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Unemployment Rate by Race and Ethnicity

U.S. unemployment rate by race and Hispanic origin, %

Black: 7.0% in Sep 2026−4.2 pp since Jan 1972

0 of 4 series are above their level a year earlier

Plays the chart through its history. Pauses are where the data set a record or moved most.

Unemployment by race and ethnicity from the household survey. The groups move together through the cycle, but the gaps between them persist.

What this chart reads

Sources

Black Unemployment Rate. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, series LNS14000006 (seasonally adjusted). Retrieved through FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000006). Public domain (US government work); cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Refreshed nightly by fred-sync.

Hispanic or Latino Unemployment Rate. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, series LNS14000009 (seasonally adjusted). Retrieved through FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000009). Public domain (US government work); cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Refreshed nightly by fred-sync.

White Unemployment Rate. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, series LNS14000003 (seasonally adjusted). Retrieved through FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14000003). Public domain (US government work); cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Refreshed nightly by fred-sync.

Asian Unemployment Rate. Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Current Population Survey, series LNS14032183 (seasonally adjusted). Retrieved through FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis (https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/LNS14032183). Public domain (US government work); cite the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Refreshed nightly by fred-sync.

Charts are drawn from Palanor's signal library and recomputed from source data on every view. Transformations (changes, indexing, year-on-year rates) are Palanor's.

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