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

Measure: Unemployment rate, Black workers (%). All 45 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.

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2026-11-09
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National value: 8.1 (United States).

Washington: 7Idaho: not in this tableMontana: not in this tableNorth Dakota: not in this tableMinnesota: 9.3Michigan: 10.2Ohio: 8.3Pennsylvania: 8.1New York: 9.5Vermont: not in this tableNew Hampshire: 2.1Maine: 3.3Arizona: 7.1California: 10.6New Mexico: 10.8Texas: 8.4Louisiana: 7.4Mississippi: 7.6Alabama: 8.3Florida: 7.2Georgia: 7.1South Carolina: 6.3North Carolina: 7.2Virginia: 6.1District of Columbia: 16.4Maryland: 6.6Delaware: 6.4New Jersey: 8.6Connecticut: 9.8Rhode Island: 6Massachusetts: 7.5Oregon: 7Utah: 6Wyoming: not in this tableNevada: 12.2Colorado: 7.1South Dakota: 8.8Nebraska: 9.1Kansas: 5.3Oklahoma: 5.7Iowa: 11.2Missouri: 6.8Wisconsin: 7.9Illinois: 13.4Kentucky: 9Arkansas: 7.1Tennessee: 6West Virginia: 3.9Indiana: 7.3Alaska: 10.7Hawaii: 5.9

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 2.1 to 6.1 %
  • Group 2: 6.1 to 7.1 %
  • Group 3: 7.1 to 8.1 %
  • Group 4: 8.1 to 9.5 %
  • Highest: 9.5 to 16.4 %
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.

1District of Columbia16.4
2Illinois13.4
3Nevada12.2
4Iowa11.2
5New Mexico10.8
6Alaska10.7
7California10.6
8Michigan10.2
9Connecticut9.8
10New York9.5
11Minnesota9.3
12Nebraska9.1
13Kentucky9
14South Dakota8.8
15New Jersey8.6
16Texas8.4
17Alabama8.3
17Ohio8.3
19Pennsylvania8.1
20Wisconsin7.9
21Mississippi7.6
22Massachusetts7.5
23Louisiana7.4
24Indiana7.3
25Florida7.2
25North Carolina7.2
27Arizona7.1
27Arkansas7.1
27Colorado7.1
27Georgia7.1
31Oregon7
31Washington7
33Missouri6.8
34Maryland6.6
35Delaware6.4
36South Carolina6.3
37Virginia6.1
38Rhode Island6
38Tennessee6
38Utah6
41Hawaii5.9
42Oklahoma5.7
43Kansas5.3
44West Virginia3.9
45Maine3.3
46New Hampshire2.1

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, Black 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-black-workers/

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