Idaho State Counties
Reservations
Cassia: Unemployment rate

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.

Cassia's monthly unemployment rate was 2.8 percent in August, 2023. This compares to 3.2 percent in Idaho as a whole.

Cassia's average annual unemployment rate in 2020 . . .

  • was 3.7 percent compared to 5.5 for Idaho
  • was greater than the previous year's rate of 2.4 percent.
  • ranked 38th – from highest to lowest – out of Idaho's 44 counties.
 

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Note: Monthly data for counties and states are not seasonally adjusted. The Bureau of Labor Statistics often revises previous estimates. Data are adjusted accordingly on this website.

Source: 1991-2023: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, Labor Force Data by County, (https://data.bls.gov/cgi-bin/dsrv?la); DATE LAST UPDATED: October 25, 2023.




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