Black-white and Hispanic-white state unemployment rate ratios, 2024 Q3

State Black-white ratio Hispanic-white ratio
United States 2.0 1.6
Alabama 1.9 1.6*
Alaska 2.6* 1.9*
Arizona 1.6* 1.4
Arkansas 1.6 1.3*
California 1.6 1.3
Colorado 2.0* 1.5
Connecticut 1.5* 1.4
Delaware 1.5 1.6*
District of Columbia 4.5 2.6
Florida 1.9 1.2
Georgia 2.1 1.7*
Hawaii 1.3* 1.0*
Idaho 1.6* 1.2
Illinois 2.0 1.7
Indiana 2.3 1.8*
Iowa 2.1* 1.7*
Kansas 2.0* 1.5*
Kentucky 3.2 1.8*
Louisiana 2.1 1.8
Maine 1.6* 1.3*
Maryland 1.8 1.8*
Massachusetts 1.5 1.3
Michigan 2.0 1.5
Minnesota 1.9* 1.5*
Mississippi 1.6 1.6*
Missouri 2.4 1.6*
Montana 1.8* 1.4*
Nebraska 1.9* 1.7*
Nevada 1.4 1.1
New Hampshire 1.5* 1.2*
New Jersey 1.9 1.2
New Mexico 2.1* 1.4
New York 2.7 2.1
North Carolina 2.1 1.3
North Dakota 2.4* 1.6*
Ohio 2.6 1.6*
Oklahoma 1.7* 1.3
Oregon 1.6* 1.3
Pennsylvania 1.8 2.4
Rhode Island 1.8* 1.5
South Carolina 2.3 1.7*
South Dakota 1.9* 1.6*
Tennessee 1.9 1.5*
Texas 2.3 1.6
Utah 1.9* 1.7
Vermont 1.6* 1.3*
Virginia 2.4 1.8
Washington 1.5* 1.6
West Virginia 1.6* 1.3*
Wisconsin 2.5* 1.7*
Wyoming 1.9* 2.0

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.