Black–white and Hispanic–white state unemployment rate ratios, 2023 Q1

State Black–white ratio Hispanic–white ratio
United States 2.0 1.5
Alabama 1.6 1.5*
Alaska 2.6* 1.8*
Arizona 1.9* 1.6
Arkansas 1.6 1.2*
California 2.0 1.2
Colorado 1.8* 1.1
Connecticut 2.2* 1.9
Delaware 1.7 1.4*
District of Columbia 5.9 2.2
Florida 1.5 1.2
Georgia 2.5 1.4*
Hawaii 1.6* 1.2*
Idaho 1.8* 1.4
Illinois 3.2 1.5
Indiana 2.4 1.6*
Iowa 2.1* 1.7*
Kansas 1.7* 1.4*
Kentucky 2.1 1.4*
Louisiana 1.9 1.7
Maine 1.7* 1.3*
Maryland 1.9 1.6*
Massachusetts 1.3 1.7
Michigan 1.7 1.3
Minnesota 1.8* 1.4*
Mississippi 2.2 1.8*
Missouri 2.1 1.5*
Montana 1.8* 1.4*
Nebraska 2.2* 1.9*
Nevada 2.4 1.1
New Hampshire 1.8* 1.3*
New Jersey 2.4 1.3
New Mexico 2.0* 1.3
New York 2.8 2.1
North Carolina 2.2 1.3
North Dakota 1.9* 1.4*
Ohio 1.9 1.4*
Oklahoma 2.2* 1.6
Oregon 1.8* 1.5
Pennsylvania 1.5 2.1
Rhode Island 2.4* 3.0
South Carolina 1.9 1.5*
South Dakota 2.5* 1.9*
Tennessee 1.9 1.5*
Texas 2.2 1.8
Utah 1.9* 1.5
Vermont 1.7* 1.3*
Virginia 2.0 1.4
Washington 1.8* 1.4
West Virginia 1.8* 1.3*
Wisconsin 2.0* 1.4*
Wyoming 2.0* 1.5

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 Methodological note 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.