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Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

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HOUSEHOLD DATA
ANNUAL AVERAGES
28. Unemployed people by reason for unemployment, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity[Numbers in thousands]
Reason	White		Black or African American		Asian		Hispanic or Latino ethnicity
Reason	2024	2025	2024	2025	2024	2025	2024	2025
NUMBER OF UNEMPLOYED
Total unemployed	4,599	4,840	1,318	1,545	410	458	1,663	1,766
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	2,267	2,341	619	722	183	183	838	861
On temporary layoff	678	725	105	110	30	25	257	264
Not on temporary layoff	1,589	1,616	514	612	153	158	581	597
Permanent job losers	1,154	1,213	350	440	121	129	373	408
People who completed temporary jobs	435	403	164	172	32	30	208	189
Job leavers	570	562	145	160	48	51	155	153
Reentrants	1,337	1,441	440	510	120	157	441	514
New entrants	426	495	115	153	59	67	229	239

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	49.3	48.4	47.0	46.7	44.7	40.0	50.4	48.7
On temporary layoff	14.7	15.0	8.0	7.1	7.4	5.4	15.5	14.9
Not on temporary layoff	34.5	33.4	39.0	39.6	37.2	34.6	34.9	33.8
Job leavers	12.4	11.6	11.0	10.4	11.7	11.2	9.3	8.7
Reentrants	29.1	29.8	33.4	33.0	29.2	34.2	26.5	29.1
New entrants	9.3	10.2	8.7	9.9	14.4	14.6	13.8	13.5

UNEMPLOYED AS A PERCENT OF THE CIVILIAN LABOR FORCE
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	1.8	1.8	2.8	3.2	1.6	1.4	2.5	2.5
Job leavers	0.4	0.4	0.7	0.7	0.4	0.4	0.5	0.4
Reentrants	1.0	1.1	2.0	2.3	1.0	1.2	1.3	1.5
New entrants	0.3	0.4	0.5	0.7	0.5	0.5	0.7	0.7
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum tototals because data are not presented for all races. People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic orLatino may be of any race. 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