Table 2

Black-white and Hispanic-white state unemployment rate ratios, 2024 Q4

State Black-white ratio Hispanic-white ratio
United States 1.9 1.6
Alabama 1.5 1.4*
Alaska 2.7* 2.0*
Arizona 1.6* 1.5
Arkansas 1.4 1.3*
California 1.6 1.3
Colorado 1.9* 1.6
Connecticut 1.6* 1.5
Delaware 1.9 1.9*
District of Columbia 4.5 2.8
Florida 2.0 1.3
Georgia 2.0 1.6*
Hawaii 1.2* 1.0*
Idaho 1.6* 1.1
Illinois 1.9 1.9
Indiana 2.0 1.7*
Iowa 1.9* 1.5*
Kansas 1.9* 1.6*
Kentucky 2.8 1.8*
Louisiana 2.2 1.9
Maine 1.6* 1.3*
Maryland 1.9 1.7*
Massachusetts 1.6 1.4
Michigan 1.9 1.4
Minnesota 1.9* 1.5*
Mississippi 1.8 1.6*
Missouri 2.0 1.5*
Montana 1.7* 1.4*
Nebraska 1.9* 1.9*
Nevada 1.3 1.1
New Hampshire 1.7* 1.4*
New Jersey 2.0 1.1
New Mexico 2.3* 1.5
New York 2.5 1.9
North Carolina 2.0 1.2
North Dakota 2.0* 1.7*
Ohio 2.7 1.5*
Oklahoma 1.5* 1.2
Oregon 1.7* 1.4
Pennsylvania 1.7 2.5
Rhode Island 1.6* 1.3
South Carolina 2.4 1.8*
South Dakota 2.0* 1.6*
Tennessee 2.3 1.5*
Texas 2.3 1.6
Utah 1.8* 1.5
Vermont 1.6* 1.3*
Virginia 2.5 1.5
Washington 1.7* 1.7
West Virginia 1.6* 1.3*
Wisconsin 2.5* 1.8*
Wyoming 1.8* 1.6
Economic Policy Institute

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.

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