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US unemployment rate 4.2%

Sep 2026

US unemployment rate rose 0.2 points since Jan 2019

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Jesse Hawkins, “Grapher: US unemployment rate”, jesseahawkins.com, data retrieved 11 Oct 2026. https://jesseahawkins.com/series/unemployment/. Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, public domain.

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@misc{hawkins2026seriesunemployment,
  author = {Hawkins, Jesse},
  title = {{Grapher: US unemployment rate}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {\url{https://jesseahawkins.com/series/unemployment/}},
  note = {Data: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, public domain, retrieved 2026-10-11}
}

The series

Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted (Current Population Survey (household survey)). Retrieved by this site on 2026-10-11.

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Newest reading	Sep 2026	4.2%
A year before	Sep 2025	4.4%
Highest reading	Apr 2020	14.8%
Lowest reading	Apr 2023	3.4%
First reading	Jan 2019	4.0%

What the series is

Unemployment rate, seasonally adjusted (Current Population Survey (household survey)). Unit: percent. 1 period has no reading, and the line breaks there.

Terms: Seasonally adjusted

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U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, public domain: US unemployment rate. Retrieved 2026-10-11.