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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New Jersey

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New Jersey

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)4,599,138	(r)4,599,819	(r)4,600,965	(r)4,601,645	(r)4,600,754	(r)4,597,878	(r)4,594,206	(r)4,591,020	(r)4,589,208	(r)4,590,617	(r)4,595,758	(r)4,602,656
2016	(r)4,608,942	(r)4,613,440	(r)4,615,485	(r)4,615,927	(r)4,616,116	(r)4,615,959	(r)4,615,331	(r)4,614,705	(r)4,614,140	(r)4,612,396	(r)4,609,536	(r)4,607,400
2017	(r)4,607,318	(r)4,609,280	(r)4,612,471	(r)4,616,364	(r)4,619,842	(r)4,622,054	(r)4,622,218	(r)4,619,239	(r)4,613,608	(r)4,606,841	(r)4,599,881	(r)4,593,657
2018	(r)4,590,359	(r)4,592,098	(r)4,598,161	(r)4,605,163	(r)4,610,201	(r)4,612,096	(r)4,611,059	(r)4,609,237	(r)4,608,780	(r)4,611,131	(r)4,616,532	(r)4,623,928
2019	(r)4,631,274	(r)4,637,559	(r)4,643,984	(r)4,652,828	(r)4,665,140	(r)4,680,591	(r)4,697,847	(r)4,715,055	(r)4,731,072	(r)4,745,300	(r)4,757,345	(r)4,764,786
2020	(r)4,765,234	(r)4,757,142	(r)4,742,018	(r)4,478,993	(r)4,571,265	(r)4,628,508	(r)4,732,543	(r)4,754,575	(r)4,520,716	(r)4,552,900	(r)4,591,781	(r)4,616,267
2021	(r)4,629,449	(r)4,638,396	(r)4,646,101	(r)4,658,977	(r)4,659,268	(r)4,678,631	(r)4,670,544	(r)4,670,241	(r)4,653,023	(r)4,649,751	(r)4,645,996	(r)4,654,876
2022	(r)4,678,310	(r)4,692,010	(r)4,705,793	(r)4,725,553	(r)4,740,787	(r)4,757,657	(r)4,769,694	(r)4,781,164	(r)4,790,849	(r)4,802,020	(r)4,813,930	(r)4,825,704
2023	(r)4,837,130	(r)4,848,088	(r)4,857,618	(r)4,864,978	(r)4,869,734	(r)4,872,477	(r)4,874,377	(r)4,875,311	(r)4,875,031	(r)4,873,950	(r)4,873,615	(r)4,874,574
2024	(r)4,876,755	(r)4,881,124	(r)4,887,906	(r)4,895,749	(r)4,903,227	(r)4,908,736	(r)4,910,706	(r)4,909,638	(r)4,907,142	(r)4,904,466	(r)4,903,351	(r)4,903,331
2025	4,898,499	4,897,945	(p)4,897,268
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)4,307,181	(r)4,310,233	(r)4,314,341	(r)4,319,441	(r)4,324,741	(r)4,329,561	(r)4,334,275	(r)4,339,449	(r)4,345,839	(r)4,354,418	(r)4,364,483	(r)4,373,885
2016	(r)4,380,800	(r)4,384,641	(r)4,385,513	(r)4,384,603	(r)4,383,590	(r)4,383,136	(r)4,383,494	(r)4,384,607	(r)4,385,808	(r)4,386,458	(r)4,387,598	(r)4,390,595
2017	(r)4,395,510	(r)4,401,732	(r)4,407,830	(r)4,412,814	(r)4,415,756	(r)4,415,854	(r)4,412,977	(r)4,407,512	(r)4,400,750	(r)4,394,376	(r)4,388,931	(r)4,385,709
2018	(r)4,386,416	(r)4,392,094	(r)4,401,537	(r)4,411,555	(r)4,419,465	(r)4,424,839	(r)4,428,154	(r)4,430,703	(r)4,433,869	(r)4,439,032	(r)4,446,827	(r)4,456,667
2019	(r)4,467,242	(r)4,478,287	(r)4,490,012	(r)4,503,205	(r)4,517,290	(r)4,530,891	(r)4,542,822	(r)4,552,738	(r)4,561,908	(r)4,569,881	(r)4,576,022	(r)4,578,023
2020	(r)4,573,720	(r)4,562,044	(r)4,546,335	(r)3,808,817	(r)3,865,414	(r)3,957,596	(r)4,048,735	(r)4,121,175	(r)4,185,335	(r)4,229,192	(r)4,260,768	(r)4,279,403
2021	(r)4,290,143	(r)4,298,598	(r)4,309,563	(r)4,321,358	(r)4,332,103	(r)4,340,531	(r)4,346,918	(r)4,354,081	(r)4,361,670	(r)4,372,500	(r)4,384,304	(r)4,396,956
2022	(r)4,434,623	(r)4,470,475	(r)4,502,609	(r)4,532,963	(r)4,561,132	(r)4,587,926	(r)4,612,549	(r)4,636,045	(r)4,634,875	(r)4,635,850	(r)4,639,185	(r)4,644,376
2023	(r)4,650,333	(r)4,656,588	(r)4,662,043	(r)4,665,511	(r)4,665,885	(r)4,664,110	(r)4,661,785	(r)4,659,391	(r)4,657,225	(r)4,655,670	(r)4,655,638	(r)4,657,392
2024	(r)4,660,831	(r)4,665,741	(r)4,671,305	(r)4,676,713	(r)4,681,620	(r)4,684,975	(r)4,685,420	(r)4,683,712	(r)4,681,283	(r)4,678,938	(r)4,678,009	(r)4,678,030
2025	4,673,290	4,672,171	(p)4,668,191
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)291,957	(r)289,586	(r)286,624	(r)282,204	(r)276,013	(r)268,317	(r)259,931	(r)251,571	(r)243,369	(r)236,199	(r)231,275	(r)228,771
2016	(r)228,142	(r)228,799	(r)229,972	(r)231,324	(r)232,526	(r)232,823	(r)231,837	(r)230,098	(r)228,332	(r)225,938	(r)221,938	(r)216,805
2017	(r)211,808	(r)207,548	(r)204,641	(r)203,550	(r)204,086	(r)206,200	(r)209,241	(r)211,727	(r)212,858	(r)212,465	(r)210,950	(r)207,948
2018	(r)203,943	(r)200,004	(r)196,624	(r)193,608	(r)190,736	(r)187,257	(r)182,905	(r)178,534	(r)174,911	(r)172,099	(r)169,705	(r)167,261
2019	(r)164,032	(r)159,272	(r)153,972	(r)149,623	(r)147,850	(r)149,700	(r)155,025	(r)162,317	(r)169,164	(r)175,419	(r)181,323	(r)186,763
2020	(r)191,514	(r)195,098	(r)195,683	(r)670,176	(r)705,851	(r)670,912	(r)683,808	(r)633,400	(r)335,381	(r)323,708	(r)331,013	(r)336,864
2021	(r)339,306	(r)339,798	(r)336,538	(r)337,619	(r)327,165	(r)338,100	(r)323,626	(r)316,160	(r)291,353	(r)277,251	(r)261,692	(r)257,920
2022	(r)243,687	(r)221,535	(r)203,184	(r)192,590	(r)179,655	(r)169,731	(r)157,145	(r)145,119	(r)155,974	(r)166,170	(r)174,745	(r)181,328
2023	(r)186,797	(r)191,500	(r)195,575	(r)199,467	(r)203,849	(r)208,367	(r)212,592	(r)215,920	(r)217,806	(r)218,280	(r)217,977	(r)217,182
2024	(r)215,924	(r)215,383	(r)216,601	(r)219,036	(r)221,607	(r)223,761	(r)225,286	(r)225,926	(r)225,859	(r)225,528	(r)225,342	(r)225,301
2025	225,209	225,774	(p)229,077
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)6.3	(r)6.3	(r)6.2	(r)6.1	(r)6.0	(r)5.8	(r)5.7	(r)5.5	(r)5.3	(r)5.1	(r)5.0	(r)5.0
2016	(r)4.9	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)4.9	(r)4.9	(r)4.8	(r)4.7
2017	(r)4.6	(r)4.5	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.5
2018	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(r)4.1	(r)4.1	(r)4.0	(r)3.9	(r)3.8	(r)3.7	(r)3.7	(r)3.6
2019	(r)3.5	(r)3.4	(r)3.3	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.2	(r)3.3	(r)3.4	(r)3.6	(r)3.7	(r)3.8	(r)3.9
2020	(r)4.0	(r)4.1	(r)4.1	(r)15.0	(r)15.4	(r)14.5	(r)14.4	(r)13.3	(r)7.4	(r)7.1	(r)7.2	(r)7.3
2021	(r)7.3	(r)7.3	(r)7.2	(r)7.2	(r)7.0	(r)7.2	(r)6.9	(r)6.8	(r)6.3	(r)6.0	(r)5.6	(r)5.5
2022	(r)5.2	(r)4.7	(r)4.3	(r)4.1	(r)3.8	(r)3.6	(r)3.3	(r)3.0	(r)3.3	(r)3.5	(r)3.6	(r)3.8
2023	(r)3.9	(r)4.0	(r)4.0	(r)4.1	(r)4.2	(r)4.3	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.5
2024	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)4.5	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6	(r)4.6
2025	4.6	4.6	(p)4.7
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)4,568,362	(r)4,582,442	(r)4,586,396	(r)4,593,559	(r)4,615,402	(r)4,648,272	(r)4,661,328	(r)4,613,691	(r)4,538,356	(r)4,583,314	(r)4,583,318	(r)4,587,817	(r)4,596,855
2016	(r)4,564,995	(r)4,606,207	(r)4,629,073	(r)4,605,275	(r)4,603,864	(r)4,657,613	(r)4,684,104	(r)4,634,803	(r)4,587,701	(r)4,603,549	(r)4,585,680	(r)4,591,644	(r)4,612,876
2017	(r)4,578,118	(r)4,604,284	(r)4,610,100	(r)4,611,386	(r)4,607,636	(r)4,660,357	(r)4,681,724	(r)4,641,194	(r)4,592,329	(r)4,594,878	(r)4,584,541	(r)4,577,897	(r)4,612,037
2018	(r)4,558,443	(r)4,605,121	(r)4,595,266	(r)4,578,741	(r)4,589,961	(r)4,666,826	(r)4,683,277	(r)4,611,979	(r)4,564,339	(r)4,606,627	(r)4,605,239	(r)4,623,414	(r)4,607,436
2019	(r)4,617,778	(r)4,646,118	(r)4,645,047	(r)4,618,400	(r)4,641,166	(r)4,709,967	(r)4,759,041	(r)4,730,719	(r)4,701,189	(r)4,744,133	(r)4,744,867	(r)4,760,044	(r)4,693,206
2020	(r)4,751,285	(r)4,776,932	(r)4,756,332	(r)4,459,348	(r)4,517,302	(r)4,655,600	(r)4,757,477	(r)4,791,100	(r)4,488,599	(r)4,577,858	(r)4,593,980	(r)4,598,581	(r)4,643,700
2021	(r)4,605,214	(r)4,638,565	(r)4,652,782	(r)4,638,120	(r)4,632,155	(r)4,708,353	(r)4,736,053	(r)4,685,168	(r)4,614,424	(r)4,640,557	(r)4,641,772	(r)4,657,757	(r)4,654,243
2022	(r)4,653,132	(r)4,686,645	(r)4,719,397	(r)4,707,710	(r)4,725,266	(r)4,783,477	(r)4,810,793	(r)4,812,118	(r)4,757,856	(r)4,804,938	(r)4,793,494	(r)4,817,199	(r)4,756,002
2023	(r)4,814,166	(r)4,853,424	(r)4,868,991	(r)4,841,566	(r)4,852,943	(r)4,911,207	(r)4,920,643	(r)4,903,103	(r)4,840,043	(r)4,864,163	(r)4,871,100	(r)4,864,005	(r)4,867,113
2024	(r)4,840,049	(r)4,877,205	(r)4,903,691	(r)4,885,809	(r)4,873,081	(r)4,951,078	(r)4,974,752	(r)4,933,691	(r)4,867,052	(r)4,898,713	(r)4,884,427	(r)4,886,545	(r)4,898,008
2025	4,850,144	4,899,840	(p)4,909,268
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)4,255,403	(r)4,275,342	(r)4,297,661	(r)4,327,449	(r)4,335,624	(r)4,371,234	(r)4,368,431	(r)4,358,637	(r)4,306,597	(r)4,362,839	(r)4,367,277	(r)4,382,165	(r)4,334,055
2016	(r)4,329,824	(r)4,363,710	(r)4,384,291	(r)4,379,442	(r)4,381,242	(r)4,420,656	(r)4,424,691	(r)4,396,004	(r)4,363,219	(r)4,391,879	(r)4,390,773	(r)4,394,026	(r)4,384,980
2017	(r)4,349,196	(r)4,373,729	(r)4,402,971	(r)4,421,899	(r)4,407,172	(r)4,450,044	(r)4,449,197	(r)4,417,556	(r)4,386,761	(r)4,400,991	(r)4,390,757	(r)4,393,570	(r)4,403,654
2018	(r)4,338,342	(r)4,380,344	(r)4,386,341	(r)4,400,008	(r)4,416,492	(r)4,465,669	(r)4,471,963	(r)4,425,758	(r)4,402,282	(r)4,456,901	(r)4,464,012	(r)4,468,078	(r)4,423,016
2019	(r)4,425,729	(r)4,462,146	(r)4,480,552	(r)4,488,996	(r)4,503,826	(r)4,557,620	(r)4,577,515	(r)4,558,742	(r)4,545,990	(r)4,586,021	(r)4,583,342	(r)4,589,409	(r)4,529,991
2020	(r)4,544,443	(r)4,571,873	(r)4,520,249	(r)3,817,061	(r)3,812,152	(r)3,977,817	(r)4,047,033	(r)4,168,222	(r)4,161,508	(r)4,275,702	(r)4,276,039	(r)4,279,507	(r)4,204,301
2021	(r)4,245,951	(r)4,276,285	(r)4,305,960	(r)4,317,120	(r)4,318,189	(r)4,354,240	(r)4,385,152	(r)4,362,231	(r)4,332,925	(r)4,385,583	(r)4,400,794	(r)4,420,472	(r)4,342,075
2022	(r)4,388,383	(r)4,445,920	(r)4,507,801	(r)4,529,795	(r)4,554,644	(r)4,605,173	(r)4,630,227	(r)4,651,263	(r)4,618,871	(r)4,653,702	(r)4,635,583	(r)4,653,184	(r)4,572,879
2023	(r)4,611,229	(r)4,638,799	(r)4,668,242	(r)4,668,188	(r)4,650,296	(r)4,690,949	(r)4,689,308	(r)4,670,830	(r)4,631,988	(r)4,659,286	(r)4,675,037	(r)4,663,193	(r)4,659,779
2024	(r)4,611,216	(r)4,640,594	(r)4,679,823	(r)4,689,080	(r)4,663,505	(r)4,718,936	(r)4,712,171	(r)4,689,209	(r)4,662,860	(r)4,692,144	(r)4,672,989	(r)4,680,237	(r)4,676,064
2025	4,610,503	4,652,573	(p)4,663,513
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)312,959	(r)307,100	(r)288,735	(r)266,110	(r)279,778	(r)277,038	(r)292,897	(r)255,054	(r)231,759	(r)220,475	(r)216,041	(r)205,652	(r)262,800
2016	(r)235,171	(r)242,497	(r)244,782	(r)225,833	(r)222,622	(r)236,957	(r)259,413	(r)238,799	(r)224,482	(r)211,670	(r)194,907	(r)197,618	(r)227,896
2017	(r)228,922	(r)230,555	(r)207,129	(r)189,487	(r)200,464	(r)210,313	(r)232,527	(r)223,638	(r)205,568	(r)193,887	(r)193,784	(r)184,327	(r)208,383
2018	(r)220,101	(r)224,777	(r)208,925	(r)178,733	(r)173,469	(r)201,157	(r)211,314	(r)186,221	(r)162,057	(r)149,726	(r)141,227	(r)155,336	(r)184,420
2019	(r)192,049	(r)183,972	(r)164,495	(r)129,404	(r)137,340	(r)152,347	(r)181,526	(r)171,977	(r)155,199	(r)158,112	(r)161,525	(r)170,635	(r)163,215
2020	(r)206,842	(r)205,059	(r)236,083	(r)642,287	(r)705,150	(r)677,783	(r)710,444	(r)622,878	(r)327,091	(r)302,156	(r)317,941	(r)319,074	(r)439,399
2021	(r)359,263	(r)362,280	(r)346,822	(r)321,000	(r)313,966	(r)354,113	(r)350,901	(r)322,937	(r)281,499	(r)254,974	(r)240,978	(r)237,285	(r)312,168
2022	(r)264,749	(r)240,725	(r)211,596	(r)177,915	(r)170,622	(r)178,304	(r)180,566	(r)160,855	(r)138,985	(r)151,236	(r)157,911	(r)164,015	(r)183,123
2023	(r)202,937	(r)214,625	(r)200,749	(r)173,378	(r)202,647	(r)220,258	(r)231,335	(r)232,273	(r)208,055	(r)204,877	(r)196,063	(r)200,812	(r)207,334
2024	(r)228,833	(r)236,611	(r)223,868	(r)196,729	(r)209,576	(r)232,142	(r)262,581	(r)244,482	(r)204,192	(r)206,569	(r)211,438	(r)206,308	(r)221,944
2025	239,641	247,267	(p)245,755
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	(r)6.9	(r)6.7	(r)6.3	(r)5.8	(r)6.1	(r)6.0	(r)6.3	(r)5.5	(r)5.1	(r)4.8	(r)4.7	(r)4.5	(r)5.7
2016	(r)5.2	(r)5.3	(r)5.3	(r)4.9	(r)4.8	(r)5.1	(r)5.5	(r)5.2	(r)4.9	(r)4.6	(r)4.3	(r)4.3	(r)4.9
2017	(r)5.0	(r)5.0	(r)4.5	(r)4.1	(r)4.4	(r)4.5	(r)5.0	(r)4.8	(r)4.5	(r)4.2	(r)4.2	(r)4.0	(r)4.5
2018	(r)4.8	(r)4.9	(r)4.5	(r)3.9	(r)3.8	(r)4.3	(r)4.5	(r)4.0	(r)3.6	(r)3.3	(r)3.1	(r)3.4	(r)4.0
2019	(r)4.2	(r)4.0	(r)3.5	(r)2.8	(r)3.0	(r)3.2	(r)3.8	(r)3.6	(r)3.3	(r)3.3	(r)3.4	(r)3.6	(r)3.5
2020	(r)4.4	(r)4.3	(r)5.0	(r)14.4	(r)15.6	(r)14.6	(r)14.9	(r)13.0	(r)7.3	(r)6.6	(r)6.9	(r)6.9	(r)9.5
2021	(r)7.8	(r)7.8	(r)7.5	(r)6.9	(r)6.8	(r)7.5	(r)7.4	(r)6.9	(r)6.1	(r)5.5	(r)5.2	(r)5.1	(r)6.7
2022	(r)5.7	(r)5.1	(r)4.5	(r)3.8	(r)3.6	(r)3.7	(r)3.8	(r)3.3	(r)2.9	(r)3.1	(r)3.3	(r)3.4	(r)3.9
2023	(r)4.2	(r)4.4	(r)4.1	(r)3.6	(r)4.2	(r)4.5	(r)4.7	(r)4.7	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(r)4.0	(r)4.1	(r)4.3
2024	(r)4.7	(r)4.9	(r)4.6	(r)4.0	(r)4.3	(r)4.7	(r)5.3	(r)5.0	(r)4.2	(r)4.2	(r)4.3	(r)4.2	(r)4.5
2025	4.9	5.0	(p)5.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary (r) Revised
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).