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Men's unemployment rate: U.S. states ranked (2025)

Measure: Men's unemployment rate (ages 20 to 64, %). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Employment of women and men by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2025.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 4.7 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 7 %
RI 4 %
DE 5 %
CT 5.4 %
NJ 5.3 %
MD 4.6 %
MA 5 %
VT 3.3 %
NH 2.6 %

Lowest: 1.4 to 3.4 %
Group 2: 3.4 to 4 %
Group 3: 4 to 4.6 %
Group 4: 4.6 to 5.3 %
Highest: 5.3 to 7 %

The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. Values are as published in the source table.


1	District of Columbia	7
2	California	6
3	New York	5.7
3	Oregon	5.7
5	Alaska	5.4
5	Connecticut	5.4
5	Illinois	5.4
8	Nevada	5.3
8	New Jersey	5.3
8	Washington	5.3
8	West Virginia	5.3
12	Michigan	5.1
13	Delaware	5
13	Massachusetts	5
13	New Mexico	5
16	Mississippi	4.9
16	Pennsylvania	4.9
18	Wyoming	4.7
19	Kentucky	4.6
19	Maryland	4.6
19	Texas	4.6
22	Alabama	4.5
23	Arizona	4.4
23	Georgia	4.4
25	Minnesota	4.3
26	Indiana	4.2
26	Louisiana	4.2
26	South Carolina	4.2
29	Colorado	4.1
29	Florida	4.1
31	Arkansas	4
31	Rhode Island	4
33	Ohio	3.9
33	Oklahoma	3.9
35	North Carolina	3.8
36	Missouri	3.7
36	Virginia	3.7
38	Kansas	3.6
39	Iowa	3.5
39	Utah	3.5
41	Maine	3.4
41	Wisconsin	3.4
43	Tennessee	3.3
43	Vermont	3.3
45	Hawaii	3.1
46	Montana	2.9
46	Nebraska	2.9
48	Idaho	2.7
49	New Hampshire	2.6
50	South Dakota	2.4
51	North Dakota	1.4

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, Table S2301: Employment Status. Reference period: 2025.

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U.S. states ranked by men's unemployment rate (ages 20 to 64, %) (2025). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey, ACS 1-year estimates, Table S2301; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-mens-unemployment-rate/

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