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BLS Open Data · April 2026

Georgia Unemployment Rate by County

Statewide rate: 3.5% (April 2026)

Unemployment Rate in Georgia and Neighbouring States

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Unemployment Rate by County

Haralson County, Georgia: $2.6Bleckley County, Georgia: $2.7Sumter County, Georgia: $3.9Meriwether County, Georgia: $3.4Douglas County, Georgia: $3.1Coweta County, Georgia: $2.5Clarke County, Georgia: $2.4Bartow County, Georgia: $2.7Decatur County, Georgia: $2.9Jones County, Georgia: $2.6Tift County, Georgia: $2.5Morgan County, Georgia: $2.2Barrow County, Georgia: $2.3Calhoun County, Georgia: $2.6Madison County, Georgia: $2.5Dooly County, Georgia: $3.6McDuffie County, Georgia: $3.7Grady County, Georgia: $2.5Fannin County, Georgia: $2.6Bibb County, Georgia: $3.8Pulaski County, Georgia: $3Butts County, Georgia: $3.1Lamar County, Georgia: $3.5Evans County, Georgia: $2.7Atkinson County, Georgia: $3.1Miller County, Georgia: $2.3Crisp County, Georgia: $3.1Coffee County, Georgia: $3.2Ben Hill County, Georgia: $3.1Chattahoochee County, Georgia: $6.8Heard County, Georgia: $2.9Newton County, Georgia: $3.4DeKalb County, Georgia: $3White County, Georgia: $2.3Floyd County, Georgia: $2.7Murray County, Georgia: $3.1Walker County, Georgia: $2.7Liberty County, Georgia: $3.4Jeff Davis County, Georgia: $3.4Emanuel County, Georgia: $3.1Glynn County, Georgia: $2.5Charlton County, Georgia: $2.8Appling County, Georgia: $2.9Polk County, Georgia: $2.7Rockdale County, Georgia: $3.3Cherokee County, Georgia: $2.4Fulton County, Georgia: $3Glascock County, Georgia: $2.7Clayton County, Georgia: $3.7Greene County, Georgia: $3.1Gilmer County, Georgia: $2.5Ware County, Georgia: $3.4Hart County, Georgia: $2.7Pike County, Georgia: $2.5Pickens County, Georgia: $2.4Hancock County, Georgia: $4.8Webster County, Georgia: $3.3Echols County, Georgia: $2.2Whitfield County, Georgia: $3.1Baldwin County, Georgia: $2.9Bryan County, Georgia: $2.2Thomas County, Georgia: $2.8Early County, Georgia: $3.8Clinch County, Georgia: $3.2Macon County, Georgia: $4.3Baker County, Georgia: $4Dade County, Georgia: $2.6Dougherty County, Georgia: $4.1Mitchell County, Georgia: $3.3Seminole County, Georgia: $3.8Schley County, Georgia: $2.8Henry County, Georgia: $3.3Taylor County, Georgia: $3.3Burke County, Georgia: $3.9Union County, Georgia: $3.1Upson County, Georgia: $2.9Walton County, Georgia: $2.7Washington County, Georgia: $3.1Wayne County, Georgia: $2.6Berrien County, Georgia: $2.6Wheeler County, Georgia: $2.4Columbia County, Georgia: $2.6Dodge County, Georgia: $2.7Gwinnett County, Georgia: $2.6Dawson County, Georgia: $2.4Johnson County, Georgia: $3Jefferson County, Georgia: $3.3Effingham County, Georgia: $2.3Lanier County, Georgia: $3Franklin County, Georgia: $2.9Telfair County, Georgia: $4.5Elbert County, Georgia: $2.9Lowndes County, Georgia: $3.1Talbot County, Georgia: $3.9Hall County, Georgia: $2.3Houston County, Georgia: $2.4Pierce County, Georgia: $3.1Irwin County, Georgia: $2.8Lincoln County, Georgia: $3.6Long County, Georgia: $2.8Monroe County, Georgia: $2.7Oconee County, Georgia: $2.1Peach County, Georgia: $3.3Quitman County, Georgia: $6.4Randolph County, Georgia: $3.1Stewart County, Georgia: $4.9Jasper County, Georgia: $2.8Forsyth County, Georgia: $2.2Taliaferro County, Georgia: $2.8Toombs County, Georgia: $3.3Troup County, Georgia: $2.4Twiggs County, Georgia: $3.7Paulding County, Georgia: $2.7Fayette County, Georgia: $2.7Jackson County, Georgia: $2.5Turner County, Georgia: $3.4Bulloch County, Georgia: $2.6Lumpkin County, Georgia: $2.5Spalding County, Georgia: $3.3Towns County, Georgia: $2.9Wilkinson County, Georgia: $3.3Lee County, Georgia: $2.3Tattnall County, Georgia: $2.8Marion County, Georgia: $2.9Camden County, Georgia: $2.7Carroll County, Georgia: $2.6Gordon County, Georgia: $2.5Rabun County, Georgia: $2.8Laurens County, Georgia: $3.1Screven County, Georgia: $3Warren County, Georgia: $4Candler County, Georgia: $2.5Colquitt County, Georgia: $2.4Habersham County, Georgia: $2.3Jenkins County, Georgia: $2.3Bacon County, Georgia: $2.8McIntosh County, Georgia: $3.2Richmond County, Georgia: $3.8Wilkes County, Georgia: $3.4Crawford County, Georgia: $2.8Catoosa County, Georgia: $2.5Cobb County, Georgia: $2.6Chattooga County, Georgia: $3.7Cook County, Georgia: $2.7Montgomery County, Georgia: $3.7Brooks County, Georgia: $3Chatham County, Georgia: $2.4Clay County, Georgia: $5.4Muscogee County, Georgia: $3.5Worth County, Georgia: $3Brantley County, Georgia: $2.5Putnam County, Georgia: $3.1Stephens County, Georgia: $3.5Banks County, Georgia: $2.5Harris County, Georgia: $2.7Terrell County, Georgia: $4.3Oglethorpe County, Georgia: $2.3Wilcox County, Georgia: $2.5Treutlen County, Georgia: $3.3

How Georgia Compares to Other States

Average county unemployment rate ranked against all states with BLS data.

Lower unemployment than 83% of states · 10th of 52

Lowest: North Dakota(2.4%)
Highest: Alaska(7.1%)
#StateValue
1South Dakota1.9%
2Iowa2.4%
3North Dakota2.4%
… 6 more …
10Georgia(you are here)3.0%
… 39 more …
50California6.0%
51Puerto Rico6.5%
52Alaska7.1%

Highest & Lowest Unemployment Rate by County

#CountyValue
1Chattahoochee County6.8%
2Quitman County6.4%
3Clay County5.4%
157Forsyth County2.2%
158Morgan County2.2%
159Oconee County2.1%

Counties in Georgia (159)

CountyUnemployment Rate
Appling County, Georgia2.9%
Atkinson County, Georgia3.1%
Bacon County, Georgia2.8%
Baker County, Georgia4%
Baldwin County, Georgia2.9%
Banks County, Georgia2.5%
Barrow County, Georgia2.3%
Bartow County, Georgia2.7%
Ben Hill County, Georgia3.1%
Berrien County, Georgia2.6%
Bibb County, Georgia3.8%
Bleckley County, Georgia2.7%
Brantley County, Georgia2.5%
Brooks County, Georgia3%
Bryan County, Georgia2.2%
Bulloch County, Georgia2.6%
Burke County, Georgia3.9%
Butts County, Georgia3.1%
Calhoun County, Georgia2.6%
Camden County, Georgia2.7%
Candler County, Georgia2.5%
Carroll County, Georgia2.6%
Catoosa County, Georgia2.5%
Charlton County, Georgia2.8%
Chatham County, Georgia2.4%
Chattahoochee County, Georgia6.8%
Chattooga County, Georgia3.7%
Cherokee County, Georgia2.4%
Clarke County, Georgia2.4%
Clay County, Georgia5.4%
Clayton County, Georgia3.7%
Clinch County, Georgia3.2%
Cobb County, Georgia2.6%
Coffee County, Georgia3.2%
Colquitt County, Georgia2.4%
Columbia County, Georgia2.6%
Cook County, Georgia2.7%
Coweta County, Georgia2.5%
Crawford County, Georgia2.8%
Crisp County, Georgia3.1%
Dade County, Georgia2.6%
Dawson County, Georgia2.4%
Decatur County, Georgia2.9%
DeKalb County, Georgia3%
Dodge County, Georgia2.7%
Dooly County, Georgia3.6%
Dougherty County, Georgia4.1%
Douglas County, Georgia3.1%
Early County, Georgia3.8%
Echols County, Georgia2.2%
Effingham County, Georgia2.3%
Elbert County, Georgia2.9%
Emanuel County, Georgia3.1%
Evans County, Georgia2.7%
Fannin County, Georgia2.6%
Fayette County, Georgia2.7%
Floyd County, Georgia2.7%
Forsyth County, Georgia2.2%
Franklin County, Georgia2.9%
Fulton County, Georgia3%
Gilmer County, Georgia2.5%
Glascock County, Georgia2.7%
Glynn County, Georgia2.5%
Gordon County, Georgia2.5%
Grady County, Georgia2.5%
Greene County, Georgia3.1%
Gwinnett County, Georgia2.6%
Habersham County, Georgia2.3%
Hall County, Georgia2.3%
Hancock County, Georgia4.8%
Haralson County, Georgia2.6%
Harris County, Georgia2.7%
Hart County, Georgia2.7%
Heard County, Georgia2.9%
Henry County, Georgia3.3%
Houston County, Georgia2.4%
Irwin County, Georgia2.8%
Jackson County, Georgia2.5%
Jasper County, Georgia2.8%
Jeff Davis County, Georgia3.4%
Jefferson County, Georgia3.3%
Jenkins County, Georgia2.3%
Johnson County, Georgia3%
Jones County, Georgia2.6%
Lamar County, Georgia3.5%
Lanier County, Georgia3%
Laurens County, Georgia3.1%
Lee County, Georgia2.3%
Liberty County, Georgia3.4%
Lincoln County, Georgia3.6%
Long County, Georgia2.8%
Lowndes County, Georgia3.1%
Lumpkin County, Georgia2.5%
Macon County, Georgia4.3%
Madison County, Georgia2.5%
Marion County, Georgia2.9%
McDuffie County, Georgia3.7%
McIntosh County, Georgia3.2%
Meriwether County, Georgia3.4%
Miller County, Georgia2.3%
Mitchell County, Georgia3.3%
Monroe County, Georgia2.7%
Montgomery County, Georgia3.7%
Morgan County, Georgia2.2%
Murray County, Georgia3.1%
Muscogee County, Georgia3.5%
Newton County, Georgia3.4%
Oconee County, Georgia2.1%
Oglethorpe County, Georgia2.3%
Paulding County, Georgia2.7%
Peach County, Georgia3.3%
Pickens County, Georgia2.4%
Pierce County, Georgia3.1%
Pike County, Georgia2.5%
Polk County, Georgia2.7%
Pulaski County, Georgia3%
Putnam County, Georgia3.1%
Quitman County, Georgia6.4%
Rabun County, Georgia2.8%
Randolph County, Georgia3.1%
Richmond County, Georgia3.8%
Rockdale County, Georgia3.3%
Schley County, Georgia2.8%
Screven County, Georgia3%
Seminole County, Georgia3.8%
Spalding County, Georgia3.3%
Stephens County, Georgia3.5%
Stewart County, Georgia4.9%
Sumter County, Georgia3.9%
Talbot County, Georgia3.9%
Taliaferro County, Georgia2.8%
Tattnall County, Georgia2.8%
Taylor County, Georgia3.3%
Telfair County, Georgia4.5%
Terrell County, Georgia4.3%
Thomas County, Georgia2.8%
Tift County, Georgia2.5%
Toombs County, Georgia3.3%
Towns County, Georgia2.9%
Treutlen County, Georgia3.3%
Troup County, Georgia2.4%
Turner County, Georgia3.4%
Twiggs County, Georgia3.7%
Union County, Georgia3.1%
Upson County, Georgia2.9%
Walker County, Georgia2.7%
Walton County, Georgia2.7%
Ware County, Georgia3.4%
Warren County, Georgia4%
Washington County, Georgia3.1%
Wayne County, Georgia2.6%
Webster County, Georgia3.3%
Wheeler County, Georgia2.4%
White County, Georgia2.3%
Whitfield County, Georgia3.1%
Wilcox County, Georgia2.5%
Wilkes County, Georgia3.4%
Wilkinson County, Georgia3.3%
Worth County, Georgia3%

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Data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (LAUS), public domain. Reference month: April 2026.