Unemployment rate
BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · Monthly, ~3 week lag · latest period 2026-09-01 · vintage 2026-10-29
Latest period — 2026-09-01
| Area | Unemployment rate | Flag |
|---|---|---|
| Nevada | 4.5% | preliminary |
| Carson City | 3.5% | preliminary |
| Churchill | 4.0% | preliminary |
| Clark | 4.8% | preliminary |
| Douglas | 3.7% | preliminary |
| Elko | 3.0% | preliminary |
| Esmeralda | 5.7% | preliminary |
| Eureka | 4.3% | preliminary |
| Humboldt | 3.0% | preliminary |
| Lander | 3.7% | preliminary |
| Lincoln | 3.9% | preliminary |
| Lyon | 3.9% | preliminary |
| Mineral | 7.2% | preliminary |
| Nye | 6.0% | preliminary |
| Pershing | 3.6% | preliminary |
| Storey | 5.1% | preliminary |
| Washoe | 3.5% | preliminary |
| White Pine | 3.8% | preliminary |
A flag records how the source published the value: preliminary is
subject to revision, estimated was edited or filled by the source,
suspect was marked questionable by it, suppressed was
withheld to avoid identifying an individual employer, and
unavailable means no value was published for that period. A
suppressed or unavailable value is stored empty, never as a zero.
Methodology
Monthly labor force statistics from the Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program, requested directly from the BLS public API as published — not seasonally adjusted, and not recomputed here.
Revisions. LAUS restates the prior year each spring when BLS applies its annual benchmark. We do not overwrite what was published before: each run stores its values under a new vintage, so a figure cited last month remains retrievable.
Known gaps. County series begin in 1990. Values are model-based estimates for counties below the CPS sample threshold, which is most of Nevada outside Clark and Washoe; treat small-county month-to-month moves with care.
October 2025 is permanently missing. The lapse in federal appropriations
suspended the Current Population Survey that month. The household survey cannot
be conducted retroactively, so BLS will never publish an October 2025 figure for
any area. We store the period with a null value flagged unavailable rather
than dropping the month or interpolating across it: a gap in the chart is the
honest representation. Any series you build from this data should expect that
hole and not treat it as a zero.
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics · Methodology on its own page