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Employment: Unemployment Rate

Employment: Unemployment Rate

Our interactive map shows annual average unemployment rates by county in Illinois.

Our interactive map lets users view the data by year. Users also can hover their cursor over individual counties to get the specific results for that county.

Current year data for a variety of geographic areas in Illinois can be found on the following websites:

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Labor market information from the Illinois Department of Employment Security
Illinois Virtual LMI (Labor Market Information) from the Illinois Department of Employment Security
Unemployment Rate (%) by Illinois County, GEOFRED, Geographic Economic Data from St. Louis Fed
America Counts Illinois State Profile, U.S. Census Bureau

Source of data: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics

Contact IECAM for earlier data spreadsheets (2008–2015) on this topic.

2016-2025 Numbers in Labor Force, Employed, & Unemployed and Annual Average Unemployment Rate (Percent) by State and County