Employment Situation Summary Table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted

HOUSEHOLD DATA
Summary table A. Household data, seasonally adjusted [Numbers in thousands]
Category	Aug. 2025	June 2026	July 2026	Aug. 2026	Change from: July 2026- Aug. 2026
Employment status
Civilian noninstitutional population(1)	274,001	275,166	275,282	275,415	133
Civilian labor force	170,750	169,358	169,094	169,777	683
Participation rate	62.3	61.5	61.4	61.6	0.2
Employed	163,370	162,264	162,177	162,746	569
Employment-population ratio	59.6	59.0	58.9	59.1	0.2
Unemployed	7,380	7,094	6,916	7,031	115
Unemployment rate	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.1	0.0
Not in labor force	103,251	105,808	106,189	105,638	-551

Unemployment rates
Total, 16 years and over	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.1	0.0
Adult men (20 years and over)	4.1	3.9	3.9	4.0	0.1
Adult women (20 years and over)	3.9	3.7	3.7	3.5	-0.2
Teenagers (16 to 19 years)	13.9	14.6	12.1	14.1	2.0
White	3.7	3.6	3.6	3.7	0.1
Black or African American	7.6	6.6	6.3	6.0	-0.3
Asian	3.6	3.9	4.0	3.2	-0.8
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	5.3	5.2	4.6	4.8	0.2

Total, 25 years and over	3.4	3.4	3.4	3.4	0.0
Less than a high school diploma	6.7	5.5	5.4	4.7	-0.7
High school graduates, no college	4.3	4.2	4.0	4.4	0.4
Some college or associate degree	3.2	3.6	3.6	3.7	0.1
Bachelor's degree and higher	2.7	2.7	2.7	2.7	0.0

Reason for unemployment
Job losers and people who completed temporary jobs	3,447	3,278	3,309	3,245	-64
Job leavers	785	776	793	914	121
Reentrants	2,302	2,237	2,123	2,137	14
New entrants	792	772	761	702	-59

Duration of unemployment
Less than 5 weeks	2,475	2,182	1,960	2,000	40
5 to 14 weeks	2,058	1,936	2,049	2,077	28
15 to 26 weeks	1,051	1,052	1,157	1,147	-10
27 weeks and over	1,924	1,937	1,771	1,930	159

Employed people at work part time
Part time for economic reasons	4,755	4,681	4,804	4,390	-414
Slack work or business conditions	3,069	3,010	3,019	2,815	-204
Could only find part-time work	1,332	1,409	1,428	1,263	-165
Part time for noneconomic reasons	23,270	22,618	22,770	22,752	-18

People not in the labor force
Marginally attached to the labor force	1,836	1,761	1,806	1,704	-102
Discouraged workers	519	477	476	441	-35
Footnotes (1) The population figures are not adjusted for seasonal variation.
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.

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Last Modified Date: September 04, 2026