Where unemployment is lowest across the Houston metro

the Houston metro · Data as of · ALEX Intelligence

4.1% county unemployment rate (September 2026) — Austin County
#CountyUnemployment rate
1Austin County4.1%
2Montgomery County4.3%
3Fort Bend County4.5%
4Galveston County4.6%
5Harris County4.6%
6Brazoria County4.8%
7Chambers County4.9%
8Waller County5.1%
9San Jacinto County5.3%
10Liberty County5.5%

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
Unemployment rate, ranked lowest first across Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Montgomery, San Jacinto, Waller, 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
Reproduce this query
https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v2/timeseries/data/LAUCN480150000000003?startyear=2024&endyear=2026

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