Where unemployment is lowest across the Colorado High Country

the Colorado High Country · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

3.3% county unemployment rate (August 2026) — Pitkin County
#CountyUnemployment rate
1Pitkin County3.3%
2Grand County3.4%
3Eagle County3.5%
4San Miguel County3.5%
5Routt County3.9%
6Summit County4.0%

Read this carefully: 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, August 2026 (county, seasonally unadjusted)
Measure
Unemployment rate, ranked lowest first across Eagle, Grand, Pitkin, Routt, San Miguel, Summit, CO (6 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/LAUCN080970000000003?startyear=2024&endyear=2026

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