Where unemployment fell most across the Birmingham market

the Birmingham market · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

0.5% 12-month change in the county unemployment rate — Chilton County
#County12-month change
1Chilton County0.5%
2Shelby County0.5%
3Blount County0.6%
4Bibb County0.7%
5Jefferson County0.7%
6Walker County0.7%
7St. Clair County0.8%

Read this carefully: Percentage points, not seasonally adjusted. BLS.gov cannot vouch for the data or analyses derived from these data after the data have been retrieved from BLS.gov.

Methodology

Source:
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, July 2026 (county, seasonally unadjusted)
Measure
12-month change, ranked lowest first across Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, Shelby, St. Clair, Walker, AL (7 ranked in total).
Universe
Places below a 5,000-resident floor are excluded so a median computed on a handful of households cannot top the ranking.
Vintage
2026
Reproduce this query
https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/LAUCN010210000000003?startyear=2024&endyear=2026

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