Where unemployment is lowest across the Texas Hill Country

the Texas Hill Country · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

3.6% county unemployment rate (August 2026) — Gillespie County
#CountyUnemployment rate
1Gillespie County3.6%
2Kendall County3.8%
3Kerr County3.9%
4Mason County3.9%
5Blanco County4.0%
6Burnet County4.0%
7Llano County4.4%
8Bandera County4.5%
9Kimble County4.6%
10Real County5.1%

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 Bandera, Blanco, Burnet, Gillespie, Kendall, Kerr, Kimble, Llano, Mason, Real, TX (10 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
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https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/LAUCN481710000000003?startyear=2024&endyear=2026

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