Black-white and Hispanic-white state unemployment rate ratios, 2023 Q2

State Black-white ratio Hispanic-white ratio
United States 2.0 1.5
Alabama 1.4 1.4*
Alaska 3.0* 2.1*
Arizona 2.1* 1.5
Arkansas 1.6 1.2*
California 1.9 1.2
Colorado 1.9* 1.2
Connecticut 2.2* 2.0
Delaware 1.6 1.4*
District of Columbia 6.3 2.2
Florida 1.6 1.2
Georgia 2.5 1.4*
Hawaii 1.8* 1.5*
Idaho 1.9* 1.5
Illinois 3.1 1.6
Indiana 2.5 1.7*
Iowa 2.0* 1.6*
Kansas 1.7* 1.3*
Kentucky 2.4 1.5*
Louisiana 1.9 1.8
Maine 1.7* 1.3*
Maryland 2.2 1.7*
Massachusetts 1.7 1.7
Michigan 1.7 1.3
Minnesota 1.7* 1.4*
Mississippi 2.3 1.8*
Missouri 1.9 1.5*
Montana 1.9* 1.4*
Nebraska 2.2* 1.8*
Nevada 2.5 1.1
New Hampshire 1.7* 1.3*
New Jersey 2.3 1.2
New Mexico 2.2* 1.6
New York 2.7 2.1
North Carolina 2.2 1.1
North Dakota 2.0* 1.5*
Ohio 2.0 1.3*
Oklahoma 2.2* 1.5
Oregon 1.8* 1.6
Pennsylvania 1.3 1.9
Rhode Island 2.2* 2.5
South Carolina 2.0 1.6*
South Dakota 2.4* 1.8*
Tennessee 1.8 1.6*
Texas 2.3 1.8
Utah 1.9* 1.5
Vermont 1.6* 1.2*
Virginia 2.2 1.4
Washington 1.6* 1.3
West Virginia 1.8* 1.3*
Wisconsin 2.2* 1.5*
Wyoming 2.0* 1.6

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.