BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
South Carolina Unemployment Rate by County
South Carolina statewide was 4.3% in August 2026, against 4.8% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 46 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.
46 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Abbeville County5.1% · −0.1 pts
- Aiken County4.2% · −0.6 pts
- Allendale County6.5% · −0.3 pts
- Anderson County4.2% · −0.3 pts
- Bamberg County5.3% · −1.2 pts
- Barnwell County5.6% · −0.6 pts
- Beaufort County4.0% · −0.6 pts
- Berkeley County3.9% · −0.5 pts
- Calhoun County4.4% · −0.8 pts
- Charleston County3.5% · −0.5 pts
- Cherokee County5.4% · −0.8 pts
- Chester County5.3% · −0.9 pts
- Chesterfield County5.1% · −0.5 pts
- Clarendon County5.5% · −1.3 pts
- Colleton County4.8% · −1.0 pts
- Darlington County5.0% · −0.6 pts
- Dillon County5.5% · −0.8 pts
- Dorchester County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Edgefield County3.8% · −0.5 pts
- Fairfield County5.2% · −0.6 pts
- Florence County4.7% · −0.5 pts
- Georgetown County5.0% · −0.8 pts
- Greenville County3.7% · −0.6 pts
- Greenwood County5.0% · −0.7 pts
- Hampton County4.5% · −0.4 pts
- Horry County4.8% · −0.6 pts
- Jasper County4.3% · −0.7 pts
- Kershaw County4.4% · −0.5 pts
- Lancaster County4.5% · −0.8 pts
- Laurens County4.2% · −0.9 pts
- Lee County6.3% · +0.3 pts
- Lexington County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Marion County6.5% · −0.1 pts
- Marlboro County7.0% · −1.1 pts
- McCormick County5.5% · −0.3 pts
- Newberry County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Oconee County4.2% · −0.4 pts
- Orangeburg County5.7% · −1.1 pts
- Pickens County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Richland County4.5% · −0.4 pts
- Saluda County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Spartanburg County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- Sumter County5.4% · −0.4 pts
- Union County6.3% · 0.0 pts
- Williamsburg County7.1% · −1.4 pts
- York County4.2% · −0.7 pts