# Counties in Iowa by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 99 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/covered-employment/iowa-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Polk County | 314,942 |
| 2 | Linn County | 125,508 |
| 3 | Scott County | 92,986 |
| 4 | Johnson County | 85,623 |
| 5 | Black Hawk County | 70,713 |
| 6 | Dubuque County | 57,730 |
| 7 | Dallas County | 56,432 |
| 8 | Woodbury County | 50,924 |
| 9 | Story County | 47,004 |
| 10 | Pottawattamie County | 41,804 |
| 11 | Cerro Gordo County | 23,463 |
| 12 | Sioux County | 23,005 |
| 13 | Muscatine County | 20,987 |
| 14 | Des Moines County | 20,080 |
| 15 | Marion County | 19,508 |
| 16 | Clinton County | 18,870 |
| 17 | Webster County | 17,328 |
| 18 | Marshall County | 15,942 |
| 19 | Wapello County | 15,248 |
| 20 | Warren County | 13,611 |
| 21 | Lee County | 13,598 |
| 22 | Plymouth County | 11,642 |
| 23 | Carroll County | 10,938 |
| 24 | Jasper County | 10,688 |
| 25 | Winneshiek County | 10,515 |
| 26 | Buena Vista County | 10,291 |
| 27 | Dickinson County | 9,794 |
| 28 | Bremer County | 9,525 |
| 29 | Poweshiek County | 9,222 |
| 30 | Boone County | 8,838 |
| 31 | Washington County | 8,780 |
| 32 | Clay County | 8,536 |
| 33 | Iowa County | 8,382 |
| 34 | Henry County | 8,140 |
| 35 | Mahaska County | 8,096 |
| 36 | Jefferson County | 7,058 |
| 37 | Fayette County | 6,976 |
| 38 | Delaware County | 6,886 |
| 39 | Buchanan County | 6,767 |
| 40 | O'Brien County | 6,559 |
| 41 | Hardin County | 6,553 |
| 42 | Kossuth County | 6,481 |
| 43 | Crawford County | 6,449 |
| 44 | Wright County | 6,325 |
| 45 | Jones County | 6,279 |
| 46 | Page County | 6,243 |
| 47 | Clayton County | 6,171 |
| 48 | Benton County | 6,040 |
| 49 | Union County | 5,822 |
| 50 | Hancock County | 5,761 |
| 51 | Jackson County | 5,754 |
| 52 | Hamilton County | 5,703 |
| 53 | Cass County | 5,700 |
| 54 | Floyd County | 5,573 |
| 55 | Shelby County | 5,531 |
| 56 | Tama County | 5,391 |
| 57 | Cedar County | 5,205 |
| 58 | Chickasaw County | 5,150 |
| 59 | Lyon County | 4,951 |
| 60 | Cherokee County | 4,908 |
| 61 | Allamakee County | 4,802 |
| 62 | Clarke County | 4,770 |
| 63 | Appanoose County | 4,522 |
| 64 | Howard County | 4,358 |
| 65 | Madison County | 4,194 |
| 66 | Harrison County | 4,087 |
| 67 | Grundy County | 4,081 |
| 68 | Montgomery County | 4,004 |
| 69 | Franklin County | 3,877 |
| 70 | Mitchell County | 3,871 |
| 71 | Winnebago County | 3,865 |
| 72 | Humboldt County | 3,713 |
| 73 | Louisa County | 3,697 |
| 74 | Butler County | 3,676 |
| 75 | Palo Alto County | 3,659 |
| 76 | Ida County | 3,654 |
| 77 | Monroe County | 3,569 |
| 78 | Adair County | 3,350 |
| 79 | Emmet County | 3,306 |
| 80 | Guthrie County | 3,205 |
| 81 | Lucas County | 3,177 |
| 82 | Greene County | 3,139 |
| 83 | Mills County | 3,133 |
| 84 | Sac County | 2,954 |
| 85 | Calhoun County | 2,741 |
| 86 | Osceola County | 2,641 |
| 87 | Monona County | 2,556 |
| 88 | Pocahontas County | 2,525 |
| 89 | Decatur County | 2,312 |
| 90 | Worth County | 2,284 |
| 91 | Keokuk County | 2,280 |
| 92 | Fremont County | 2,168 |
| 93 | Taylor County | 2,060 |
| 94 | Wayne County | 2,023 |
| 95 | Davis County | 1,981 |
| 96 | Van Buren County | 1,928 |
| 97 | Audubon County | 1,797 |
| 98 | Ringgold County | 1,393 |
| 99 | Adams County | 1,168 |