# Cities in Kentucky by unemployed people, 2025

All 16 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/kentucky-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lexington, KY | 6,764 |
| 2 | Bowling Green, KY | 1,774 |
| 3 | Owensboro, KY | 1,216 |
| 4 | Richmond, KY | 956 |
| 5 | Covington, KY | 918 |
| 6 | Georgetown, KY | 822 |
| 7 | Elizabethtown, KY | 728 |
| 8 | Florence, KY | 695 |
| 9 | Nicholasville, KY | 652 |
| 10 | Hopkinsville, KY | 641 |
| 11 | Jeffersontown, KY | 630 |
| 12 | Frankfort, KY | 627 |
| 13 | Independence, KY | 606 |
| 14 | Paducah, KY | 573 |
| 15 | Henderson, KY | 566 |
| 16 | Ashland, KY | 469 |