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Nevada unemployment rate drops 21.5 percentage points for year ended April 2021
May 27, 2021
For the year ended April 2021, 48 states and the District of Columbia had jobless rate decreases and 2 states had little change. In total, 27 states had unemployment rates lower than the U.S. figure of 6.1 percent, 11 states and the District of Columbia had higher rates, and 12 states had rates that were not appreciably different from that of the nation.
Unemployment rate, 12-month change in the unemployment rate, and number of unemployed in April 2021, by state, seasonally adjusted
State
Unemployment rate
12-month change
Number of unemployed
Alabama
3.6%
-9.6 percentage point(s)
79,332
Alaska
6.7
-5.1
23,629
Arizona
6.7
-7.5
239,495
Arkansas
4.4
-5.6
59,389
California
8.3
-7.7
1,576,120
Colorado
6.4
-5.7
204,565
Connecticut
8.1
-0.5
140,517
Delaware
6.4
-7.0
31,068
District of Columbia
7.5
-3.6
30,551
Florida
4.8
-9.2
487,388
Georgia
4.3
-8.2
221,140
Hawaii
8.5
-13.4
55,356
Idaho
3.1
-8.5
28,156
Illinois
7.1
-9.4
438,057
Indiana
3.9
-13.0
131,101
Iowa
3.8
-7.3
61,648
Kansas
3.5
-9.1
52,717
Kentucky
4.7
-12.2
94,016
Louisiana
7.3
-5.8
150,425
Maine
4.8
-4.3
32,531
Maryland
6.2
-2.8
193,122
Massachusetts
6.5
-9.9
241,669
Michigan
4.9
-18.7
231,484
Minnesota
4.1
-4.9
122,934
Mississippi
6.2
-9.5
79,305
Missouri
4.1
-8.4
126,758
Montana
3.7
-8.2
19,603
Nebraska
2.8
-4.6
28,415
Nevada
8.0
-21.5
124,962
New Hampshire
2.8
-13.2
21,410
New Jersey
7.5
-9.1
332,999
New Mexico
8.2
-1.8
78,028
New York
8.2
-8.0
778,389
North Carolina
5.0
-8.5
250,865
North Dakota
4.2
-4.5
16,838
Ohio
4.7
-11.7
272,516
Oklahoma
4.3
-8.7
79,583
Oregon
6.0
-7.2
129,279
Pennsylvania
7.4
-8.8
466,316
Rhode Island
6.3
-11.1
33,857
South Carolina
5.0
-6.5
118,377
South Dakota
2.8
-6.4
13,062
Tennessee
5.0
-10.8
166,971
Texas
6.7
-6.2
943,503
Utah
2.8
-7.3
45,094
Vermont
2.9
-11.9
8,967
Virginia
4.7
-6.6
197,338
Washington
5.5
-10.8
213,104
West Virginia
5.8
-9.8
45,793
Wisconsin
3.9
-10.9
119,254
Wyoming
5.4
-0.1
15,918
In April 2021, Hawaii had the highest unemployment rate, at 8.5 percent, followed by California, 8.3 percent, and New Mexico and New York, 8.2 percent each. Nebraska, New Hampshire, South Dakota, and Utah had the lowest rates, 2.8 percent each.
The largest unemployment rate decrease from April 2020 to April 2021 occurred in Nevada (−21.5 percentage points). The next largest over-the-year jobless rate decrease was in Michigan (−18.7 percentage points), with another 10 states experiencing declines of 10.0 points or more.
United States Department of Labor
