BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Oregon Unemployment Rate by County
Oregon statewide was 5.1% in August 2026, against 5.5% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 36 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.
36 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Baker County5.0% · −0.4 pts
- Benton County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Clackamas County4.8% · −0.4 pts
- Clatsop County4.6% · −0.6 pts
- Columbia County5.7% · −0.8 pts
- Coos County5.7% · −0.7 pts
- Crook County5.6% · +0.1 pts
- Curry County5.4% · −1.3 pts
- Deschutes County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Douglas County6.1% · −0.5 pts
- Gilliam County4.1% · −1.7 pts
- Grant County5.6% · −0.6 pts
- Harney County4.3% · +0.2 pts
- Hood River County3.7% · −0.7 pts
- Jackson County5.9% · −0.1 pts
- Jefferson County5.5% · −0.4 pts
- Josephine County7.2% · −0.5 pts
- Klamath County6.8% · −0.4 pts
- Lake County5.5% · +0.2 pts
- Lane County5.3% · −0.3 pts
- Lincoln County5.7% · −0.4 pts
- Linn County5.3% · −0.6 pts
- Malheur County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Marion County5.1% · −0.2 pts
- Morrow County4.7% · −0.3 pts
- Multnomah County5.1% · −0.4 pts
- Polk County5.0% · −0.2 pts
- Sherman County4.1% · −1.5 pts
- Tillamook County4.9% · −0.3 pts
- Umatilla County5.1% · −0.2 pts
- Union County4.6% · −0.6 pts
- Wallowa County4.5% · −0.2 pts
- Wasco County5.3% · −0.2 pts
- Washington County4.7% · −0.6 pts
- Wheeler County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Yamhill County4.6% · −0.7 pts