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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	4,599,138	4,599,819	4,600,965	4,601,645	4,600,754	4,597,878	4,594,206	4,591,020	4,589,208	4,590,617	4,595,758	4,602,656
2016	4,608,942	4,613,440	4,615,485	4,615,927	4,616,116	4,615,959	4,615,331	4,614,705	4,614,140	4,612,396	4,609,536	4,607,400
2017	4,607,318	4,609,280	4,612,471	4,616,364	4,619,842	4,622,054	4,622,218	4,619,239	4,613,608	4,606,841	4,599,881	4,593,657
2018	4,590,359	4,592,098	4,598,161	4,605,163	4,610,201	4,612,096	4,611,059	4,609,237	4,608,780	4,611,131	4,616,532	4,623,928
2019	4,631,274	4,637,559	4,643,984	4,652,828	4,665,140	4,680,591	4,697,847	4,715,055	4,731,072	4,745,300	4,757,345	4,764,786
2020	4,765,234	4,757,142	4,742,018	4,478,993	4,571,265	4,628,508	4,732,543	4,754,575	4,520,716	4,552,900	4,591,781	4,616,267
2021	4,629,449	4,638,396	4,646,101	4,658,977	4,659,268	4,678,631	4,670,544	4,670,241	4,653,023	4,649,751	4,645,996	4,654,876
2022	4,678,310	4,692,010	4,705,793	4,725,553	4,740,787	4,757,657	4,769,694	4,781,164	4,790,849	4,802,020	4,813,930	4,825,704
2023	4,837,130	4,848,088	4,857,618	4,864,978	4,869,734	4,872,477	4,874,377	4,875,311	4,875,031	4,873,950	4,873,615	4,874,574
2024	4,876,755	4,881,124	4,887,906	4,895,749	4,903,227	4,908,736	4,910,706	4,909,638	4,907,142	4,904,466	4,903,351	4,903,331
2025	4,898,499	4,897,945	4,897,266	4,899,805	4,895,267	4,892,430	(p)4,890,478
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	4,307,181	4,310,233	4,314,341	4,319,441	4,324,741	4,329,561	4,334,275	4,339,449	4,345,839	4,354,418	4,364,483	4,373,885
2016	4,380,800	4,384,641	4,385,513	4,384,603	4,383,590	4,383,136	4,383,494	4,384,607	4,385,808	4,386,458	4,387,598	4,390,595
2017	4,395,510	4,401,732	4,407,830	4,412,814	4,415,756	4,415,854	4,412,977	4,407,512	4,400,750	4,394,376	4,388,931	4,385,709
2018	4,386,416	4,392,094	4,401,537	4,411,555	4,419,465	4,424,839	4,428,154	4,430,703	4,433,869	4,439,032	4,446,827	4,456,667
2019	4,467,242	4,478,287	4,490,012	4,503,205	4,517,290	4,530,891	4,542,822	4,552,738	4,561,908	4,569,881	4,576,022	4,578,023
2020	4,573,720	4,562,044	4,546,335	3,808,817	3,865,414	3,957,596	4,048,735	4,121,175	4,185,335	4,229,192	4,260,768	4,279,403
2021	4,290,143	4,298,598	4,309,563	4,321,358	4,332,103	4,340,531	4,346,918	4,354,081	4,361,670	4,372,500	4,384,304	4,396,956
2022	4,434,623	4,470,475	4,502,609	4,532,963	4,561,132	4,587,926	4,612,549	4,636,045	4,634,875	4,635,850	4,639,185	4,644,376
2023	4,650,333	4,656,588	4,662,043	4,665,511	4,665,885	4,664,110	4,661,785	4,659,391	4,657,225	4,655,670	4,655,638	4,657,392
2024	4,660,831	4,665,741	4,671,305	4,676,713	4,681,620	4,684,975	4,685,420	4,683,712	4,681,283	4,678,938	4,678,009	4,678,030
2025	4,673,290	4,672,171	4,668,218	4,665,422	4,659,310	4,653,524	(p)4,648,732
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	291,957	289,586	286,624	282,204	276,013	268,317	259,931	251,571	243,369	236,199	231,275	228,771
2016	228,142	228,799	229,972	231,324	232,526	232,823	231,837	230,098	228,332	225,938	221,938	216,805
2017	211,808	207,548	204,641	203,550	204,086	206,200	209,241	211,727	212,858	212,465	210,950	207,948
2018	203,943	200,004	196,624	193,608	190,736	187,257	182,905	178,534	174,911	172,099	169,705	167,261
2019	164,032	159,272	153,972	149,623	147,850	149,700	155,025	162,317	169,164	175,419	181,323	186,763
2020	191,514	195,098	195,683	670,176	705,851	670,912	683,808	633,400	335,381	323,708	331,013	336,864
2021	339,306	339,798	336,538	337,619	327,165	338,100	323,626	316,160	291,353	277,251	261,692	257,920
2022	243,687	221,535	203,184	192,590	179,655	169,731	157,145	145,119	155,974	166,170	174,745	181,328
2023	186,797	191,500	195,575	199,467	203,849	208,367	212,592	215,920	217,806	218,280	217,977	217,182
2024	215,924	215,383	216,601	219,036	221,607	223,761	225,286	225,926	225,859	225,528	225,342	225,301
2025	225,209	225,774	229,048	234,383	235,957	238,906	(p)241,746
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

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

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	4,568,362	4,582,442	4,586,396	4,593,559	4,615,402	4,648,272	4,661,328	4,613,691	4,538,356	4,583,314	4,583,318	4,587,817	4,596,855
2016	4,564,995	4,606,207	4,629,073	4,605,275	4,603,864	4,657,613	4,684,104	4,634,803	4,587,701	4,603,549	4,585,680	4,591,644	4,612,876
2017	4,578,118	4,604,284	4,610,100	4,611,386	4,607,636	4,660,357	4,681,724	4,641,194	4,592,329	4,594,878	4,584,541	4,577,897	4,612,037
2018	4,558,443	4,605,121	4,595,266	4,578,741	4,589,961	4,666,826	4,683,277	4,611,979	4,564,339	4,606,627	4,605,239	4,623,414	4,607,436
2019	4,617,778	4,646,118	4,645,047	4,618,400	4,641,166	4,709,967	4,759,041	4,730,719	4,701,189	4,744,133	4,744,867	4,760,044	4,693,206
2020	4,751,285	4,776,932	4,756,332	4,459,348	4,517,302	4,655,600	4,757,477	4,791,100	4,488,599	4,577,858	4,593,980	4,598,581	4,643,700
2021	4,605,214	4,638,565	4,652,782	4,638,120	4,632,155	4,708,353	4,736,053	4,685,168	4,614,424	4,640,557	4,641,772	4,657,757	4,654,243
2022	4,653,132	4,686,645	4,719,397	4,707,710	4,725,266	4,783,477	4,810,793	4,812,118	4,757,856	4,804,938	4,793,494	4,817,199	4,756,002
2023	4,814,166	4,853,424	4,868,991	4,841,566	4,852,943	4,911,207	4,920,643	4,903,103	4,840,043	4,864,163	4,871,100	4,864,005	4,867,113
2024	4,840,049	4,877,205	4,903,691	4,885,809	4,873,081	4,951,078	4,974,752	4,933,691	4,867,052	4,898,713	4,884,427	4,886,545	4,898,008
2025	4,850,144	4,899,840	4,909,250	4,894,932	4,850,466	4,922,088	(p)4,941,777
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	4,255,403	4,275,342	4,297,661	4,327,449	4,335,624	4,371,234	4,368,431	4,358,637	4,306,597	4,362,839	4,367,277	4,382,165	4,334,055
2016	4,329,824	4,363,710	4,384,291	4,379,442	4,381,242	4,420,656	4,424,691	4,396,004	4,363,219	4,391,879	4,390,773	4,394,026	4,384,980
2017	4,349,196	4,373,729	4,402,971	4,421,899	4,407,172	4,450,044	4,449,197	4,417,556	4,386,761	4,400,991	4,390,757	4,393,570	4,403,654
2018	4,338,342	4,380,344	4,386,341	4,400,008	4,416,492	4,465,669	4,471,963	4,425,758	4,402,282	4,456,901	4,464,012	4,468,078	4,423,016
2019	4,425,729	4,462,146	4,480,552	4,488,996	4,503,826	4,557,620	4,577,515	4,558,742	4,545,990	4,586,021	4,583,342	4,589,409	4,529,991
2020	4,544,443	4,571,873	4,520,249	3,817,061	3,812,152	3,977,817	4,047,033	4,168,222	4,161,508	4,275,702	4,276,039	4,279,507	4,204,301
2021	4,245,951	4,276,285	4,305,960	4,317,120	4,318,189	4,354,240	4,385,152	4,362,231	4,332,925	4,385,583	4,400,794	4,420,472	4,342,075
2022	4,388,383	4,445,920	4,507,801	4,529,795	4,554,644	4,605,173	4,630,227	4,651,263	4,618,871	4,653,702	4,635,583	4,653,184	4,572,879
2023	4,611,229	4,638,799	4,668,242	4,668,188	4,650,296	4,690,949	4,689,308	4,670,830	4,631,988	4,659,286	4,675,037	4,663,193	4,659,779
2024	4,611,216	4,640,594	4,679,823	4,689,080	4,663,505	4,718,936	4,712,171	4,689,209	4,662,860	4,692,144	4,672,989	4,680,237	4,676,064
2025	4,610,503	4,652,573	4,663,654	4,666,772	4,625,125	4,666,823	(p)4,665,498
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	312,959	307,100	288,735	266,110	279,778	277,038	292,897	255,054	231,759	220,475	216,041	205,652	262,800
2016	235,171	242,497	244,782	225,833	222,622	236,957	259,413	238,799	224,482	211,670	194,907	197,618	227,896
2017	228,922	230,555	207,129	189,487	200,464	210,313	232,527	223,638	205,568	193,887	193,784	184,327	208,383
2018	220,101	224,777	208,925	178,733	173,469	201,157	211,314	186,221	162,057	149,726	141,227	155,336	184,420
2019	192,049	183,972	164,495	129,404	137,340	152,347	181,526	171,977	155,199	158,112	161,525	170,635	163,215
2020	206,842	205,059	236,083	642,287	705,150	677,783	710,444	622,878	327,091	302,156	317,941	319,074	439,399
2021	359,263	362,280	346,822	321,000	313,966	354,113	350,901	322,937	281,499	254,974	240,978	237,285	312,168
2022	264,749	240,725	211,596	177,915	170,622	178,304	180,566	160,855	138,985	151,236	157,911	164,015	183,123
2023	202,937	214,625	200,749	173,378	202,647	220,258	231,335	232,273	208,055	204,877	196,063	200,812	207,334
2024	228,833	236,611	223,868	196,729	209,576	232,142	262,581	244,482	204,192	206,569	211,438	206,308	221,944
2025	239,641	247,267	245,596	228,160	225,341	255,265	(p)276,279
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	6.9	6.7	6.3	5.8	6.1	6.0	6.3	5.5	5.1	4.8	4.7	4.5	5.7
2016	5.2	5.3	5.3	4.9	4.8	5.1	5.5	5.2	4.9	4.6	4.3	4.3	4.9
2017	5.0	5.0	4.5	4.1	4.4	4.5	5.0	4.8	4.5	4.2	4.2	4.0	4.5
2018	4.8	4.9	4.5	3.9	3.8	4.3	4.5	4.0	3.6	3.3	3.1	3.4	4.0
2019	4.2	4.0	3.5	2.8	3.0	3.2	3.8	3.6	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.6	3.5
2020	4.4	4.3	5.0	14.4	15.6	14.6	14.9	13.0	7.3	6.6	6.9	6.9	9.5
2021	7.8	7.8	7.5	6.9	6.8	7.5	7.4	6.9	6.1	5.5	5.2	5.1	6.7
2022	5.7	5.1	4.5	3.8	3.6	3.7	3.8	3.3	2.9	3.1	3.3	3.4	3.9
2023	4.2	4.4	4.1	3.6	4.2	4.5	4.7	4.7	4.3	4.2	4.0	4.1	4.3
2024	4.7	4.9	4.6	4.0	4.3	4.7	5.3	5.0	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.2	4.5
2025	4.9	5.0	5.0	4.7	4.6	5.2	(p)5.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).