Black–white and Hispanic–white state unemployment rate ratios, 2022 Q2

State Black–white ratio Hispanic–white ratio
United States 2.1 1.5
Alaska 2.5* 1.7*
Alabama 2.2 1.5*
Arkansas 1.6 1.3*
Arizona 1.7* 1.3
California 2.2 1.3
Colorado 2.3* 1.2
Connecticut 1.6* 1.6
District of Columbia 5.1 2.6
Delaware 2.1 1.4*
Florida 1.8 1.3
Georgia 1.9 1.2*
Hawaii 1.3* 0.9*
Iowa 2.4* 1.6*
Idaho 1.8* 1.1
Illinois 3.1 1.4
Indiana 2.4 1.4*
Kansas 1.8* 1.4*
Kentucky 1.8 1.3*
Louisiana 2.6 1.5
Massachusetts 1.4 2.0
Maryland 1.3 1.3*
Maine 1.8* 1.2*
Michigan 2.2 1.5
Minnesota 2.4* 1.5*
Missouri 2.4 1.4*
Mississippi 2.0 1.6*
Montana 1.8* 1.3*
North Carolina 2.2 1.2
North Dakota 2.0* 1.5*
Nebraska 2.2* 1.7*
New Hampshire 1.9* 1.3*
New Jersey 2.2 1.2
New Mexico 2.2* 1.6
Nevada 2.2 1.0
New York 2.3 1.7
Ohio 2.0 1.5*
Oklahoma 2.0* 1.4
Oregon 2.0* 1.8
Pennsylvania 2.6 2.3
Rhode Island 2.1* 1.7
South Carolina 2.3 1.6*
South Dakota 2.5* 1.8*
Tennessee 2.5 1.5*
Texas 2.0 1.6
Utah 1.9* 1.4
Virginia 2.4 1.5
Vermont 1.8* 1.3*
Washington 1.8* 1.2
Wisconsin 2.8* 1.6*
West Virginia 1.7* 1.3*
Wyoming 1.8* 1.2

Notes: Unemployment rates for each demographic group are produced from a weighted average of state and national unemployment trends. Those states and demographic groups with typically small sample sizes require a heavier weighting of national-level data to supplement their analysis, and are noted as such with an asterisk (*). See Methodology for more detail. 

Source: EPI analysis of Bureau of Labor Statistics Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) data and Current Population Survey (CPS) data.

View the underlying data on epi.org.