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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
2014	4,474,601	4,475,891	4,478,887	4,482,331	4,486,012	4,490,716	4,496,114	4,502,037	4,507,583	4,510,847	4,510,783	4,508,668
2015	4,506,245	4,504,414	4,503,300	4,502,099	4,499,740	4,495,690	4,490,941	4,486,690	4,483,815	4,484,030	4,487,793	4,493,120
2016	4,497,590	4,500,079	4,500,037	4,498,429	4,496,747	4,495,078	4,493,345	4,491,870	4,490,549	4,488,150	4,484,804	4,482,046
2017	4,608,916	4,611,297	4,615,010	4,619,442	4,623,330	4,625,598	4,625,490	4,622,153	4,616,269	4,609,435	4,602,632	4,596,953
2018	4,589,597	4,591,388	4,597,167	4,603,634	4,608,051	4,609,385	4,607,904	4,605,741	4,604,978	4,607,016	4,612,105	4,619,188
2019	4,627,332	4,633,559	4,639,952	4,648,678	4,660,681	4,675,602	4,692,162	4,708,611	4,723,935	4,737,597	4,749,183	4,756,178
2020	4,756,029	4,747,171	4,731,372	4,473,145	4,568,592	4,626,728	4,729,147	4,751,179	4,518,009	4,549,406	4,587,180	4,610,180
2021	4,623,935	4,633,685	4,642,143	4,655,053	4,655,631	4,675,819	4,666,409	4,665,376	4,646,966	4,642,157	4,636,784	4,644,254
2022	4,666,847	4,679,641	4,692,785	4,711,517	4,726,125	4,741,716	4,751,100	4,759,371	4,766,160	4,774,057	4,782,897	4,792,345
2023	4,802,664	4,813,871	4,824,433	4,832,802	4,837,877	4,839,708	4,838,977	4,836,467	4,833,817	4,832,097	4,831,775	4,832,330
2024	4,824,539	4,819,665	4,819,879	4,824,210	4,821,230	4,829,272	4,840,076	4,849,802	(p)4,846,666
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	4,148,926	4,157,794	4,167,358	4,175,971	4,183,785	4,191,512	4,198,635	4,205,182	4,211,077	4,215,767	4,218,647	4,220,057
2015	4,221,064	4,222,229	4,224,426	4,227,666	4,231,181	4,234,299	4,237,324	4,240,738	4,245,263	4,251,866	4,260,009	4,267,692
2016	4,273,085	4,275,593	4,275,290	4,273,344	4,271,365	4,269,959	4,269,348	4,269,454	4,269,602	4,269,123	4,268,999	4,270,453
2017	4,396,117	4,402,506	4,408,891	4,414,239	4,417,571	4,418,021	4,415,446	4,410,238	4,403,727	4,397,686	4,392,811	4,390,479
2018	4,385,453	4,391,311	4,400,669	4,410,368	4,417,829	4,422,709	4,425,537	4,427,631	4,430,370	4,435,151	4,442,666	4,452,345
2019	4,463,689	4,474,694	4,486,361	4,499,413	4,513,215	4,526,389	4,537,805	4,547,199	4,555,901	4,563,497	4,569,340	4,571,091
2020	4,566,532	4,554,559	4,538,594	3,803,836	3,864,862	3,957,242	4,047,737	4,119,998	4,183,380	4,226,791	4,257,812	4,276,162
2021	4,286,991	4,296,247	4,307,957	4,320,316	4,331,017	4,339,051	4,344,127	4,349,663	4,355,117	4,363,971	4,374,192	4,385,956
2022	4,422,589	4,458,231	4,490,245	4,520,224	4,547,208	4,571,814	4,593,109	4,612,653	4,607,932	4,605,478	4,606,065	4,609,607
2023	4,615,271	4,622,488	4,629,154	4,633,005	4,632,272	4,627,564	4,619,902	4,611,114	4,603,906	4,599,565	4,599,624	4,600,849
2024	4,592,192	4,588,497	4,590,776	4,598,066	4,597,346	4,606,945	4,614,124	4,618,410	(p)4,617,569
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	325,675	318,097	311,529	306,360	302,227	299,204	297,479	296,855	296,506	295,080	292,136	288,611
2015	285,181	282,185	278,874	274,433	268,559	261,391	253,617	245,952	238,552	232,164	227,784	225,428
2016	224,505	224,486	224,747	225,085	225,382	225,119	223,997	222,416	220,947	219,027	215,805	211,593
2017	212,799	208,791	206,119	205,203	205,759	207,577	210,044	211,915	212,542	211,749	209,821	206,474
2018	204,144	200,077	196,498	193,266	190,222	186,676	182,367	178,110	174,608	171,865	169,439	166,843
2019	163,643	158,865	153,591	149,265	147,466	149,213	154,357	161,412	168,034	174,100	179,843	185,087
2020	189,497	192,612	192,778	669,309	703,730	669,486	681,410	631,181	334,629	322,615	329,368	334,018
2021	336,944	337,438	334,186	334,737	324,614	336,768	322,282	315,713	291,849	278,186	262,592	258,298
2022	244,258	221,410	202,540	191,293	178,917	169,902	157,991	146,718	158,228	168,579	176,832	182,738
2023	187,393	191,383	195,279	199,797	205,605	212,144	219,075	225,353	229,911	232,532	232,151	231,481
2024	232,347	231,168	229,103	226,144	223,884	222,327	225,952	231,392	(p)229,097
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	7.3	7.1	7.0	6.8	6.7	6.7	6.6	6.6	6.6	6.5	6.5	6.4
2015	6.3	6.3	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.8	5.6	5.5	5.3	5.2	5.1	5.0
2016	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.8	4.7
2017	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5
2018	4.4	4.4	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.7	3.7	3.6
2019	3.5	3.4	3.3	3.2	3.2	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.9
2020	4.0	4.1	4.1	15.0	15.4	14.5	14.4	13.3	7.4	7.1	7.2	7.2
2021	7.3	7.3	7.2	7.2	7.0	7.2	6.9	6.8	6.3	6.0	5.7	5.6
2022	5.2	4.7	4.3	4.1	3.8	3.6	3.3	3.1	3.3	3.5	3.7	3.8
2023	3.9	4.0	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.7	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8
2024	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.7	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.8	(p)4.7
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	4,438,201	4,469,828	4,480,907	4,461,781	4,485,892	4,533,074	4,565,467	4,531,509	4,468,366	4,503,785	4,498,094	4,489,822	4,493,894
2015	4,477,771	4,491,589	4,488,375	4,489,228	4,514,465	4,543,321	4,554,682	4,508,933	4,435,583	4,476,557	4,475,499	4,479,268	4,494,606
2016	4,457,524	4,497,227	4,510,977	4,485,124	4,485,101	4,534,421	4,558,990	4,510,968	4,466,513	4,479,229	4,462,969	4,464,806	4,492,821
2017	4,584,364	4,609,343	4,613,450	4,611,161	4,610,590	4,660,510	4,682,463	4,639,326	4,596,726	4,595,209	4,590,164	4,586,134	4,614,953
2018	4,557,386	4,603,452	4,593,217	4,575,865	4,590,010	4,658,793	4,677,331	4,607,621	4,565,659	4,605,478	4,603,630	4,619,006	4,604,787
2019	4,615,734	4,642,445	4,641,283	4,613,740	4,639,244	4,702,612	4,751,273	4,721,620	4,696,117	4,736,122	4,737,172	4,751,316	4,687,390
2020	4,744,881	4,768,302	4,746,190	4,452,256	4,515,852	4,648,858	4,753,430	4,786,626	4,488,355	4,573,725	4,589,232	4,592,922	4,638,386
2021	4,604,139	4,634,410	4,648,670	4,633,054	4,630,976	4,700,203	4,729,653	4,675,730	4,610,768	4,633,783	4,635,250	4,649,126	4,648,814
2022	4,646,325	4,675,795	4,706,559	4,690,663	4,711,353	4,761,183	4,788,554	4,785,046	4,737,159	4,777,586	4,767,125	4,787,205	4,736,213
2023	4,786,023	4,820,462	4,835,499	4,804,763	4,821,413	4,874,332	4,878,125	4,854,917	4,803,602	4,824,862	4,829,088	4,822,968	4,829,671
2024	4,769,527	4,807,251	4,842,974	4,824,872	4,786,276	4,890,221	4,916,847	4,887,769	(p)4,776,505
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	4,098,525	4,124,333	4,151,097	4,181,671	4,189,536	4,233,118	4,237,720	4,220,907	4,180,293	4,227,716	4,223,565	4,227,330	4,191,318
2015	4,171,054	4,189,464	4,206,336	4,230,928	4,243,037	4,275,125	4,273,000	4,261,796	4,207,966	4,258,444	4,262,743	4,274,614	4,237,876
2016	4,223,367	4,256,058	4,272,113	4,266,083	4,269,416	4,306,772	4,312,161	4,283,109	4,248,752	4,272,459	4,271,741	4,272,378	4,271,201
2017	4,352,232	4,375,596	4,403,352	4,417,479	4,409,616	4,451,816	4,452,672	4,420,823	4,392,146	4,402,456	4,395,201	4,400,425	4,406,151
2018	4,337,374	4,376,786	4,383,765	4,396,310	4,416,025	4,460,232	4,468,694	4,423,639	4,403,835	4,455,229	4,461,766	4,464,903	4,420,713
2019	4,424,320	4,458,579	4,476,400	4,483,925	4,501,769	4,550,242	4,571,622	4,551,885	4,542,001	4,579,283	4,577,163	4,583,334	4,525,044
2020	4,540,036	4,564,347	4,512,045	3,809,678	3,813,462	3,973,180	4,045,296	4,166,223	4,162,387	4,273,402	4,273,919	4,277,788	4,200,980
2021	4,246,784	4,273,207	4,302,547	4,313,226	4,318,637	4,347,711	4,380,978	4,355,495	4,329,991	4,378,735	4,393,884	4,412,317	4,337,793
2022	4,380,596	4,433,299	4,493,069	4,512,032	4,540,301	4,582,411	4,608,691	4,625,493	4,597,394	4,625,753	4,608,232	4,623,484	4,552,563
2023	4,581,555	4,603,069	4,630,838	4,628,778	4,615,062	4,649,621	4,642,970	4,617,863	4,586,525	4,608,565	4,618,632	4,605,191	4,615,722
2024	4,523,420	4,563,073	4,612,126	4,626,558	4,572,070	4,657,185	4,649,110	4,624,611	(p)4,580,289
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	339,676	345,495	329,810	280,110	296,356	299,956	327,747	310,602	288,073	276,069	274,529	262,492	302,576
2015	306,717	302,125	282,039	258,300	271,428	268,196	281,682	247,137	227,617	218,113	212,756	204,654	256,730
2016	234,157	241,169	238,864	219,041	215,685	227,649	246,829	227,859	217,761	206,770	191,228	192,428	221,620
2017	232,132	233,747	210,098	193,682	200,974	208,694	229,791	218,503	204,580	192,753	194,963	185,709	208,802
2018	220,012	226,666	209,452	179,555	173,985	198,561	208,637	183,982	161,824	150,249	141,864	154,103	184,074
2019	191,414	183,866	164,883	129,815	137,475	152,370	179,651	169,735	154,116	156,839	160,009	167,982	162,346
2020	204,845	203,955	234,145	642,578	702,390	675,678	708,134	620,403	325,968	300,323	315,313	315,134	437,406
2021	357,355	361,203	346,123	319,828	312,339	352,492	348,675	320,235	280,777	255,048	241,366	236,809	311,021
2022	265,729	242,496	213,490	178,631	171,052	178,772	179,863	159,553	139,765	151,833	158,893	163,721	183,650
2023	204,468	217,393	204,661	175,985	206,351	224,711	235,155	237,054	217,077	216,297	210,456	217,777	213,949
2024	246,107	244,178	230,848	198,314	214,206	233,036	267,737	263,158	(p)196,216
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2014	7.7	7.7	7.4	6.3	6.6	6.6	7.2	6.9	6.4	6.1	6.1	5.8	6.7
2015	6.8	6.7	6.3	5.8	6.0	5.9	6.2	5.5	5.1	4.9	4.8	4.6	5.7
2016	5.3	5.4	5.3	4.9	4.8	5.0	5.4	5.1	4.9	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.9
2017	5.1	5.1	4.6	4.2	4.4	4.5	4.9	4.7	4.5	4.2	4.2	4.0	4.5
2018	4.8	4.9	4.6	3.9	3.8	4.3	4.5	4.0	3.5	3.3	3.1	3.3	4.0
2019	4.1	4.0	3.6	2.8	3.0	3.2	3.8	3.6	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.5	3.5
2020	4.3	4.3	4.9	14.4	15.6	14.5	14.9	13.0	7.3	6.6	6.9	6.9	9.4
2021	7.8	7.8	7.4	6.9	6.7	7.5	7.4	6.8	6.1	5.5	5.2	5.1	6.7
2022	5.7	5.2	4.5	3.8	3.6	3.8	3.8	3.3	3.0	3.2	3.3	3.4	3.9
2023	4.3	4.5	4.2	3.7	4.3	4.6	4.8	4.9	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.5	4.4
2024	5.2	5.1	4.8	4.1	4.5	4.8	5.4	5.4	(p)4.1
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).