People are counted as unemployed if they are at least 16 years old, are without a job and available for work, and have recently made specific efforts to find employment. The unemployment rate is the number of unemployed as a percent of the entire labor force.
Adams's monthly unemployment rate was 8.6 percent in November, 2020. This compares to 4.8 percent in Idaho as a whole.
Adams's average annual unemployment rate in 2019 . . .
was 6.8 percent compared to 2.9 for Idaho
was greater than the previous year's rate of 5.5 percent.
ranked 1st – from highest to lowest – out of Idaho's 44 counties.