Table 3. Unemployment in families by presence and relationship of employed members and family type, 2024-2025 annual averages

Table 3. Unemployment in families by presence and relationship of employed members and family type, 2024-2025 annual averages [Numbers in thousands]
Characteristic	Number		Percent distribution
Characteristic	2024	2025	2024	2025
TOTAL MARRIED-COUPLE FAMILIES
With at least one family member unemployed, total	2,604	2,832	100.0	100.0
Employment of family members
Some family member(s) employed	2,151	2,306	82.6	81.4
No family member employed	453	526	17.4	18.6
Unemployment of family members
At least one spouse unemployed(1)	1,642	1,781	63.0	62.9
One spouse employed	1,210	1,302	46.4	46.0
Other family member(s) unemployed	963	1,051	37.0	37.1

Opposite-sex married-couple families
With at least one family member unemployed, total	2,574	2,786	100.0	100.0
Employment of family members
Some family member(s) employed	2,123	2,269	82.5	81.4
No family member employed	451	517	17.5	18.6
Unemployment of family members
Husband unemployed(2)	874	950	33.9	34.1
Wife employed	551	592	21.4	21.2
Wife unemployed, husband employed or not in labor force	744	794	28.9	28.5
Husband employed	637	680	24.7	24.4
Other family member(s) unemployed	957	1,043	37.2	37.4

FAMILIES MAINTAINED BY WOMEN(3)
With at least one family member unemployed, total	1,258	1,411	100.0	100.0
Employment of family members
Some family member(s) employed	714	790	56.8	56.0
No family member employed	544	621	43.2	44.0
Unemployment of family members
Householder unemployed	564	629	44.8	44.6
Other member(s) employed	173	184	13.8	13.0
Other family member(s) unemployed	694	782	55.2	55.4

FAMILIES MAINTAINED BY MEN(3)
With at least one family member unemployed, total	634	622	100.0	100.0
Employment of family members
Some family member(s) employed	374	397	59.0	63.8
No family member employed	260	225	41.0	36.2
Unemployment of family members
Householder unemployed	356	344	56.2	55.3
Other member(s) employed	160	178	25.2	28.6
Other family member(s) unemployed	278	278	43.8	44.7
Footnotes (1) Includes families with both spouses unemployed. (2) Total opposite-sex married couple families with unemployed husbands, including those with unemployed wives. (3) Includes families with no spouse present.
NOTE: In families maintained by women or men with no spouse present, householder refers to the woman or man maintaining the family. Detail may not sum to totals due to rounding. 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.

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