# Cities in Alabama by unemployed people, 2025

All 30 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `unemployed_persons`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents with no job who were available for work and had looked for work in the previous four weeks, or were waiting to be recalled from a layoff, annual average. People aged 16 and over by place of residence, from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Active-duty military personnel and people living in institutions are excluded.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: unemployment (measure 04), annual average (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: unemployment (measure 04), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployed-people/alabama-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Mobile, AL | 3,532 |
| 2 | Birmingham, AL | 3,329 |
| 3 | Huntsville, AL | 3,126 |
| 4 | Montgomery, AL | 2,910 |
| 5 | Tuscaloosa, AL | 1,771 |
| 6 | Hoover, AL | 1,073 |
| 7 | Auburn, AL | 1,056 |
| 8 | Dothan, AL | 923 |
| 9 | Madison, AL | 737 |
| 10 | Decatur, AL | 713 |
| 11 | Florence, AL | 586 |
| 12 | Phenix City, AL | 500 |
| 13 | Prattville, AL | 464 |
| 14 | Gadsden, AL | 460 |
| 15 | Opelika, AL | 453 |
| 16 | Prichard, AL | 396 |
| 17 | Alabaster, AL | 394 |
| 18 | Athens, AL | 387 |
| 19 | Vestavia Hills, AL | 383 |
| 20 | Bessemer, AL | 379 |
| 21 | Northport, AL | 378 |
| 22 | Daphne, AL | 369 |
| 23 | Enterprise, AL | 361 |
| 24 | Foley, AL | 352 |
| 25 | Anniston, AL | 332 |
| 26 | Selma, AL | 314 |
| 27 | Homewood, AL | 312 |
| 28 | Pelham, AL | 305 |
| 29 | Trussville, AL | 294 |
| 30 | Fairhope, AL | 268 |