# Cities in Maryland by unemployed people, 2025

All 10 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/maryland-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Baltimore, MD | 14,783 |
| 2 | Frederick, MD | 1,751 |
| 3 | Gaithersburg, MD | 1,418 |
| 4 | Rockville, MD | 1,364 |
| 5 | Bowie, MD | 1,297 |
| 6 | Hagerstown, MD | 966 |
| 7 | College Park, MD | 849 |
| 8 | Salisbury, MD | 816 |
| 9 | Laurel, MD | 764 |
| 10 | Annapolis, MD | 739 |