BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Washington Unemployment Rate by County
Washington statewide was 4.7% in August 2026, against 4.7% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 39 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.
39 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Adams County4.0% · −0.1 pts
- Asotin County2.9% · −0.4 pts
- Benton County4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Chelan County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Clallam County4.4% · −0.2 pts
- Clark County4.8% · 0.0 pts
- Columbia County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Cowlitz County5.2% · −0.2 pts
- Douglas County4.7% · 0.0 pts
- Ferry County6.8% · +0.1 pts
- Franklin County4.7% · −0.2 pts
- Garfield County3.4% · −0.7 pts
- Grant County5.3% · −0.2 pts
- Grays Harbor County5.4% · −0.2 pts
- Island County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Jefferson County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- King County4.7% · 0.0 pts
- Kitsap County4.3% · +0.1 pts
- Kittitas County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Klickitat County4.5% · −0.4 pts
- Lewis County5.6% · +0.2 pts
- Lincoln County4.9% · −0.3 pts
- Mason County5.2% · −0.2 pts
- Okanogan County4.5% · +0.2 pts
- Pacific County6.1% · +0.3 pts
- Pend Oreille County4.9% · −0.4 pts
- Pierce County5.1% · 0.0 pts
- San Juan County3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Skagit County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Skamania County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Snohomish County4.8% · 0.0 pts
- Spokane County4.1% · −0.2 pts
- Stevens County4.9% · −0.4 pts
- Thurston County4.3% · −0.3 pts
- Wahkiakum County6.5% · −0.4 pts
- Walla Walla County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Whatcom County4.5% · 0.0 pts
- Whitman County4.2% · +0.4 pts
- Yakima County5.5% · 0.0 pts