A-36. Unemployed persons by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, marital status, and duration of unemployment

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A-36. Unemployed persons by age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, marital status, and duration of unemployment [Numbers in thousands]
Age, sex, race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and marital status	April 2019
	Unemployed						Weeks of unemployment
	Total	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	15 weeks and over			Average (mean) duration	Median duration
	Total	Less than 5 weeks	5 to 14 weeks	Total	15 to 26 weeks	27 weeks and over	Average (mean) duration	Median duration
AGE AND SEX
Total, 16 years and over	5,387	1,585	1,572	2,231	997	1,234	24.2	11.2
16 to 19 years	628	233	242	154	108	46	11.0	7.5
20 to 24 years	871	301	252	319	153	166	17.9	9.3
25 to 34 years	1,335	381	384	570	239	331	27.7	12.0
35 to 44 years	845	229	241	376	159	217	28.7	11.4
45 to 54 years	790	144	245	401	170	231	28.1	14.8
55 to 64 years	614	181	163	270	88	182	27.8	12.3
65 years and over	303	117	44	141	80	62	24.1	12.5

Men, 16 years and over	3,064	859	840	1,366	612	753	25.4	12.3
16 to 19 years	361	131	120	109	76	33	12.5	8.8
20 to 24 years	538	156	151	231	108	123	20.8	11.1
25 to 34 years	702	198	204	300	136	165	29.9	12.3
35 to 44 years	472	129	120	223	86	137	27.0	12.7
45 to 54 years	477	81	153	243	104	139	28.2	14.9
55 to 64 years	343	109	67	168	56	112	29.6	13.8
65 years and over	172	55	25	92	47	45	27.7	15.8

Women, 16 years and over	2,323	726	732	865	385	480	22.6	10.1
16 to 19 years	268	102	122	44	31	13	9.1	6.2
20 to 24 years	333	144	101	88	45	43	13.2	7.3
25 to 34 years	633	183	180	270	104	166	25.2	11.5
35 to 44 years	374	100	121	153	73	80	30.9	10.4
45 to 54 years	313	63	92	158	67	91	27.9	14.7
55 to 64 years	271	72	96	103	33	70	25.5	11.6
65 years and over	131	62	20	50	33	17	19.4	7.6

RACE AND HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY
White, 16 years and over	3,591	1,117	1,015	1,459	689	770	22.5	10.6
Men	2,103	620	566	917	418	499	24.2	11.7
Women	1,488	497	448	543	271	271	20.2	9.7
Black or African American, 16 years and over	1,275	304	399	572	200	372	29.6	13.0
Men	690	153	205	332	133	199	30.8	13.9
Women	586	151	194	240	66	173	28.2	12.2
Asian, 16 years and over	212	60	78	75	41	33	20.4	9.8
Men	105	31	36	39	22	17	19.3	10.1
Women	107	29	42	36	20	16	21.4	9.5
Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, 16 years and over	1,059	322	307	430	217	213	22.7	10.7
Men	612	181	173	258	124	135	23.0	11.2
Women	447	141	135	172	93	79	22.2	10.2

MARITAL STATUS
Men, 16 years and over
Married, spouse present(1)	779	226	226	328	158	170	21.1	11.2
Widowed, divorced, or separated(2)	409	110	109	190	66	125	29.1	13.2
Never married	1,876	523	505	847	389	459	26.4	12.6
Women, 16 years and over
Married, spouse present(1)	597	198	181	218	105	113	20.7	9.5
Widowed, divorced, or separated(2)	522	143	158	222	108	114	25.0	12.3
Never married	1,204	385	393	426	172	254	22.5	9.7
Footnotes (1) Refers to persons in opposite-sex married couples only. (2) Separated includes persons who are married, spouse absent.
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals because data are not presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data.

Last Modified Date: May 03, 2019

Labor Force Statistics from the Current Population Survey

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