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Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category Dec.
2024		 Oct.
2025		 Nov.
2025		 Dec.
2025		 Change from:
Nov.
2025-
Dec.
2025

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 269,638 - 274,633 274,816 183

Civilian labor force

 168,506 - 171,541 171,495 -46

Participation rate

 62.5 - 62.5 62.4 -0.1

Employed

 161,586 - 163,760 163,992 232

Employment-population ratio

 59.9 - 59.6 59.7 0.1

Unemployed

 6,920 - 7,781 7,503 -278

Unemployment rate

 4.1 - 4.5 4.4 -0.1

Not in labor force

 101,132 - 103,092 103,321 229

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 4.1 - 4.5 4.4 -0.1

Adult men (20 years and over)

 3.8 - 4.1 3.9 -0.2

Adult women (20 years and over)

 3.8 - 4.1 3.9 -0.2

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 12.3 - 16.3 15.7 -0.6

White

 3.6 - 3.9 3.8 -0.1

Black or African American

 6.1 - 8.2 7.5 -0.7

Asian

 3.5 - 3.6 3.6 0.0

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 5.1 - 5.0 4.9 -0.1

Total, 25 years and over

 3.4 - 3.7 3.5 -0.2

Less than a high school diploma

 5.7 - 6.8 5.6 -1.2

High school graduates, no college

 4.4 - 4.4 4.0 -0.4

Some college or associate degree

 3.4 - 3.5 3.8 0.3

Bachelor's degree and higher

 2.5 - 2.9 2.8 -0.1

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

 3,261 - 3,560 3,473 -87

Job leavers

 945 - 861 832 -29

Reentrants

 2,050 - 2,600 2,337 -263

New entrants

 649 - 774 840 66

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,175 - 2,540 2,289 -251

5 to 14 weeks

 2,014 - 2,190 2,069 -121

15 to 26 weeks

 1,202 - 1,190 1,195 5

27 weeks and over

 1,551 - 1,910 1,948 38

Employed people at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 4,361 - 5,487 5,341 -146

Slack work or business conditions

 2,866 - 3,445 3,436 -9

Could only find part-time work

 1,187 - 1,650 1,514 -136

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 22,622 - 23,068 22,251 -817

People not in the labor force

Marginally attached to the labor force

 1,572 - 1,821 1,758 -63

Discouraged workers

 493 - 644 461 -183

NOTE: People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Detail for the seasonally adjusted data shown in this table will not necessarily add to totals because of the independent seasonal adjustment of the various series. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown.
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Last Modified Date: January 09, 2026