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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 Nov.
2024		 Sept.
2025		 Oct.
2025		 Nov.
2025		 Change from:
Oct.
2025-
Nov.
2025

Employment status

Civilian noninstitutional population

 269,463 274,226 - 274,633 -

Civilian labor force

 168,304 171,248 - 171,571 -

Participation rate

 62.5 62.4 - 62.5 -

Employed

 161,183 163,645 - 163,741 -

Employment-population ratio

 59.8 59.7 - 59.6 -

Unemployed

 7,121 7,603 - 7,831 -

Unemployment rate

 4.2 4.4 - 4.6 -

Not in labor force

 101,159 102,978 - 103,061 -

Unemployment rates

Total, 16 years and over

 4.2 4.4 - 4.6 -

Adult men (20 years and over)

 3.9 4.0 - 4.1 -

Adult women (20 years and over)

 3.9 4.2 - 4.1 -

Teenagers (16 to 19 years)

 13.1 13.2 - 16.3 -

White

 3.8 3.8 - 3.9 -

Black or African American

 6.4 7.5 - 8.3 -

Asian

 3.8 4.4 - 3.6 -

Hispanic or Latino ethnicity

 5.3 5.5 - 5.0 -

Total, 25 years and over

 3.5 3.5 - 3.7 -

Less than a high school diploma

 6.0 6.8 - 6.8 -

High school graduates, no college

 4.6 4.2 - 4.4 -

Some college or associate degree

 3.6 3.4 - 3.5 -

Bachelor's degree and higher

 2.5 2.8 - 2.9 -

Reason for unemployment

Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs

 3,394 3,525 - 3,559 -

Job leavers

 854 861 - 862 -

Reentrants

 2,182 2,325 - 2,618 -

New entrants

 690 813 - 765 -

Duration of unemployment

Less than 5 weeks

 2,208 2,227 - 2,543 -

5 to 14 weeks

 2,063 2,367 - 2,202 -

15 to 26 weeks

 1,236 1,290 - 1,189 -

27 weeks and over

 1,654 1,814 - 1,910 -

Employed people at work part time

Part time for economic reasons

 4,469 4,579 - 5,488 -

Slack work or business conditions

 3,125 3,123 - 3,444 -

Could only find part-time work

 1,084 1,170 - 1,759 -

Part time for noneconomic reasons

 22,380 22,756 - 23,126 -

People not in the labor force

Marginally attached to the labor force

 1,572 1,742 - 1,825 -

Discouraged workers

 401 557 - 651 -

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: December 16, 2025