A more comprehensive look at unemployment rates: Unemployment rates for select workers by race/ethnicity and gender, February 2020, April 2020, December 2024, and January 2025

characteristic February 2020 April 2020 December 2024 January 2025
White men 2.9% 12.3% 3.3% 3.1%
White women 2.7% 15.0% 3.4% 3.3%
Black men 6.2% 16.5% 5.6% 6.9%
Black women 5.0% 16.4% 5.4% 5.4%
Latinx men 3.3% 16.6% 4.0% 4.0%
Latinx women 4.8% 20.3% 5.3% 4.5%

 

Notes: Data are for workers ages 20 and older. Racial and ethnic categories are not mutually exclusive; white and Black data do not exclude Latinx workers of each race. Unemployment levels are labeled for February, November, and the peak in between.

Source: EPI analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Household Data Table A-2, and Table A-3.

View the underlying data on epi.org.