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Unemployment Rate in Iowa, by County

Unemployment Rate for every county in Iowa, ranked. The highest is Jefferson County at 8.0% and the lowest is Fremont County at 0.8%.

Iowa: 3.6% · United States: 5.2% · median county in Iowa: 3.2%

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#County Unemployment Rate
1Jefferson County8.0%
2Jasper County5.7%
3Buena Vista County5.5%
4Pocahontas County5.4%
5Lucas County5.2%
6Jackson County5.1%
7Humboldt County5.0%
8Page County5.0%
9Hamilton County4.8%
10Story County4.8%
11Webster County4.8%
12Black Hawk County4.6%
13Keokuk County4.5%
14Lee County4.5%
15Polk County4.4%
16Sac County4.4%
17Hardin County4.3%
18Marshall County4.3%
19Wapello County4.3%
20Clarke County4.2%
21Van Buren County4.1%
22Woodbury County4.1%
23Adair County4.0%
24Union County4.0%
25Adams County3.9%
26Appanoose County3.9%
27Crawford County3.8%
28Franklin County3.8%
29Johnson County3.8%
30Pottawattamie County3.8%
31Tama County3.8%
32Dubuque County3.7%
33Scott County3.7%
34Jones County3.6%
35Poweshiek County3.6%
36Clay County3.5%
37Linn County3.5%
38Madison County3.5%
39Mahaska County3.5%
40Worth County3.5%
41Clinton County3.4%
42Osceola County3.4%
43Warren County3.4%
44Bremer County3.3%
45Floyd County3.3%
46Ringgold County3.3%
47Fayette County3.2%
48Guthrie County3.2%
49Muscatine County3.2%
50Shelby County3.2%
51Butler County3.1%
52Des Moines County3.1%
53Monroe County3.1%
54Dickinson County3.0%
55Louisa County3.0%
56Winnebago County3.0%
57Taylor County2.9%
58Wayne County2.9%
59Buchanan County2.8%
60Davis County2.7%
61Calhoun County2.6%
62Cerro Gordo County2.6%
63Montgomery County2.6%
64Allamakee County2.5%
65Cherokee County2.5%
66Clayton County2.5%
67Ida County2.4%
68Cedar County2.3%
69Dallas County2.3%
70Greene County2.3%
71Harrison County2.3%
72Lyon County2.3%
73Winneshiek County2.3%
74Marion County2.2%
75Palo Alto County2.2%
76Plymouth County2.2%
77Washington County2.2%
78Benton County2.0%
79Delaware County2.0%
80Grundy County2.0%
81Mills County2.0%
82Decatur County1.9%
83Hancock County1.9%
84Howard County1.9%
85Iowa County1.9%
86Kossuth County1.9%
87Carroll County1.8%
88Wright County1.8%
89Emmet County1.7%
90Chickasaw County1.6%
91Monona County1.6%
92Boone County1.5%
93Henry County1.5%
94Sioux County1.5%
95Cass County1.4%
96Audubon County1.3%
97Mitchell County1.2%
98O'Brien County1.0%
99Fremont County0.8%

Small populations produce wide margins: Jefferson County is 8.0% with a margin of error of ±3.8%; Fremont County is 0.8% with a margin of error of ±0.5%. An estimate with a margin that wide should be read as a range rather than a rank.

Share of the civilian labour force who are out of work and looking. People not looking for work are excluded from the denominator.

Source: ACS 2020-2024 5-Year Estimates, 2024.

Iowa ranks 44th of 52 states for unemployment rate.

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