Table 4. Extent of unemployment during the year by race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, 2023-2024

Table 4. Extent of unemployment during the year by race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, 2023-2024
[Numbers in thousands]
Extent of unemployment, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	Total		Men		Women
	2023	2024	2023	2024	2023	2024
WHITE
Total who worked or looked for work	133,046	133,972	71,184	71,353	61,862	62,619
Percent with unemployment	7.3	7.6	7.8	8.1	6.7	7.1
Total with unemployment	9,722	10,186	5,567	5,766	4,155	4,420
Did not work but looked for work	1,568	1,640	921	864	647	775
Worked during the year	8,153	8,547	4,646	4,902	3,507	3,645
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	12.9	13.4	13.2	13.5	12.4	13.2
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	3.7	3.7	3.8	4.0	3.6	3.3
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	96.3	96.3	96.2	96.0	96.4	96.7
1 to 4 weeks	24.2	22.5	22.5	20.7	26.4	24.8
5 to 14 weeks	28.7	28.9	28.9	30.2	28.4	27.2
15 weeks or more	43.4	44.9	44.7	45.1	41.6	44.7
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	20.5	19.1	20.6	21.0	20.4	16.5
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN
Total who worked or looked for work	22,450	23,036	10,686	11,017	11,764	12,018
Percent with unemployment	10.5	11.7	11.1	12.8	10.0	10.7
Total with unemployment	2,359	2,698	1,187	1,407	1,172	1,291
Did not work but looked for work	493	649	275	294	217	355
Worked during the year	1,867	2,049	912	1,113	955	936
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	14.2	16.3	14.6	15.9	13.7	16.9
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	2.8	2.7	2.1	2.7	3.5	2.7
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	97.2	97.3	97.9	97.3	96.5	97.3
1 to 4 weeks	20.5	19.3	15.3	20.3	25.4	18.2
5 to 14 weeks	29.3	25.5	34.0	25.2	24.9	25.9
15 weeks or more	47.4	52.5	48.6	51.9	46.2	53.2
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	17.5	17.9	19.6	18.8	15.4	17.0
ASIAN
Total who worked or looked for work	11,986	13,052	6,321	6,932	5,665	6,119
Percent with unemployment	6.8	6.7	6.8	6.3	6.8	7.1
Total with unemployment	811	877	428	439	383	437
Did not work but looked for work	183	138	95	70	88	68
Worked during the year	628	738	333	369	295	369
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	14.5	15.3	16.3	17.0	13.1	13.9
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	3.1	1.7	2.7	1.8	3.7	1.6
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	96.9	98.3	97.3	98.2	96.3	98.4
1 to 4 weeks	22.7	18.6	17.9	18.5	28.1	18.7
5 to 14 weeks	25.7	29.0	26.9	24.7	24.4	33.3
15 weeks or more	48.5	50.7	52.6	55.0	43.8	46.4
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	20.3	14.8	19.5	15.1	21.3	14.5
HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY
Total who worked or looked for work	33,200	35,041	18,485	19,375	14,716	15,666
Percent with unemployment	9.8	9.8	10.2	10.4	9.3	9.1
Total with unemployment	3,256	3,446	1,892	2,017	1,365	1,429
Did not work but looked for work	531	572	265	303	266	270
Worked during the year	2,725	2,874	1,627	1,715	1,099	1,159
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	15.2	14.2	14.7	14.3	16.0	13.9
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	3.5	3.5	4.2	3.8	2.5	3.1
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	96.5	96.5	95.8	96.2	97.5	96.9
1 to 4 weeks	18.9	18.2	17.0	17.0	21.7	20.0
5 to 14 weeks	27.1	31.6	29.7	31.9	23.2	31.2
15 weeks or more	50.5	46.7	49.1	47.3	52.6	45.7
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	21.8	20.8	23.0	22.6	20.0	18.0
(1) Time worked includes paid vacation and sick leave. (2) Worked 50 or 51 weeks. (3) Worked less than 50 weeks.
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals shown in table 3 because data are not presented for all races. People whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. 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 75,000).

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Last Modified Date: January 22, 2026