BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Montana Unemployment Rate by County
Montana statewide was 3.0% in August 2026, against 3.2% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 56 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.
56 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Beaverhead County2.1% · −0.6 pts
- Big Horn County6.2% · −0.4 pts
- Blaine County2.7% · −0.2 pts
- Broadwater County2.9% · +0.3 pts
- Carbon County2.4% · −0.5 pts
- Carter County1.4% · −0.2 pts
- Cascade County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Chouteau County2.8% · +0.2 pts
- Custer County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Daniels County2.3% · +0.3 pts
- Dawson County2.7% · +0.2 pts
- Deer Lodge County3.6% · −0.3 pts
- Fallon County2.1% · +0.1 pts
- Fergus County2.5% · −0.2 pts
- Flathead County2.7% · −0.3 pts
- Gallatin County2.3% · −0.1 pts
- Garfield County1.8% · −0.5 pts
- Glacier County5.0% · +0.3 pts
- Golden Valley County2.8% · +0.2 pts
- Granite County3.9% · −0.5 pts
- Hill County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Jefferson County2.6% · −0.2 pts
- Judith Basin County2.2% · −0.6 pts
- Lake County3.3% · −0.9 pts
- Lewis and Clark County2.8% · −0.3 pts
- Liberty County2.3% · +0.3 pts
- Lincoln County5.1% · −0.2 pts
- Madison County4.8% · +0.7 pts
- McCone County3.0% · +0.6 pts
- Meagher County2.2% · 0.0 pts
- Mineral County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Missoula County2.8% · −0.1 pts
- Musselshell County4.2% · −0.8 pts
- Park County2.1% · −0.1 pts
- Petroleum County3.7% · +0.3 pts
- Phillips County2.6% · −0.6 pts
- Pondera County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Powder River County1.7% · −0.1 pts
- Powell County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Prairie County2.3% · +0.7 pts
- Ravalli County3.2% · −0.4 pts
- Richland County2.4% · 0.0 pts
- Roosevelt County4.5% · −0.4 pts
- Rosebud County4.3% · +0.8 pts
- Sanders County4.6% · −0.4 pts
- Sheridan County2.1% · −0.7 pts
- Silver Bow County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Stillwater County2.8% · −0.4 pts
- Sweet Grass County2.0% · −1.1 pts
- Teton County2.2% · −0.6 pts
- Toole County2.4% · −0.6 pts
- Treasure County1.6% · −0.6 pts
- Valley County2.5% · −0.4 pts
- Wheatland County3.6% · −0.2 pts
- Wibaux County2.2% · −1.1 pts
- Yellowstone County3.1% · −0.2 pts