The Local Area Unemployment Statistics release include monthly and annual-average estimates of civilian labor force, employed people, unemployed people, and unemployment rates for different geographies. These data are based on the Current Population Survey (CPS), the household survey that is the source of the national unemployment rate. For more details, see the frequently asked questions here: https://www.bls.gov/lau/laufaq.htm.


   

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    Feb 2026
Percent
Name Period Value Preceding
Period
Year Ago
from Period
Aleutians East Borough
Feb 2026 2.4 3.5 3.1
Aleutians West Census Area
Feb 2026 2.1 3.6 2.4
Anchorage Borough/municipality
Feb 2026 4.2 4.5 4.3
Bethel Census Area
Feb 2026 11.7 11.5 12.5
Bristol Bay Borough
Feb 2026 9.1 9.3 11.0
Denali Borough
Feb 2026 12.9 14.6 12.6
Dillingham Census Area
Feb 2026 9.6 9.6 8.6
Fairbanks North Star Borough
Feb 2026 4.6 5.0 4.5
Haines Borough
Feb 2026 13.0 13.8 12.5
Juneau Borough/city
Feb 2026 3.7 4.2 4.1
Kenai Peninsula Borough
Feb 2026 6.3 6.5 6.7
Ketchikan Gateway Borough
Feb 2026 5.4 5.5 5.6
Kodiak Island Borough
Feb 2026 4.0 5.4 4.4
Kusilvak Census Area
Feb 2026 19.2 18.5 19.3
Lake and Peninsula Borough
Feb 2026 9.8 9.4 7.3
Matanuska-Susitna Borough
Feb 2026 5.4 5.7 5.9
Nome Census Area
Feb 2026 10.7 10.7 9.5
North Slope Borough
Feb 2026 3.0 3.4 3.2
Northwest Arctic Borough
Feb 2026 11.0 10.2 10.8
Petersburg Borough
Feb 2026 4.1 5.3 7.3
Prince of Wales-Outer Ketchikan Census Area
. . . .
Sitka Borough/city
Feb 2026 3.7 4.3 4.2
Skagway-Hoonah-Angoon Census Area
. . . .
Skagway Municipality
Feb 2026 19.7 21.0 20.0
Southeast Fairbanks Census Area
Feb 2026 8.3 8.4 7.4
Valdez-Cordova Census Area
. . . .
Wrangell Borough/City
Feb 2026 6.4 6.3 6.1
Wrangell-Petersburg Census Area
. . . .
Yakutat City and Borough (MSA)
Feb 2026 8.9 8.7 7.9
Yukon-Koyukuk Census Area
Feb 2026 12.5 12.8 12.6
   

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