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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	(p)486.2
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	(p)24.2
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	(p)26.1
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	(p)90.5
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	(p)3.4
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	(p)48.8
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	(p)63.5
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	(p)93.2
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	(p)46.2
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	(p)19.7
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	(p)70.6
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	(r)512,809	(r)512,127	(r)516,230	(r)517,130	(r)513,066	(r)518,279	(r)519,818	(r)518,556	(r)513,986	(1)-	(r)516,022	(r)515,941	(2)(r)515,815
2026	(p)509,562
Employment
2025	(r)490,030	(r)488,769	(r)493,076	(r)495,191	(r)491,342	(r)493,169	(r)493,343	(r)490,716	(r)488,085	(1)-	(r)487,884	(r)489,088	(2)(r)490,972
2026	(p)480,777
Unemployment
2025	(r)22,779	(r)23,358	(r)23,154	(r)21,939	(r)21,724	(r)25,110	(r)26,475	(r)27,840	(r)25,901	(1)-	(r)28,138	(r)26,853	(2)(r)24,843
2026	(p)28,785
Unemployment Rate
2025	(r)4.4	(r)4.6	(r)4.5	(r)4.2	(r)4.2	(r)4.8	(r)5.1	(r)5.4	(r)5.0	(1)-	(r)5.5	(r)5.2	(2)(r)4.8
2026	(p)5.6
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 (r) Revised