BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
New York Unemployment Rate by County
New York statewide was 4.6% in August 2026, against 4.9% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 62 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.
62 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Albany County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Allegany County5.0% · +0.1 pts
- Bronx County7.1% · −1.0 pts
- Broome County4.5% · 0.0 pts
- Cattaraugus County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Cayuga County4.0% · 0.0 pts
- Chautauqua County4.6% · +0.1 pts
- Chemung County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Chenango County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Clinton County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Columbia County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Cortland County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Delaware County4.5% · +0.2 pts
- Dutchess County3.9% · +0.2 pts
- Erie County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Essex County3.3% · +0.1 pts
- Franklin County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Fulton County4.4% · +0.2 pts
- Genesee County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Greene County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Hamilton County3.7% · +0.2 pts
- Herkimer County4.2% · +0.2 pts
- Jefferson County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Kings County5.3% · −0.9 pts
- Lewis County3.7% · 0.0 pts
- Livingston County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Madison County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Monroe County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Montgomery County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Nassau County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- New York County4.7% · −0.7 pts
- Niagara County4.7% · +0.1 pts
- Oneida County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Onondaga County4.1% · +0.2 pts
- Ontario County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Orange County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- Orleans County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Oswego County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Otsego County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Putnam County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Queens County4.7% · −0.7 pts
- Rensselaer County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Richmond County4.8% · −0.8 pts
- Rockland County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Saratoga County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Schenectady County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Schoharie County4.1% · +0.2 pts
- Schuyler County3.8% · +0.3 pts
- Seneca County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- St. Lawrence County5.2% · +0.1 pts
- Steuben County4.1% · +0.2 pts
- Suffolk County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Sullivan County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Tioga County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Tompkins County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Ulster County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Warren County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Washington County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Wayne County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Westchester County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Wyoming County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Yates County2.9% · −0.3 pts