Iowa Unemployment Rates by County

October 2016
Lyon
2.0

Osceola
2.9

Sioux
1.9

Dickinson
3.5

O'Brien
2.5

Plymouth
2.7

Clay
3.6

Cherokee
3.4

Buena
Vista
3.2

Ida
2.3

Sac
2.7

Woodbury
3.4

Monona
3.7

Crawford
4.5

Harrison
3.1

Emmet
4.0

Shelby
2.6

Winnebago
3.7

Worth
3.2

Mitchell
2.6

Hancock
2.8

Cerro
Gordo
3.5

Floyd
3.3

Kossuth
2.4

Palo Alto
3.3

Humboldt
Pocahontas
2.5
2.8

Webster
3.6

Calhoun
3.8

Carroll
2.6

Wright
3.7

Greene
2.5

Audubon Guthrie
2.8
3.2

Franklin
3.2

Hamilton
3.5

Boone
2.6

Dallas
2.7

Polk
3.4

Bremer
3.6

Black
Hawk
4.4

Grundy
3.3

Jasper
3.4

Fayette
3.9

Clayton
3.8

Buchanan Delaware
3.4
3.7

Linn
3.5

Benton
3.3

Tama
3.7

Marshall
4.2

Chickasaw
4.0

Butler
4.0

Hardin
3.6

Story
2.2

Howard
Winneshiek
3.0
Allamakee
2.7
4.3

Dubuque
3.1

Jones
3.6

Jackson
3.6
Clinton
4.9

Poweshiek
3.0

Iowa
2.7

Johnson
2.6

Cedar
2.8

Scott
4.6

Muscatine
3.8
Pottawattamie
3.1

Mills
3.3

U.S. = 4.9%
Iowa = 4.1%
NOTE:

Fremont
3.3

Cass
2.8

Adair
2.7

Montgomery Adams
3.5
2.6
Page
5.4

Taylor
2.7

Madison
3.3

Warren
3.0

Marion
3.0

Mahaska
3.7

Keokuk Washington
2.9
4.0

Union
3.5

Clarke
3.0

Lucas
3.3

Monroe
4.5

Wapello
6.8

Jefferson
4.0

Ringgold
3.5

Decatur
2.9

Wayne
3.7

Appanoose
4.6

Davis
5.2

Van Buren
3.8

The U.S. and state

unemployment rates are
seasonally adjusted.
County unemployment
rates are not seasonally
adjusted.

Source: Labor Market Information Division, Iowa Workforce Development

Louisa
3.7

Unemployment Rate
0.0 - 2.5

Henry
3.5

Des
Moines
4.6

2.6 - 4.0
4.1 - 6.0

Lee
5.6

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