BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Tennessee Unemployment Rate by County
Tennessee statewide was 3.7% in August 2026, against 3.5% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 95 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.
95 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Anderson County3.5% · +0.2 pts
- Bedford County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Benton County4.7% · +0.1 pts
- Bledsoe County3.1% · −0.2 pts
- Blount County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Bradley County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Campbell County3.8% · +0.4 pts
- Cannon County3.1% · +0.2 pts
- Carroll County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- Carter County3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Cheatham County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Chester County4.5% · +0.2 pts
- Claiborne County3.9% · −0.2 pts
- Clay County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Cocke County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Coffee County3.7% · 0.0 pts
- Crockett County3.3% · −0.2 pts
- Cumberland County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Davidson County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Decatur County4.7% · +0.3 pts
- DeKalb County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Dickson County3.0% · +0.1 pts
- Dyer County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Fayette County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Fentress County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Franklin County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Gibson County4.0% · +0.2 pts
- Giles County4.4% · +0.2 pts
- Grainger County3.6% · +0.2 pts
- Greene County4.9% · +0.2 pts
- Grundy County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Hamblen County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Hamilton County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Hancock County5.5% · +1.0 pts
- Hardeman County5.1% · −0.1 pts
- Hardin County4.4% · +0.5 pts
- Hawkins County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Haywood County3.5% · −0.3 pts
- Henderson County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Henry County4.4% · +0.4 pts
- Hickman County3.6% · +0.4 pts
- Houston County3.7% · −0.3 pts
- Humphreys County3.8% · +0.1 pts
- Jackson County4.0% · +0.2 pts
- Jefferson County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Johnson County4.5% · −0.4 pts
- Knox County3.2% · +0.1 pts
- Lake County4.8% · −0.3 pts
- Lauderdale County4.8% · −0.1 pts
- Lawrence County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Lewis County4.5% · +0.9 pts
- Lincoln County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Loudon County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Macon County3.0% · 0.0 pts
- Madison County4.3% · +0.3 pts
- Marion County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Marshall County4.1% · +0.7 pts
- Maury County4.1% · +1.0 pts
- McMinn County4.6% · +0.3 pts
- McNairy County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Meigs County5.0% · −0.1 pts
- Monroe County3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Montgomery County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Moore County4.0% · +0.6 pts
- Morgan County4.2% · +0.2 pts
- Obion County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Overton County3.6% · +0.3 pts
- Perry County5.5% · +0.3 pts
- Pickett County5.2% · +0.8 pts
- Polk County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Putnam County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Rhea County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Roane County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Robertson County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Rutherford County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Scott County4.4% · +0.3 pts
- Sequatchie County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Sevier County2.9% · +0.1 pts
- Shelby County5.0% · +0.3 pts
- Smith County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Stewart County4.3% · +0.5 pts
- Sullivan County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Sumner County3.1% · +0.1 pts
- Tipton County3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Trousdale County3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Unicoi County3.6% · −0.6 pts
- Union County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Van Buren County3.4% · +0.1 pts
- Warren County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Washington County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Wayne County4.0% · +0.4 pts
- Weakley County4.7% · +0.6 pts
- White County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Williamson County3.0% · +0.1 pts
- Wilson County3.0% · 0.0 pts