BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Nebraska Unemployment Rate by County
Nebraska statewide was 2.8% in August 2026, against 2.8% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 93 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.
93 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adams County2.5% · −0.1 pts
- Antelope County2.2% · 0.0 pts
- Arthur County3.5% · −0.4 pts
- Banner County3.6% · +0.3 pts
- Blaine County3.6% · +0.8 pts
- Boone County2.1% · +0.2 pts
- Box Butte County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Boyd County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Brown County2.0% · 0.0 pts
- Buffalo County2.5% · +0.1 pts
- Burt County2.8% · −0.5 pts
- Butler County2.1% · −0.1 pts
- Cass County2.8% · +0.1 pts
- Cedar County2.0% · −0.4 pts
- Chase County3.0% · +0.4 pts
- Cherry County1.8% · −0.1 pts
- Cheyenne County2.7% · 0.0 pts
- Clay County2.1% · −0.4 pts
- Colfax County2.5% · −0.1 pts
- Cuming County1.8% · −0.1 pts
- Custer County2.4% · 0.0 pts
- Dakota County2.9% · −0.1 pts
- Dawes County2.9% · −0.1 pts
- Dawson County16.4% · +13.7 pts
- Deuel County3.2% · +0.6 pts
- Dixon County2.4% · −0.1 pts
- Dodge County2.4% · −0.5 pts
- Douglas County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Dundy County2.0% · +0.1 pts
- Fillmore County2.0% · +0.1 pts
- Franklin County2.0% · −0.6 pts
- Frontier County3.6% · +0.5 pts
- Furnas County2.5% · +0.1 pts
- Gage County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Garden County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Garfield County2.1% · −0.4 pts
- Gosper County2.9% · +0.5 pts
- Grant County2.4% · −0.3 pts
- Greeley County2.5% · −0.4 pts
- Hall County2.7% · −0.4 pts
- Hamilton County1.9% · −0.3 pts
- Harlan County1.8% · −0.1 pts
- Hayes County3.2% · +0.9 pts
- Hitchcock County3.1% · +0.5 pts
- Holt County1.9% · −0.2 pts
- Hooker County4.8% · +1.5 pts
- Howard County2.1% · −0.1 pts
- Jefferson County2.5% · −0.4 pts
- Johnson County3.0% · −0.6 pts
- Kearney County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Keith County2.2% · 0.0 pts
- Keya Paha County3.9% · +0.4 pts
- Kimball County2.0% · −0.5 pts
- Knox County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Lancaster County2.6% · −0.2 pts
- Lincoln County2.5% · +0.1 pts
- Logan County3.9% · +1.1 pts
- Loup County3.3% · +0.1 pts
- Madison County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- McPherson County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Merrick County2.2% · 0.0 pts
- Morrill County2.7% · −0.3 pts
- Nance County2.4% · +0.3 pts
- Nemaha County3.2% · −0.1 pts
- Nuckolls County2.0% · +0.1 pts
- Otoe County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Pawnee County2.8% · −0.1 pts
- Perkins County2.0% · 0.0 pts
- Phelps County2.2% · 0.0 pts
- Pierce County1.7% · −0.5 pts
- Platte County2.3% · −0.2 pts
- Polk County2.6% · +0.2 pts
- Red Willow County2.6% · +0.1 pts
- Richardson County2.8% · +0.3 pts
- Rock County2.0% · −0.1 pts
- Saline County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Sarpy County2.6% · −0.1 pts
- Saunders County2.2% · −0.2 pts
- Scotts Bluff County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Seward County2.6% · 0.0 pts
- Sheridan County2.5% · 0.0 pts
- Sherman County2.4% · +0.2 pts
- Sioux County2.4% · −0.1 pts
- Stanton County2.1% · −0.4 pts
- Thayer County2.2% · −0.1 pts
- Thomas County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Thurston County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Valley County2.0% · −0.1 pts
- Washington County2.3% · −0.3 pts
- Wayne County3.0% · −0.3 pts
- Webster County2.2% · −0.2 pts
- Wheeler County2.2% · +0.2 pts
- York County2.4% · −0.1 pts