# Cities in South Carolina by unemployed people, 2025

All 25 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/south-carolina-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Columbia, SC | 3,453 |
| 2 | Charleston, SC | 3,256 |
| 3 | North Charleston, SC | 2,577 |
| 4 | Rock Hill, SC | 2,093 |
| 5 | Mount Pleasant, SC | 1,735 |
| 6 | Greenville, SC | 1,627 |
| 7 | Summerville, SC | 1,036 |
| 8 | Goose Creek, SC | 1,029 |
| 9 | Myrtle Beach, SC | 964 |
| 10 | Spartanburg, SC | 959 |
| 11 | Sumter, SC | 957 |
| 12 | Florence, SC | 945 |
| 13 | Greer, SC | 911 |
| 14 | Conway, SC | 830 |
| 15 | Fort Mill, SC | 721 |
| 16 | Aiken, SC | 660 |
| 17 | Hilton Head Island, SC | 654 |
| 18 | Anderson, SC | 636 |
| 19 | Mauldin, SC | 624 |
| 20 | Simpsonville, SC | 601 |
| 21 | Bluffton, SC | 592 |
| 22 | Easley, SC | 520 |
| 23 | North Augusta, SC | 484 |
| 24 | Lexington, SC | 455 |
| 25 | Hanahan, SC | 381 |