# Cities in Oklahoma by unemployed people, 2025

All 20 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/oklahoma-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Oklahoma City, OK | 12,374 |
| 2 | Tulsa, OK | 7,423 |
| 3 | Norman, OK | 2,224 |
| 4 | Broken Arrow, OK | 1,964 |
| 5 | Edmond, OK | 1,588 |
| 6 | Lawton, OK | 1,451 |
| 7 | Midwest City, OK | 1,095 |
| 8 | Moore, OK | 1,043 |
| 9 | Stillwater, OK | 820 |
| 10 | Enid, OK | 733 |
| 11 | Muskogee, OK | 683 |
| 12 | Owasso, OK | 661 |
| 13 | Bartlesville, OK | 609 |
| 14 | Shawnee, OK | 564 |
| 15 | Ardmore, OK | 537 |
| 16 | Bixby, OK | 476 |
| 17 | Yukon, OK | 444 |
| 18 | Del City, OK | 421 |
| 19 | Jenks, OK | 417 |
| 20 | Ponca City, OK | 397 |