BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Minnesota Unemployment Rate by County
Minnesota statewide was 4.8% in August 2026, against 4.0% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 87 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.
87 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Aitkin County6.2% · +0.7 pts
- Anoka County5.0% · +0.8 pts
- Becker County4.5% · +0.8 pts
- Beltrami County6.4% · +1.2 pts
- Benton County5.2% · +0.6 pts
- Big Stone County5.3% · +1.7 pts
- Blue Earth County4.1% · +0.5 pts
- Brown County4.3% · +0.7 pts
- Carlton County5.2% · +0.7 pts
- Carver County4.2% · +0.7 pts
- Cass County5.4% · +0.9 pts
- Chippewa County5.3% · +1.0 pts
- Chisago County4.9% · +0.8 pts
- Clay County4.3% · +0.8 pts
- Clearwater County7.6% · +1.5 pts
- Cook County3.9% · +0.6 pts
- Cottonwood County5.5% · +1.0 pts
- Crow Wing County4.9% · +0.9 pts
- Dakota County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Dodge County4.4% · +0.7 pts
- Douglas County4.0% · +0.7 pts
- Faribault County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Fillmore County3.9% · +0.7 pts
- Freeborn County4.5% · +0.8 pts
- Goodhue County4.9% · +1.0 pts
- Grant County5.0% · +0.5 pts
- Hennepin County4.6% · +0.6 pts
- Houston County3.6% · +0.5 pts
- Hubbard County5.1% · +0.3 pts
- Isanti County5.6% · +0.7 pts
- Itasca County6.3% · +0.6 pts
- Jackson County4.6% · +0.5 pts
- Kanabec County6.3% · +0.6 pts
- Kandiyohi County5.2% · +1.3 pts
- Kittson County5.8% · +2.0 pts
- Koochiching County6.5% · +1.3 pts
- Lac qui Parle County4.0% · +1.2 pts
- Lake County4.3% · +0.8 pts
- Lake of the Woods County6.0% · +1.3 pts
- Le Sueur County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Lincoln County4.4% · +0.7 pts
- Lyon County4.7% · +0.7 pts
- Mahnomen County6.6% · +0.6 pts
- Marshall County6.0% · +1.1 pts
- Martin County4.3% · 0.0 pts
- McLeod County5.0% · +0.7 pts
- Meeker County4.9% · +0.6 pts
- Mille Lacs County5.8% · +0.8 pts
- Morrison County5.3% · +0.5 pts
- Mower County4.4% · +0.6 pts
- Murray County4.8% · +0.7 pts
- Nicollet County3.7% · +0.5 pts
- Nobles County4.8% · +0.5 pts
- Norman County4.6% · +1.5 pts
- Olmsted County3.8% · +0.7 pts
- Otter Tail County4.8% · +1.0 pts
- Pennington County5.3% · +1.4 pts
- Pine County6.6% · +0.9 pts
- Pipestone County4.1% · +0.8 pts
- Polk County5.0% · +0.8 pts
- Pope County4.5% · +1.0 pts
- Ramsey County5.0% · +0.8 pts
- Red Lake County6.9% · +0.6 pts
- Redwood County4.6% · +0.9 pts
- Renville County5.4% · +0.6 pts
- Rice County4.9% · +0.9 pts
- Rock County3.7% · +0.5 pts
- Roseau County4.9% · +0.2 pts
- Scott County4.2% · +0.6 pts
- Sherburne County4.8% · +0.8 pts
- Sibley County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- St. Louis County5.4% · +0.6 pts
- Stearns County4.8% · +0.8 pts
- Steele County5.6% · +0.9 pts
- Stevens County3.3% · +0.9 pts
- Swift County8.0% · +4.0 pts
- Todd County5.4% · +0.5 pts
- Traverse County4.0% · +0.7 pts
- Wabasha County4.1% · +0.9 pts
- Wadena County6.1% · +0.8 pts
- Waseca County5.0% · +0.6 pts
- Washington County4.5% · +0.8 pts
- Watonwan County4.5% · +0.4 pts
- Wilkin County4.2% · +0.4 pts
- Winona County4.0% · +0.7 pts
- Wright County4.5% · +0.7 pts
- Yellow Medicine County5.9% · +2.2 pts