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Delaware: Nonfarm employment and labor force data, not seasonally adjusted

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Employment data from the Current Employment Statistics program
(not seasonally adjusted data, all employees, in thousands)
Sector	Delaware
Sector	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Total Nonfarm
2025	484.9	487.0	490.8	496.5	500.6	501.9	500.8	498.3	495.4	494.1	494.7	495.4	495.0
2026	486.1	486.8	489.5	494.6	500.3	502.7	(p)500.6
Mining, Logging, & Construction
2025	23.4	23.6	24.1	24.7	24.8	25.2	25.0	25.0	24.9	24.6	24.4	24.6	24.5
2026	24.2	23.0	24.4	25.1	24.9	25.4	(p)25.3
Manufacturing
2025	26.5	26.5	26.6	26.8	26.9	27.1	27.2	27.0	26.6	26.3	26.3	26.4	26.7
2026	26.1	26.1	25.9	25.8	25.8	26.0	(p)25.9
Trade, Transportation, & Utilities
2025	90.1	89.7	89.5	89.7	90.1	90.7	90.1	89.4	89.3	89.9	91.9	92.9	90.3
2026	90.2	88.7	88.6	89.1	89.6	90.2	(p)89.1
Information
2025	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.6	3.5	3.5	3.5	3.4	3.5	3.4	3.4	3.5
2026	3.4	3.3	3.3	3.4	3.4	3.3	(p)3.3
Financial Activities
2025	49.5	49.6	49.5	49.5	49.3	49.5	49.7	49.4	48.9	48.5	48.8	49.4	49.3
2026	48.8	49.0	49.2	48.8	49.0	49.5	(p)49.4
Professional & Business Services
2025	63.0	63.5	63.9	65.3	65.3	65.4	65.8	65.3	65.2	65.3	65.1	64.5	64.8
2026	63.5	63.5	64.5	66.2	67.0	67.0	(p)66.9
Educational & Health Services
2025	90.7	91.4	91.5	92.2	93.0	92.0	91.6	92.3	91.7	92.8	93.0	93.5	92.1
2026	92.9	94.0	93.3	93.9	94.5	93.6	(p)93.7
Leisure & Hospitality
2025	48.0	48.2	49.5	51.7	55.0	57.5	58.6	58.1	53.7	51.0	49.0	48.2	52.4
2026	46.3	46.7	47.5	49.9	53.1	57.1	(p)57.7
Other Services
2025	19.3	19.3	19.5	19.7	19.6	19.7	19.7	19.6	19.4	19.3	19.6	19.7	19.5
2026	19.7	19.9	19.9	19.8	19.9	20.0	(p)20.3
Government
2025	70.9	71.7	73.2	73.4	73.0	71.3	69.6	68.7	72.3	72.9	73.2	72.8	71.9
2026	71.0	72.6	72.9	72.6	73.1	70.6	(p)69.0
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Labor Force data from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics Program
(not seasonally adjusted data)
	Delaware
	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Annual Avg
Labor Force
2025	512,809	512,127	516,230	517,130	513,066	518,279	519,818	518,556	513,986	(1)-	516,022	515,941	(2)515,815
2026	509,585	507,387	511,362	509,634	505,229	505,808	(p)506,848
Employment
2025	490,030	488,769	493,076	495,191	491,342	493,169	493,343	490,716	488,085	(1)-	487,884	489,088	(2)490,972
2026	480,767	479,428	485,234	485,135	484,156	481,021	(p)482,494
Unemployment
2025	22,779	23,358	23,154	21,939	21,724	25,110	26,475	27,840	25,901	(1)-	28,138	26,853	(2)24,843
2026	28,818	27,959	26,128	24,499	21,073	24,787	(p)24,354
Unemployment Rate
2025	4.4	4.6	4.5	4.2	4.2	4.8	5.1	5.4	5.0	(1)-	5.5	5.2	(2)4.8
2026	5.7	5.5	5.1	4.8	4.2	4.9	(p)4.8
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