Black-white and Hispanic-white state unemployment rate ratios, 2024 Q2

State Black-white ratio Hispanic-white ratio
United States 2.0 1.6
Alabama 1.8 1.5*
Alaska 2.7* 2.0*
Arizona 1.6* 1.3
Arkansas 1.8 1.5*
California 1.7 1.2
Colorado 2.1* 1.7
Connecticut 1.6* 1.2
Delaware 1.5 1.6*
District of Columbia 4.0 2.2
Florida 2.1 1.2
Georgia 2.7 1.8*
Hawaii 1.4* 1.1*
Idaho 1.7* 1.3
Illinois 2.2 1.4
Indiana 2.0 1.8*
Iowa 2.4* 1.6*
Kansas 2.0* 1.5*
Kentucky 3.5 1.8*
Louisiana 2.0 1.7
Maine 1.7* 1.3*
Maryland 1.7 1.7*
Massachusetts 1.7 1.4
Michigan 1.6 1.4
Minnesota 1.8* 1.5*
Mississippi 1.6 1.6*
Missouri 2.3 1.5*
Montana 1.8* 1.4*
Nebraska 2.0* 1.8*
Nevada 1.5 1.3
New Hampshire 1.6* 1.2*
New Jersey 2.2 1.2
New Mexico 1.8* 1.2
New York 2.4 2.1
North Carolina 2.2 1.4
North Dakota 2.4* 1.6*
Ohio 2.8 1.7*
Oklahoma 1.7* 1.4
Oregon 1.6* 1.2
Pennsylvania 2.0 2.3
Rhode Island 1.7* 1.5
South Carolina 2.3 1.8*
South Dakota 1.8* 1.5*
Tennessee 2.0 1.5*
Texas 2.1 1.6
Utah 2.0* 1.8
Vermont 1.6* 1.3*
Virginia 1.9 1.5
Washington 1.5* 1.6
West Virginia 1.6* 1.3*
Wisconsin 2.6* 2.0*
Wyoming 2.0* 2.3

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.