BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Pennsylvania Unemployment Rate by County
Pennsylvania statewide was 4.1% in August 2026, against 5.2% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 67 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.
67 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adams County3.5% · −1.2 pts
- Allegheny County3.8% · −1.0 pts
- Armstrong County4.4% · −1.1 pts
- Beaver County4.3% · −0.9 pts
- Bedford County3.7% · −1.1 pts
- Berks County4.3% · −1.3 pts
- Blair County3.8% · −1.1 pts
- Bradford County3.7% · −1.1 pts
- Bucks County3.7% · −1.0 pts
- Butler County3.5% · −1.1 pts
- Cambria County4.6% · −1.6 pts
- Cameron County5.8% · −0.7 pts
- Carbon County4.3% · −1.2 pts
- Centre County3.0% · −1.5 pts
- Chester County3.3% · −0.9 pts
- Clarion County4.0% · −1.0 pts
- Clearfield County4.1% · −1.0 pts
- Clinton County4.0% · −1.3 pts
- Columbia County4.4% · −1.4 pts
- Crawford County3.9% · −1.1 pts
- Cumberland County3.3% · −1.1 pts
- Dauphin County4.1% · −1.3 pts
- Delaware County4.0% · −1.3 pts
- Elk County4.0% · −1.3 pts
- Erie County3.9% · −1.2 pts
- Fayette County5.2% · −1.0 pts
- Forest County5.3% · −1.2 pts
- Franklin County3.5% · −1.3 pts
- Fulton County3.4% · −1.5 pts
- Greene County4.8% · −1.2 pts
- Huntingdon County4.1% · −1.4 pts
- Indiana County4.4% · −1.6 pts
- Jefferson County4.2% · −1.0 pts
- Juniata County4.0% · −1.4 pts
- Lackawanna County4.6% · −1.1 pts
- Lancaster County3.2% · −1.1 pts
- Lawrence County4.0% · −1.2 pts
- Lebanon County3.7% · −1.2 pts
- Lehigh County4.4% · −1.2 pts
- Luzerne County5.2% · −1.0 pts
- Lycoming County4.0% · −1.3 pts
- McKean County4.3% · −1.0 pts
- Mercer County4.3% · −1.7 pts
- Mifflin County3.1% · −1.3 pts
- Monroe County4.8% · −0.9 pts
- Montgomery County3.4% · −1.0 pts
- Montour County3.1% · −0.7 pts
- Northampton County4.1% · −1.2 pts
- Northumberland County4.0% · −1.4 pts
- Perry County3.6% · −1.2 pts
- Philadelphia County/city5.2% · −1.2 pts
- Pike County4.4% · −1.1 pts
- Potter County4.7% · −1.4 pts
- Schuylkill County5.0% · −0.9 pts
- Snyder County3.6% · −1.3 pts
- Somerset County4.2% · −0.9 pts
- Sullivan County3.3% · −1.3 pts
- Susquehanna County3.9% · −0.9 pts
- Tioga County4.2% · −0.9 pts
- Union County3.5% · −1.8 pts
- Venango County4.3% · −1.0 pts
- Warren County4.0% · −1.3 pts
- Washington County3.8% · −1.1 pts
- Wayne County3.8% · −0.8 pts
- Westmoreland County3.9% · −1.1 pts
- Wyoming County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- York County3.9% · −1.1 pts