Black–white and Hispanic–white state unemployment rate ratios, 2022 Q3

State Black–white ratio Hispanic–white ratio
United States 2.1 1.5
Alaska 2.7* 1.7*
Alabama 2.0 1.5*
Arkansas 1.5 1.2*
Arizona 1.7* 1.3
California 2.1 1.3
Colorado 2.2* 1.2
Connecticut 1.8* 1.7
District of Columbia 6.7 2.6
Delaware 2.2 1.5*
Florida 1.8 1.3
Georgia 2.1 1.3*
Hawaii 1.3* 1.0*
Iowa 2.3* 1.5*
Idaho 1.8* 1.2
Illinois 3.2 1.4
Indiana 2.3 1.4*
Kansas 1.8* 1.4*
Kentucky 1.7 1.3*
Louisiana 2.4 1.5
Massachusetts 1.3 1.8
Maryland 1.5 1.4*
Maine 1.8* 1.2*
Michigan 2.2 1.4
Minnesota 2.5* 1.6*
Missouri 2.0 1.4*
Mississippi 2.1 1.6*
Montana 1.7* 1.2*
North Carolina 2.5 1.0
North Dakota 1.9* 1.4*
Nebraska 2.2* 1.7*
New Hampshire 1.9* 1.3*
New Jersey 2.1 1.3
New Mexico 2.3* 1.5
Nevada 2.3 1.0
New York 2.6 1.8
Ohio 1.9 1.4*
Oklahoma 2.1* 1.3
Oregon 2.0* 1.9
Pennsylvania 2.4 2.2
Rhode Island 2.2* 1.7
South Carolina 2.1 1.5*
South Dakota 2.4* 1.7*
Tennessee 2.5 1.5*
Texas 2.1 1.6
Utah 2.0* 1.5
Virginia 2.4 1.7
Vermont 1.8* 1.2*
Washington 1.9* 1.4
Wisconsin 2.4* 1.4*
West Virginia 1.8* 1.3*
Wyoming 1.9* 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.