Socioenvironmental Maps—Unemployment

Unemployment Rate by County 2015. Counties with the highest unemployment rates in 2015 were scattered throughout northern Michigan, Alaska, the West Coast, the Mississippi Delta, eastern Kentucky, and rural Georgia and Alabama. The range in the unemployment rate was between 1.8% and 24.3%.

Geographic Patterns: Counties with the highest unemployment rates in 2021 were scattered throughout Puerto Rico, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Alaska, California, Mississippi, Texas, New Mexico, and Washington. Pockets of high-rate counties are also found in Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maryland, North Carolina, Alabama, Nevada, and Oregon. The range in the unemployment rate was between 0.9% and 19.9%.