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Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
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Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, sex, and age
(See other file formats and annual average tables or tables for other years.)
| Reason | Total, 16 years and over | Men, 20 years and over | Women, 20 years and over | Both sexes, 16 to 19 years | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | |
| NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED | ||||||||
| Total unemployed | 6,761 | 7,314 | 3,206 | 3,463 | 2,731 | 2,947 | 823 | 905 |
| Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs | 3,253 | 3,443 | 1,835 | 1,965 | 1,291 | 1,366 | 126 | 112 |
| On temporary layoff | 859 | 910 | 481 | 504 | 326 | 352 | 52 | 54 |
| Not on temporary layoff | 2,393 | 2,534 | 1,354 | 1,461 | 965 | 1,014 | 74 | 58 |
| Permanent job losers | 1,716 | 1,887 | 963 | 1,088 | 713 | 765 | 41 | 35 |
| People who completed temporary jobs | 677 | 647 | 392 | 374 | 253 | 249 | 33 | 24 |
| Job leavers | 810 | 835 | 380 | 388 | 378 | 402 | 52 | 45 |
| Reentrants | 2,052 | 2,267 | 828 | 933 | 923 | 1,012 | 302 | 322 |
| New entrants | 647 | 770 | 164 | 177 | 139 | 168 | 344 | 425 |
| PERCENT DISTRIBUTION | ||||||||
| Total unemployed | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
| Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs | 48.1 | 47.1 | 57.2 | 56.8 | 47.3 | 46.3 | 15.3 | 12.4 |
| On temporary layoff | 12.7 | 12.4 | 15.0 | 14.5 | 11.9 | 11.9 | 6.4 | 6.0 |
| Not on temporary layoff | 35.4 | 34.6 | 42.2 | 42.2 | 35.3 | 34.4 | 8.9 | 6.4 |
| Job leavers | 12.0 | 11.4 | 11.8 | 11.2 | 13.8 | 13.6 | 6.3 | 5.0 |
| Reentrants | 30.4 | 31.0 | 25.8 | 26.9 | 33.8 | 34.3 | 36.7 | 35.6 |
| New entrants | 9.6 | 10.5 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.1 | 5.7 | 41.8 | 47.0 |
| UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE | ||||||||
| Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs | 1.9 | 2.0 | 2.1 | 2.3 | 1.7 | 1.8 | 1.9 | 1.7 |
| Job leavers | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.8 | 0.7 |
| Reentrants | 1.2 | 1.3 | 1.0 | 1.1 | 1.2 | 1.3 | 4.7 | 5.0 |
| New entrants | 0.4 | 0.5 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 5.3 | 6.6 |
| NOTE: Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. (Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown.) As a result, 2025 annual estimates are not strictly comparable with annual averages for other years. | ||||||||
Last Modified Date: February 20, 2026