BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Mississippi Unemployment Rate by County
Mississippi statewide was 3.2% in August 2026, against 4.1% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 82 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.
82 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adams County4.7% · −1.4 pts
- Alcorn County2.9% · −1.0 pts
- Amite County3.7% · −1.5 pts
- Attala County3.2% · −0.9 pts
- Benton County3.3% · −1.1 pts
- Bolivar County4.3% · −0.7 pts
- Calhoun County2.9% · −1.1 pts
- Carroll County3.6% · −1.2 pts
- Chickasaw County4.2% · −1.1 pts
- Choctaw County3.5% · −1.5 pts
- Claiborne County7.2% · −2.7 pts
- Clarke County3.4% · −0.9 pts
- Clay County4.1% · −0.9 pts
- Coahoma County6.2% · −0.4 pts
- Copiah County3.5% · −0.8 pts
- Covington County3.5% · −0.5 pts
- DeSoto County3.2% · −0.6 pts
- Forrest County3.0% · −0.9 pts
- Franklin County4.0% · −1.6 pts
- George County3.8% · −1.7 pts
- Greene County5.9% · −1.9 pts
- Grenada County3.5% · −0.9 pts
- Hancock County2.6% · −0.8 pts
- Harrison County3.0% · −0.8 pts
- Hinds County3.4% · −0.7 pts
- Holmes County5.7% · −0.9 pts
- Humphreys County5.5% · −0.9 pts
- Issaquena County8.1% · −0.7 pts
- Itawamba County3.0% · −0.8 pts
- Jackson County3.0% · −0.9 pts
- Jasper County3.6% · −0.8 pts
- Jefferson County9.1% · −1.2 pts
- Jefferson Davis County3.2% · −0.8 pts
- Jones County2.4% · −0.9 pts
- Kemper County4.2% · −1.1 pts
- Lafayette County2.6% · −1.1 pts
- Lamar County2.8% · −0.8 pts
- Lauderdale County3.3% · −0.9 pts
- Lawrence County3.2% · −1.5 pts
- Leake County2.6% · −1.1 pts
- Lee County2.9% · −0.9 pts
- Leflore County5.7% · −0.6 pts
- Lincoln County3.2% · −1.1 pts
- Lowndes County3.6% · −0.7 pts
- Madison County2.6% · −0.7 pts
- Marion County3.4% · −1.1 pts
- Marshall County3.8% · −0.9 pts
- Monroe County3.8% · −1.4 pts
- Montgomery County3.3% · −0.9 pts
- Neshoba County2.7% · −1.2 pts
- Newton County3.3% · −0.8 pts
- Noxubee County4.3% · −1.1 pts
- Oktibbeha County3.4% · −1.2 pts
- Panola County3.9% · −1.0 pts
- Pearl River County3.1% · −0.9 pts
- Perry County3.7% · −1.2 pts
- Pike County3.8% · −1.3 pts
- Pontotoc County3.2% · −1.0 pts
- Prentiss County3.1% · −1.0 pts
- Quitman County3.8% · −0.9 pts
- Rankin County2.4% · −0.7 pts
- Scott County2.7% · −0.9 pts
- Sharkey County4.8% · −0.9 pts
- Simpson County2.9% · −0.9 pts
- Smith County3.0% · −0.9 pts
- Stone County3.2% · −1.0 pts
- Sunflower County4.2% · −0.6 pts
- Tallahatchie County2.8% · −0.7 pts
- Tate County3.1% · −0.9 pts
- Tippah County2.7% · −1.0 pts
- Tishomingo County3.1% · −1.0 pts
- Tunica County5.0% · +0.2 pts
- Union County2.6% · −0.8 pts
- Walthall County3.4% · −1.4 pts
- Warren County3.6% · −0.9 pts
- Washington County4.6% · −0.8 pts
- Wayne County3.4% · −0.8 pts
- Webster County2.6% · −1.0 pts
- Wilkinson County4.2% · −2.1 pts
- Winston County3.2% · −1.2 pts
- Yalobusha County3.3% · −1.0 pts
- Yazoo County4.1% · −1.0 pts