# Counties in Alaska by unemployment rate, August 2026

All 30 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2026-08, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `unemployment_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Unemployed people as a percentage of the labour force, using the survey definition of unemployment: without work, available and looking for work. Spain: EPA, aged 16 and over. EU: Labour Force Survey, aged 15 to 74. United States: civilian labour force aged 16 and over, from the Current Population Survey for the nation and from BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics models, consistent with that survey, for states and counties. Other countries and the World: ILO modelled estimates published by the World Bank, aged 15 and over.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics: unemployment rate by county, not seasonally adjusted (https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-08
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics: unemployment rate by county, not seasonally adjusted. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-08.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployment-rate/alaska-counties
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/unemployment-rate/alaska-counties.csv

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Kusilvak Census Area | 18.2 |
| 2 | Bethel Census Area | 10.3 |
| 3 | Northwest Arctic Borough | 8.8 |
| 4 | Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area | 8.7 |
| 5 | Nome Census Area | 8.5 |
| 6 | Prince of Wales-Hyder Census Area | 6.8 |
| 7 | Dillingham Census Area | 6.1 |
| 8 | Copper River Census Area | 5.3 |
| 8 | Lake and Peninsula Borough | 5.3 |
| 10 | Southeast Fairbanks Census Area | 5.2 |
| 11 | Haines Borough | 4.9 |
| 12 | Yakutat City and Borough | 4 |
| 13 | Hoonah-Angoon Census Area | 3.8 |
| 14 | Matanuska-Susitna Borough | 3.5 |
| 15 | Kenai Peninsula Borough | 3.4 |
| 16 | Fairbanks North Star Borough | 3.1 |
| 17 | Anchorage Municipality | 3 |
| 17 | Chugach Census Area | 3 |
| 17 | North Slope Borough | 3 |
| 17 | Wrangell City and Borough | 3 |
| 21 | Ketchikan Gateway Borough | 2.5 |
| 22 | Kodiak Island Borough | 2.4 |
| 23 | Juneau City and Borough | 2.3 |
| 23 | Skagway Municipality | 2.3 |
| 25 | Bristol Bay Borough | 2.2 |
| 25 | Petersburg Borough | 2.2 |
| 27 | Sitka City and Borough | 2.1 |
| 28 | Aleutians West Census Area | 2 |
| 29 | Denali Borough | 1.8 |
| 30 | Aleutians East Borough | 1.7 |