BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Texas Unemployment Rate by County
Texas statewide was 4.6% in August 2026, against 4.6% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 254 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.
254 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Anderson County4.7% · +0.1 pts
- Andrews County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Angelina County5.0% · +0.1 pts
- Aransas County5.3% · −0.1 pts
- Archer County3.8% · −0.2 pts
- Armstrong County3.4% · +0.1 pts
- Atascosa County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Austin County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Bailey County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Bandera County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Bastrop County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Baylor County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Bee County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- Bell County5.2% · +0.2 pts
- Bexar County4.6% · +0.2 pts
- Blanco County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Borden County5.0% · +1.5 pts
- Bosque County4.6% · +0.2 pts
- Bowie County4.7% · +0.1 pts
- Brazoria County5.1% · 0.0 pts
- Brazos County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Brewster County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Briscoe County3.8% · +0.2 pts
- Brooks County4.8% · +0.3 pts
- Brown County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Burleson County4.0% · 0.0 pts
- Burnet County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Caldwell County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Calhoun County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- Callahan County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Cameron County6.5% · −1.0 pts
- Camp County5.4% · +0.1 pts
- Carson County3.4% · +0.2 pts
- Cass County5.5% · +0.2 pts
- Castro County3.3% · +0.2 pts
- Chambers County5.4% · +0.1 pts
- Cherokee County4.7% · 0.0 pts
- Childress County2.7% · −0.1 pts
- Clay County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Cochran County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Coke County3.1% · −0.7 pts
- Coleman County4.6% · +0.7 pts
- Collin County4.4% · +0.2 pts
- Collingsworth County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Colorado County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Comal County4.3% · +0.3 pts
- Comanche County3.7% · +0.2 pts
- Concho County3.9% · +0.3 pts
- Cooke County3.6% · −1.4 pts
- Coryell County5.4% · +0.2 pts
- Cottle County2.2% · −0.3 pts
- Crane County3.0% · +0.1 pts
- Crockett County3.1% · −0.4 pts
- Crosby County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Culberson County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Dallam County3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Dallas County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Dawson County4.7% · +0.1 pts
- Deaf Smith County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Delta County4.9% · +0.5 pts
- Denton County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- DeWitt County5.3% · 0.0 pts
- Dickens County3.3% · −0.9 pts
- Dimmit County7.2% · −0.1 pts
- Donley County5.0% · +0.4 pts
- Duval County5.2% · +0.4 pts
- Eastland County6.2% · 0.0 pts
- Ector County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Edwards County3.8% · +0.8 pts
- El Paso County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Ellis County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Erath County3.9% · −0.4 pts
- Falls County4.4% · 0.0 pts
- Fannin County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Fayette County4.4% · +0.3 pts
- Fisher County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- Floyd County3.9% · −0.6 pts
- Foard County3.8% · +0.5 pts
- Fort Bend County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Franklin County4.3% · +0.2 pts
- Freestone County5.2% · +0.1 pts
- Frio County5.7% · −0.5 pts
- Gaines County3.3% · −0.3 pts
- Galveston County4.9% · 0.0 pts
- Garza County5.4% · +0.1 pts
- Gillespie County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Glasscock County2.6% · −0.6 pts
- Goliad County5.5% · +0.2 pts
- Gonzales County4.2% · +0.3 pts
- Gray County4.0% · −0.3 pts
- Grayson County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Gregg County5.1% · +0.2 pts
- Grimes County5.0% · 0.0 pts
- Guadalupe County4.4% · +0.2 pts
- Hale County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Hall County4.6% · +0.1 pts
- Hamilton County4.8% · 0.0 pts
- Hansford County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Hardeman County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Hardin County4.8% · −0.1 pts
- Harris County5.0% · 0.0 pts
- Harrison County5.0% · −0.1 pts
- Hartley County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Haskell County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Hays County3.9% · +0.1 pts
- Hemphill County5.0% · −0.1 pts
- Henderson County4.9% · 0.0 pts
- Hidalgo County6.3% · −0.5 pts
- Hill County4.3% · 0.0 pts
- Hockley County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- Hood County4.7% · 0.0 pts
- Hopkins County3.8% · +0.1 pts
- Houston County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Howard County4.5% · +0.2 pts
- Hudspeth County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Hunt County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Hutchinson County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Irion County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Jack County5.5% · −0.6 pts
- Jackson County4.8% · 0.0 pts
- Jasper County6.5% · 0.0 pts
- Jeff Davis County5.4% · +0.2 pts
- Jefferson County6.3% · +0.1 pts
- Jim Hogg County4.5% · −1.2 pts
- Jim Wells County5.7% · +0.3 pts
- Johnson County4.1% · +0.1 pts
- Jones County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Karnes County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Kaufman County4.7% · +0.2 pts
- Kendall County3.8% · −0.2 pts
- Kenedy County8.1% · −0.1 pts
- Kent County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Kerr County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Kimble County4.6% · +0.4 pts
- King County3.8% · +1.2 pts
- Kinney County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Kleberg County5.0% · 0.0 pts
- Knox County3.5% · −0.5 pts
- La Salle County4.2% · −0.6 pts
- Lamar County5.1% · +0.6 pts
- Lamb County3.7% · −0.2 pts
- Lampasas County4.8% · +0.3 pts
- Lavaca County3.7% · 0.0 pts
- Lee County4.0% · +0.2 pts
- Leon County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Liberty County6.0% · 0.0 pts
- Limestone County4.7% · −0.1 pts
- Lipscomb County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Live Oak County5.9% · +0.4 pts
- Llano County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Loving County0.7% · +0.3 pts
- Lubbock County3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Lynn County3.7% · 0.0 pts
- Madison County5.2% · +0.3 pts
- Marion County6.4% · +0.1 pts
- Martin County3.2% · −0.7 pts
- Mason County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Matagorda County6.0% · −0.3 pts
- Maverick County7.1% · −1.5 pts
- McCulloch County5.5% · +0.5 pts
- McLennan County4.3% · −0.1 pts
- McMullen County6.3% · +0.7 pts
- Medina County4.6% · +0.1 pts
- Menard County5.0% · +0.3 pts
- Midland County3.3% · −0.2 pts
- Milam County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Mills County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Mitchell County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Montague County4.6% · −0.3 pts
- Montgomery County4.6% · +0.1 pts
- Moore County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Morris County6.2% · +0.3 pts
- Motley County5.1% · −0.2 pts
- Nacogdoches County5.2% · +0.1 pts
- Navarro County5.4% · +0.3 pts
- Newton County6.8% · 0.0 pts
- Nolan County4.4% · +0.3 pts
- Nueces County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Ochiltree County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Oldham County3.9% · +0.6 pts
- Orange County5.3% · +0.2 pts
- Palo Pinto County4.6% · +0.2 pts
- Panola County5.2% · −0.2 pts
- Parker County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Parmer County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Pecos County4.9% · +0.2 pts
- Polk County5.0% · −0.3 pts
- Potter County4.4% · +0.6 pts
- Presidio County6.3% · −1.1 pts
- Rains County4.9% · +0.6 pts
- Randall County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Reagan County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Real County5.1% · 0.0 pts
- Red River County5.6% · +0.6 pts
- Reeves County3.8% · −0.3 pts
- Refugio County5.2% · −0.4 pts
- Roberts County4.7% · −0.1 pts
- Robertson County4.5% · −0.3 pts
- Rockwall County4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Runnels County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Rusk County4.8% · −0.1 pts
- Sabine County7.0% · +0.1 pts
- San Augustine County5.3% · −1.0 pts
- San Jacinto County5.6% · −0.1 pts
- San Patricio County5.3% · −0.3 pts
- San Saba County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Schleicher County4.7% · −0.3 pts
- Scurry County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Shackelford County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Shelby County5.5% · 0.0 pts
- Sherman County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Smith County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Somervell County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Starr County9.4% · −0.3 pts
- Stephens County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Sterling County3.2% · −0.9 pts
- Stonewall County2.3% · +0.2 pts
- Sutton County6.3% · −0.2 pts
- Swisher County4.5% · −0.2 pts
- Tarrant County4.4% · +0.1 pts
- Taylor County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Terrell County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Terry County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Throckmorton County4.7% · −0.4 pts
- Titus County4.6% · −0.1 pts
- Tom Green County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Travis County3.9% · +0.2 pts
- Trinity County5.9% · +0.1 pts
- Tyler County6.2% · −0.2 pts
- Upshur County4.9% · +0.2 pts
- Upton County2.0% · +0.3 pts
- Uvalde County4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Val Verde County5.2% · 0.0 pts
- Van Zandt County4.5% · +0.1 pts
- Victoria County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Walker County4.8% · −0.1 pts
- Waller County5.6% · −0.1 pts
- Ward County4.0% · +0.3 pts
- Washington County4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Webb County4.4% · −0.4 pts
- Wharton County5.2% · +0.5 pts
- Wheeler County3.9% · +0.3 pts
- Wichita County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Wilbarger County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Willacy County6.7% · +1.1 pts
- Williamson County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Wilson County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Winkler County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Wise County4.1% · −0.1 pts
- Wood County5.2% · +0.1 pts
- Yoakum County4.0% · −0.7 pts
- Young County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Zapata County6.6% · −0.1 pts
- Zavala County6.2% · −0.6 pts