BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Missouri Unemployment Rate by County
Missouri statewide was 3.9% in August 2026, against 4.3% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 115 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.
115 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adair County5.3% · −0.1 pts
- Andrew County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Atchison County2.9% · −0.8 pts
- Audrain County3.8% · −0.6 pts
- Barry County4.5% · −0.5 pts
- Barton County3.6% · −1.0 pts
- Bates County3.7% · −0.4 pts
- Benton County4.9% · −0.6 pts
- Bollinger County3.5% · −0.4 pts
- Boone County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Buchanan County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Butler County5.3% · −0.4 pts
- Caldwell County3.7% · −0.6 pts
- Callaway County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Camden County3.4% · −0.6 pts
- Cape Girardeau County3.6% · −0.4 pts
- Carroll County3.7% · −1.1 pts
- Carter County5.0% · +0.2 pts
- Cass County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Cedar County4.8% · −0.3 pts
- Chariton County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Christian County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Clark County3.9% · −1.2 pts
- Clay County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Clinton County3.6% · −0.4 pts
- Cole County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- Cooper County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Crawford County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- Dade County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Dallas County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Daviess County3.0% · −0.7 pts
- DeKalb County3.9% · −0.8 pts
- Dent County4.1% · −0.5 pts
- Douglas County4.3% · −0.7 pts
- Dunklin County6.0% · 0.0 pts
- Franklin County3.6% · −0.3 pts
- Gasconade County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Gentry County3.4% · −0.8 pts
- Greene County3.6% · −0.4 pts
- Grundy County4.6% · −0.5 pts
- Harrison County3.5% · −0.7 pts
- Henry County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Hickory County5.7% · −1.6 pts
- Holt County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Howard County3.9% · −0.8 pts
- Howell County4.5% · −0.5 pts
- Iron County4.8% · −0.9 pts
- Jackson County3.8% · −0.6 pts
- Jasper County3.7% · −0.4 pts
- Jefferson County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Johnson County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Knox County4.4% · −0.9 pts
- Laclede County4.6% · −0.8 pts
- Lafayette County3.7% · −0.4 pts
- Lawrence County4.2% · −0.5 pts
- Lewis County4.5% · −0.7 pts
- Lincoln County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Linn County4.0% · −0.6 pts
- Livingston County3.4% · −0.7 pts
- Macon County4.2% · −0.6 pts
- Madison County4.4% · −0.7 pts
- Maries County3.5% · −0.8 pts
- Marion County3.9% · −0.6 pts
- McDonald County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Mercer County3.8% · −0.8 pts
- Miller County3.4% · −0.2 pts
- Mississippi County6.2% · −0.4 pts
- Moniteau County3.3% · −0.4 pts
- Monroe County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- Montgomery County3.4% · −0.2 pts
- Morgan County4.5% · −0.7 pts
- New Madrid County5.0% · −0.7 pts
- Newton County3.8% · −0.5 pts
- Nodaway County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Oregon County3.9% · −0.9 pts
- Osage County3.1% · −0.5 pts
- Ozark County5.3% · −1.0 pts
- Pemiscot County5.7% · −0.8 pts
- Perry County3.1% · −0.2 pts
- Pettis County4.3% · −0.5 pts
- Phelps County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Pike County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- Platte County3.2% · −0.4 pts
- Polk County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Pulaski County4.5% · −0.1 pts
- Putnam County3.2% · −0.7 pts
- Ralls County3.2% · −0.8 pts
- Randolph County4.6% · +0.4 pts
- Ray County3.8% · −0.2 pts
- Reynolds County4.4% · −0.6 pts
- Ripley County5.1% · −0.8 pts
- Saline County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Schuyler County3.1% · −0.9 pts
- Scotland County3.4% · −0.5 pts
- Scott County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Shannon County5.2% · −0.6 pts
- Shelby County3.2% · −0.4 pts
- St. Charles County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- St. Clair County4.2% · −0.9 pts
- St. Francois County4.4% · −0.5 pts
- St. Louis city4.6% · −0.4 pts
- St. Louis County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Ste. Genevieve County2.9% · −0.6 pts
- Stoddard County4.4% · −0.4 pts
- Stone County4.1% · −0.7 pts
- Sullivan County4.5% · +0.5 pts
- Taney County4.3% · −0.4 pts
- Texas County4.4% · −0.6 pts
- Vernon County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Warren County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Washington County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- Wayne County5.3% · −0.7 pts
- Webster County3.9% · −0.5 pts
- Worth County3.2% · −0.6 pts
- Wright County4.5% · −1.1 pts