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Unemployment rate, Asian workers: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Unemployment rate, Asian workers (%). All 44 states and District of Columbia with data in Unemployment rate by race and Hispanic origin by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 4.3 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 4.5 %
RI 3.8 %
DE 1.8 %
CT 4.3 %
NJ 3.9 %
MD 3.1 %
MA 5.2 %
NH 3.5 %

Lowest: 0.4 to 3.2 %
Group 2: 3.2 to 3.9 %
Group 3: 3.9 to 4.2 %
Group 4: 4.2 to 4.6 %
Highest: 4.6 to 5.2 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.

Note: Rates for smaller groups rest on small ACS samples and have wide margins of error; groups the Census Bureau does not publish for a state are left out.


1	Massachusetts	5.2
2	Utah	5.1
3	Nebraska	4.9
4	California	4.8
4	Kansas	4.8
4	Mississippi	4.8
7	Washington	4.7
8	Alaska	4.6
8	New York	4.6
10	District of Columbia	4.5
11	Texas	4.4
12	Connecticut	4.3
12	Oklahoma	4.3
12	Oregon	4.3
12	Virginia	4.3
16	Georgia	4.2
16	Michigan	4.2
16	Missouri	4.2
16	Pennsylvania	4.2
16	South Carolina	4.2
21	Iowa	4.1
21	Kentucky	4.1
23	Minnesota	4
24	Illinois	3.9
24	New Jersey	3.9
24	Ohio	3.9
24	Wisconsin	3.9
28	Rhode Island	3.8
29	North Carolina	3.7
30	Alabama	3.6
30	Nevada	3.6
32	Florida	3.5
32	New Hampshire	3.5
34	Colorado	3.3
34	Indiana	3.3
36	Arizona	3.2
37	Maryland	3.1
38	Idaho	2.6
39	Hawaii	2.1
40	Delaware	1.8
40	Tennessee	1.8
42	Louisiana	1.7
42	Maine	1.7
44	Arkansas	1.6
45	New Mexico	0.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2301: Employment Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by unemployment rate, Asian workers (%) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2301; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-unemployment-rate-asian-workers/

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