D05Weekly · claims per week (thousands)
California initial unemployment claims, weekly (4-week average)
Not fucked
Inside its 2017–19 range · flat latelyJudged on “4-week average”. More new jobless claims is bad. Scored reading: Jobless claims vs a year ago −5.57 % vs a year earlier.
How verdicts work →4-week average
39,676claims · 31 Oct 2026 · derivedweekly (NSA)
39,974claims · 31 Oct 2026Dashed / hollow = preliminary or estimate
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Where this sits in the reading
Position versus 2017–19 is descriptive. “Within range” doesn’t mean acceptable — 2017–19 may itself have been strained.
What this is
4-week trailing mean. The spring-2020 spike is clipped at the top of the axis (labeled).
- Unit
- claims per week (thousands)
- Frequency
- Weekly
- Geography
- California
- Coverage
- From 7 Jan 2012 · latest observation 31 Oct 2026
- Release
- Weekly, Thursdays
- Typical lag
- ~1-2 weeks
- Source
- DOL via FRED · fred.stlouisfed.org ↗
- Vintage
- FRED download 2026-11-06
- Pipeline
- automated download
Every observation in this file
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