Arapahoe County ranks #6 of 10 Denver-Aurora-Centennial metro counties and #37 of 64 Colorado counties on 12-month growth in the county labour force
Aurora and the eastern Denver metro · Data as of
· ALEX Intelligence
-2.6%12-month growth in the county labour force (September 2026) — Arapahoe County
#
County
12-month labour force growth
1
Elbert County
-2.0%
2
Clear Creek County
-2.4%
3
Adams County
-2.5%
4
Denver County
-2.6%
5
Broomfield County
-2.6%
6
Arapahoe County
-2.6%
7
Douglas County
-2.6%
8
Jefferson County
-2.7%
9
Park County
-2.7%
10
Gilpin County
-3.0%
Within Colorado: #37 of 64 Colorado counties
#
County
12-month labour force growth
1
Saguache County
2.6%
2
Yuma County
2.3%
3
Kit Carson County
2.2%
4
Conejos County
1.4%
5
Cheyenne County
1.4%
6
Washington County
0.9%
7
Baca County
0.6%
8
Grand County
0.6%
9
Phillips County
0.5%
37
Arapahoe County
-2.6%
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, September 2026 (county, seasonally unadjusted)
Measure
12-month labour force growth, ranked highest first across 10 Denver-Aurora-Centennial metro counties, in the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan statistical area (CBSA 19740)
(10 ranked in total).
How the headline figure is computed
Within the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan statistical area (CBSA 19740): #6 of 10 Denver-Aurora-Centennial metro counties. Within Colorado: #37 of 64 Colorado 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 Colorado.
Universe
Ranked only within the peer sets named on this page: the Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO metropolitan statistical area (CBSA 19740) (10 ranked); Colorado (64 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.