Hays County ranks #2 of 5 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro counties and #77 of 254 Texas counties on 12-month growth in the county labour force
the San Marcos-New Braunfels market · Data as of
· ALEX Intelligence
0.6%12-month growth in the county labour force (August 2026) — Hays County
#
County
12-month labour force growth
1
Williamson County
0.7%
2
Hays County
0.6%
3
Travis County
0.6%
4
Caldwell County
0.6%
5
Bastrop County
0.4%
Within Texas: #77 of 254 Texas counties
#
County
12-month labour force growth
1
Glasscock County
11.3%
2
Loving County
10.8%
3
Coke County
8.9%
4
Leon County
6.8%
5
Dickens County
6.8%
6
Upton County
6.4%
7
Kinney County
4.3%
8
Foard County
4.3%
9
Crockett County
4.0%
77
Hays County
0.6%
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
12-month labour force growth, ranked highest first across 5 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro counties, in the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area (CBSA 12420)
(5 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed
Within the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area (CBSA 12420): #2 of 5 Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos metro counties. Within Texas: #77 of 254 Texas counties. Every rank on this page is computed from the same table named under Source, filtered to the peer set named; units the source reports no value for are left out of every set. No rank is stated against any wider set. The counties fetched: every county in Texas.
Universe
Ranked only within the peer sets named on this page: the Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX metropolitan statistical area (CBSA 12420) (5 ranked); Texas (254 ranked). Units the source reports no value for are left out.
Every figure on this page is computed directly from the dataset named above
by ALEX Intelligence. No figure on this page was written by hand or by a
language model. The query is stated so that anyone can re-run it and obtain
the same table.