BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
West Virginia Unemployment Rate by County
West Virginia statewide was 4.1% in August 2026, against 4.5% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 55 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.
55 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Barbour County4.5% · −0.8 pts
- Berkeley County3.5% · −0.6 pts
- Boone County4.8% · −0.9 pts
- Braxton County3.3% · −1.0 pts
- Brooke County4.6% · −0.7 pts
- Cabell County3.8% · −0.4 pts
- Calhoun County4.9% · −1.0 pts
- Clay County6.0% · −0.8 pts
- Doddridge County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Fayette County4.3% · −0.4 pts
- Gilmer County3.7% · −0.5 pts
- Grant County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Greenbrier County4.0% · −0.6 pts
- Hampshire County3.7% · −0.3 pts
- Hancock County4.7% · −0.8 pts
- Hardy County3.2% · −0.5 pts
- Harrison County3.5% · −0.4 pts
- Jackson County4.8% · −0.8 pts
- Jefferson County3.1% · −0.4 pts
- Kanawha County4.0% · −0.4 pts
- Lewis County4.6% · −0.5 pts
- Lincoln County4.7% · −0.7 pts
- Logan County5.9% · +0.3 pts
- Marion County4.1% · −0.5 pts
- Marshall County4.5% · 0.0 pts
- Mason County3.5% · −0.4 pts
- McDowell County10.6% · −1.0 pts
- Mercer County4.3% · −0.5 pts
- Mineral County4.0% · −0.7 pts
- Mingo County7.6% · −0.2 pts
- Monongalia County3.2% · −0.5 pts
- Monroe County4.2% · −1.9 pts
- Morgan County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Nicholas County4.6% · −1.0 pts
- Ohio County4.2% · −0.2 pts
- Pendleton County2.8% · −0.4 pts
- Pleasants County3.9% · −0.6 pts
- Pocahontas County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Preston County3.9% · −0.6 pts
- Putnam County3.4% · −0.4 pts
- Raleigh County4.2% · −0.4 pts
- Randolph County4.9% · −0.5 pts
- Ritchie County4.6% · −0.5 pts
- Roane County5.5% · −0.8 pts
- Summers County4.5% · −0.7 pts
- Taylor County3.9% · −0.7 pts
- Tucker County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Tyler County5.2% · −0.2 pts
- Upshur County4.3% · −0.6 pts
- Wayne County4.4% · −0.5 pts
- Webster County5.0% · −1.1 pts
- Wetzel County6.0% · +0.3 pts
- Wirt County5.3% · −0.2 pts
- Wood County4.1% · −0.4 pts
- Wyoming County6.4% · −0.1 pts