D03Monthly · % of labor force
Unemployment rate: LA County, California, U.S.
Unemployment rates for Los Angeles County, California, and the United States stay on separate series.
Not fucked
Inside its 2017–19 range · improvingJudged on “California (SA)”. Higher unemployment is bad. Scored reading: Unemployment rate 5.1 %.
How verdicts work →California (SA)
5.1% · Sep 2026LA County (NSA)
4.5% · Sep 2026U.S. (SA)
4.1% · Oct 2026Dashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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Where this sits in the reading
5.1%
Unemployment rate, California (SA), 3-month average
–Within 2017–19↗ImprovingConfirmed ×2
5.23%
LA County unemployment rate (NSA, 12-month average)
–Within 2017–19↗ImprovingConfirmed ×2
Position versus 2017–19 is descriptive. “Within range” doesn’t mean acceptable — 2017–19 may itself have been strained.
What this is
LA County is not seasonally adjusted, so its 12-month trailing mean is plotted.
- Unit
- % of labor force
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Geography
- LA County (NSA, 12-mo mean); California (SA); U.S. (SA)
- Coverage
- From 1 Jan 2012 · latest observation 1 Oct 2026
- Release
- Monthly: U.S. first Friday, state ~3rd Friday, county ~1 month later
- Typical lag
- 3-7 weeks
- Source
- BLS via FRED · fred.stlouisfed.org ↗
- Vintage
- FRED download 2026-11-06
- Pipeline
- automated download
Every observation in this file
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