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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
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	4,652,771	4,661,369	4,668,964	4,680,821	4,679,443	4,698,261	4,689,232	4,688,530	4,671,240	4,668,565	4,664,712	4,674,910
2022	4,697,367	4,709,911	4,723,290	4,742,255	4,756,383	4,772,837	4,784,248	4,795,054	4,805,077	4,816,597	4,828,801	4,840,718
2023	4,852,074	4,862,743	4,871,773	4,878,412	4,882,307	4,884,148	4,885,306	4,885,787	4,885,370	4,884,539	4,884,646	4,885,869
2024	4,887,577	4,890,460	4,895,118	4,900,580	4,905,629	4,908,702	4,908,756	4,906,661	4,903,661	4,900,103	4,897,135	4,896,083
2025	4,896,874	4,898,132	4,898,440	4,897,988	4,897,944	4,899,596	4,903,658	4,909,106	4,915,086	(1)-	4,919,896	4,919,038
2026	4,918,046	4,912,328	4,906,727	4,903,423	4,909,153	4,908,203	(p)4,910,656
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,310,263	4,318,620	4,329,549	4,341,063	4,351,396	4,359,376	4,365,323	4,372,295	4,379,930	4,390,941	4,403,061	4,416,179
2022	4,452,878	4,487,500	4,518,518	4,547,735	4,575,022	4,601,191	4,625,256	4,648,026	4,647,071	4,648,058	4,651,268	4,656,276
2023	4,661,988	4,667,903	4,672,825	4,675,502	4,674,982	4,672,412	4,669,515	4,666,708	4,664,215	4,662,513	4,662,433	4,664,067
2024	4,666,903	4,670,463	4,674,073	4,677,203	4,679,875	4,681,207	4,680,124	4,677,402	4,673,790	4,669,184	4,663,984	4,659,143
2025	4,655,242	4,652,062	4,649,173	4,645,747	4,641,144	4,636,881	4,635,972	4,638,766	4,644,843	(1)-	4,655,110	4,655,408
2026	4,663,409	4,663,876	4,665,813	4,669,460	4,680,604	4,685,214	(p)4,694,394
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	342,508	342,749	339,415	339,758	328,047	338,885	323,909	316,235	291,310	277,624	261,651	258,731
2022	244,489	222,411	204,772	194,520	181,361	171,646	158,992	147,028	158,006	168,539	177,533	184,442
2023	190,086	194,840	198,948	202,910	207,325	211,736	215,791	219,079	221,155	222,026	222,213	221,802
2024	220,674	219,997	221,045	223,377	225,754	227,495	228,632	229,259	229,871	230,919	233,151	236,940
2025	241,632	246,070	249,267	252,241	256,800	262,715	267,686	270,340	270,243	(1)-	264,786	263,630
2026	254,637	248,452	240,914	233,963	228,549	222,989	(p)216,262
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	7.4	7.4	7.3	7.3	7.0	7.2	6.9	6.7	6.2	5.9	5.6	5.5
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	4.1	4.2	4.2	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.5
2024	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.7	4.8	4.8
2025	4.9	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.5	(1)-	5.4	5.4
2026	5.2	5.1	4.9	4.8	4.7	4.5	(p)4.4
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,625,574	4,662,958	4,675,545	4,659,411	4,651,004	4,728,783	4,754,952	4,702,953	4,632,825	4,660,886	4,662,769	4,676,560	4,674,518
2022	4,669,786	4,705,590	4,736,369	4,723,407	4,738,939	4,799,149	4,826,703	4,827,519	4,772,771	4,821,440	4,809,311	4,830,390	4,771,781
2023	4,825,197	4,869,158	4,882,660	4,854,302	4,863,870	4,924,678	4,933,434	4,914,908	4,849,981	4,877,156	4,883,431	4,872,637	4,879,285
2024	4,845,834	4,887,100	4,911,632	4,890,681	4,873,096	4,951,239	4,977,534	4,935,126	4,859,526	4,895,347	4,882,488	4,883,002	4,899,384
2025	4,865,122	4,892,551	4,905,949	4,900,864	4,873,350	4,937,516	4,956,807	4,924,658	4,886,509	(1)-	4,918,239	4,900,403	(2)4,905,633
2026	4,862,054	4,880,497	4,903,059	4,895,585	4,917,284	4,936,635	(p)4,971,485
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,263,512	4,298,172	4,325,702	4,335,750	4,336,767	4,373,900	4,404,129	4,379,831	4,350,570	4,404,686	4,421,925	4,438,821	4,361,147
2022	4,404,765	4,464,527	4,523,042	4,543,631	4,567,724	4,618,650	4,644,263	4,663,102	4,631,193	4,666,749	4,649,141	4,663,310	4,586,675
2023	4,619,874	4,652,575	4,678,868	4,678,107	4,658,785	4,700,111	4,698,675	4,677,497	4,637,147	4,666,673	4,683,769	4,667,466	4,668,296
2024	4,614,012	4,648,263	4,684,110	4,689,863	4,660,632	4,714,626	4,710,702	4,684,118	4,649,626	4,680,529	4,662,926	4,665,660	4,672,089
2025	4,614,510	4,628,529	4,649,170	4,664,511	4,629,767	4,672,919	4,663,647	4,637,407	4,606,191	(1)-	4,687,020	4,679,818	(2)4,648,499
2026	4,626,218	4,620,332	4,670,702	4,697,303	4,711,332	4,719,955	(p)4,741,652
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	362,062	364,786	349,843	323,661	314,237	354,883	350,823	323,122	282,255	256,200	240,844	237,739	313,371
2022	265,021	241,063	213,327	179,776	171,215	180,499	182,440	164,417	141,578	154,691	160,170	167,080	185,106
2023	205,323	216,583	203,792	176,195	205,085	224,567	234,759	237,411	212,834	210,483	199,662	205,171	210,989
2024	231,822	238,837	227,522	200,818	212,464	236,613	266,832	251,008	209,900	214,818	219,562	217,342	227,295
2025	250,612	264,022	256,779	236,353	243,583	264,597	293,160	287,251	280,318	(1)-	231,219	220,585	(2)257,134
2026	235,836	260,165	232,357	198,282	205,952	216,680	(p)229,833
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	3.8	3.8	3.4	3.0	3.2	3.3	3.5	3.9
2023	4.3	4.4	4.2	3.6	4.2	4.6	4.8	4.8	4.4	4.3	4.1	4.2	4.3
2024	4.8	4.9	4.6	4.1	4.4	4.8	5.4	5.1	4.3	4.4	4.5	4.5	4.6
2025	5.2	5.4	5.2	4.8	5.0	5.4	5.9	5.8	5.7	(1)-	4.7	4.5	(2)5.2
2026	4.9	5.3	4.7	4.1	4.2	4.4	(p)4.6
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).