigan statewide was 5.2% in August 2026, against 4.9% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 83 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.
83 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Alcona County7.2% · −0.3 pts
- Alger County5.3% · −0.6 pts
- Allegan County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Alpena County5.3% · 0.0 pts
- Antrim County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Arenac County6.1% · −0.3 pts
- Baraga County6.0% · −0.7 pts
- Barry County4.6% · −0.1 pts
- Bay County5.4% · −0.3 pts
- Benzie County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Berrien County4.8% · −0.3 pts
- Branch County3.9% · −0.5 pts
- Calhoun County5.3% · −0.5 pts
- Cass County4.8% · −0.1 pts
- Charlevoix County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Cheboygan County4.6% · −0.1 pts
- Chippewa County5.3% · −0.9 pts
- Clare County6.1% · −0.7 pts
- Clinton County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Crawford County5.4% · −0.4 pts
- Delta County5.1% · −0.6 pts
- Dickinson County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Eaton County4.4% · −0.3 pts
- Emmet County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Genesee County5.8% · −0.5 pts
- Gladwin County5.8% · −0.6 pts
- Gogebic County6.1% · −0.1 pts
- Grand Traverse County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Gratiot County5.3% · +0.1 pts
- Hillsdale County4.7% · −0.4 pts
- Houghton County5.1% · −0.6 pts
- Huron County5.1% · −0.5 pts
- Ingham County4.8% · −0.4 pts
- Ionia County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Iosco County6.7% · 0.0 pts
- Iron County6.2% · −0.3 pts
- Isabella County5.1% · −0.5 pts
- Jackson County5.0% · −0.4 pts
- Kalamazoo County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Kalkaska County4.8% · −0.2 pts
- Kent County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Keweenaw County5.3% · −0.3 pts
- Lake County6.2% · −0.5 pts
- Lapeer County5.1% · +0.9 pts
- Leelanau County3.6% · −0.4 pts
- Lenawee County4.8% · −0.4 pts
- Livingston County4.2% · +0.8 pts
- Luce County5.8% · −0.6 pts
- Mackinac County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Macomb County5.7% · +1.2 pts
- Manistee County5.0% · −0.6 pts
- Marquette County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- Mason County5.7% · +0.3 pts
- Mecosta County5.7% · −0.9 pts
- Menominee County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- Midland County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Missaukee County4.4% · −0.4 pts
- Monroe County5.0% · −0.8 pts
- Montcalm County4.5% · −0.5 pts
- Montmorency County6.1% · −0.1 pts
- Muskegon County5.3% · −0.4 pts
- Newaygo County5.1% · −0.3 pts
- Oakland County4.7% · +1.0 pts
- Oceana County5.4% · −0.3 pts
- Ogemaw County6.7% · −0.6 pts
- Ontonagon County6.0% · −0.8 pts
- Osceola County5.2% · −1.3 pts
- Oscoda County8.6% · −0.1 pts
- Otsego County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Ottawa County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Presque Isle County6.9% · −0.4 pts
- Roscommon County6.4% · −0.7 pts
- Saginaw County5.8% · −0.4 pts
- Sanilac County5.5% · −0.7 pts
- Schoolcraft County5.8% · −0.7 pts
- Shiawassee County4.8% · −0.5 pts
- St. Clair County5.3% · +0.9 pts
- St. Joseph County5.0% · 0.0 pts
- Tuscola County5.6% · −0.9 pts
- Van Buren County4.6% · −0.4 pts
- Washtenaw County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Wayne County6.9% · +1.1 pts
- Wexford County5.0% · −0.4 pts