Unemployment Rate and Labor Force

Labor Market Information Resources and Data: Home | By Customer | By Subject | By Geography | Data Search Tools | Online Services

Each month the Employment Development Department releases revised and preliminary civilian labor force, unemployment rates, and industry employment by geography for California, metropolitan areas, counties, and sub-county areas. The last data released was for January 2024. For a complete schedule of future data releases, please visit the Release Schedule.

Monthly EDD Press Release

View a Statewide or a County Press Release:
Data for areas on the drop down list that have an * after the name offer multi-county Metropolitan Area data only.

Note: This page was recently redesigned – and some new data tools were added that will make it easier to explore, visualize, and download the datasets listed on this page.


Counties

(May require Adobe Reader ):

2024: Jan

2023: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

Annual Averages: 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

Historical Data: EDD Open Data Portal | Legacy Data Search Tool

Metropolitan Areas

(May require Adobe Reader ):

Local Workforce Development Areas (Local Areas)

(May require AdobeReader):

2024: Jan

2023: Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec

Annual Averages: 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018

Historical Data: EDD Open Data Portal | Legacy Data Search Tool

Sub-County Areas (Cities and Towns)

Annual Averages (all California counties and their sub-areas): 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019

Historical Data: EDD Open Data Portal | Legacy Data Search Tool

For more information about the unemployment rate and labor force data collection and calculation visit, About the Labor Force data, Methodology for Generating Labor Force Data and Labor Market Information FAQs.

The EDD Labor Market Information website offers a nearly comprehensive array of non-confidential labor market data and analytical products to our customers in a variety of formats that is available to download. In addition to the information available online, we may also be able to provide customized reports, data runs, technical assistance and training, or geographic analyses or maps to help you make better decisions or better inform your audience. This is a fee based service. For more information please visit Customized Data Service.