Black-white and Hispanic-white state unemployment rate ratios, 2023 Q3

State Black-white ratio Hispanic-white ratio
United States 2.0 1.6
Alabama 1.5 1.5*
Alaska 3.2* 2.3*
Arizona 2.0* 1.4
Arkansas 1.6 1.4*
California 1.7 1.2
Colorado 1.9* 1.7
Connecticut 2.2* 1.8
Delaware 1.6 1.4*
District of Columbia 5.3 2.1
Florida 1.8 1.3
Georgia 2.7 1.6*
Hawaii 2.2* 1.9*
Idaho 1.9* 1.7
Illinois 2.9 1.5
Indiana 2.0 1.6*
Iowa 2.0* 1.6*
Kansas 1.6* 1.4*
Kentucky 2.5 1.5*
Louisiana 1.9 1.7
Maine 1.6* 1.3*
Maryland 2.0 1.8*
Massachusetts 2.0 1.8
Michigan 1.6 1.3
Minnesota 1.6* 1.3*
Mississippi 2.1 1.8*
Missouri 2.1 1.5*
Montana 1.9* 1.5*
Nebraska 2.1* 1.7*
Nevada 2.2 1.2
New Hampshire 1.6* 1.3*
New Jersey 2.4 1.2
New Mexico 2.0* 1.5
New York 2.5 2.1
North Carolina 2.0 1.2
North Dakota 2.1* 1.6*
Ohio 2.1 1.5*
Oklahoma 1.8* 1.3
Oregon 1.7* 1.3
Pennsylvania 1.3 1.8
Rhode Island 2.2* 2.5
South Carolina 2.5 1.8*
South Dakota 2.1* 1.6*
Tennessee 1.7 1.5*
Texas 2.2 1.7
Utah 1.8* 1.4
Vermont 1.6* 1.3*
Virginia 2.1 1.2
Washington 1.6* 1.3
West Virginia 1.8* 1.3*
Wisconsin 2.4* 2.0*
Wyoming 1.9* 1.8

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.