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Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey
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| Duration of unemployment | Total | Full-time workers | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unemployed | Percent distribution | Unemployed | Percent distribution | |||||
| 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | 2024 | 2025 | |
|
Total unemployed |
6,761 | 7,314 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 5,496 | 5,968 | 100.0 | 100.0 |
|
Less than 5 weeks |
2,235 | 2,357 | 33.1 | 32.2 | 1,644 | 1,725 | 29.9 | 28.9 |
|
5 to 14 weeks |
2,012 | 2,150 | 29.8 | 29.4 | 1,650 | 1,754 | 30.0 | 29.4 |
|
5 to 10 weeks |
1,366 | 1,449 | 20.2 | 19.8 | 1,099 | 1,174 | 20.0 | 19.7 |
|
11 to 14 weeks |
646 | 701 | 9.6 | 9.6 | 552 | 581 | 10.0 | 9.7 |
|
15 weeks and over |
2,513 | 2,808 | 37.2 | 38.4 | 2,201 | 2,489 | 40.0 | 41.7 |
|
15 to 26 weeks |
1,064 | 1,113 | 15.7 | 15.2 | 930 | 973 | 16.9 | 16.3 |
|
27 weeks and over |
1,449 | 1,696 | 21.4 | 23.2 | 1,271 | 1,516 | 23.1 | 25.4 |
|
27 to 51 weeks |
624 | 688 | 9.2 | 9.4 | 548 | 618 | 10.0 | 10.3 |
|
52 weeks and over |
825 | 1,008 | 12.2 | 13.8 | 723 | 898 | 13.2 | 15.0 |
|
Average (mean) duration, in weeks |
21.6 | 23.0 | - | - | 23.0 | 24.7 | - | - |
|
Median duration, in weeks |
9.6 | 9.9 | - | - | 10.5 | 11.1 | - | - |
|
NOTE: Full-time workers are unemployed people looking for full-time work (35 hours or more per week) or on layoff from full-time jobs. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 35,000). 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. |
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Last Modified Date: February 20, 2026