Statewide avg
All 159 counties, unweighted
Lowest county
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Counties tracked
159
All Georgia counties
Vintage
12 mo
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Data source
BLS LAUS
Local Area Unemp Stats

Unemployment by County — 12-Month Animation

Each county shaded by its monthly unemployment rate. Click ▶ Play or drag the slider.

Color scale uses a global min/max across all 12 frames so colors stay comparable as you scrub through time.

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All 159 counties

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Appling Atkinson Bacon Baker Albany Baldwin Banks Barrow Atlanta Bartow Atlanta Ben Hill Berrien Bibb Macon Bleckley Brantley Brunswick Brooks Valdosta Bryan Savannah Bulloch Burke Augusta Butts Atlanta Calhoun Camden Candler Carroll Atlanta Catoosa Charlton Chatham Savannah Chattahoochee Columbus Chattooga Cherokee Atlanta Clarke Athens Clay Clayton Atlanta Clinch Cobb Atlanta Coffee Colquitt Columbia Augusta Cook Coweta Atlanta Crawford Macon Crisp Dade Dawson Atlanta DeKalb Atlanta Decatur Dodge Dooly Dougherty Albany Douglas Atlanta Early Echols Valdosta Effingham Savannah Elbert Emanuel Evans Fannin Fayette Atlanta Floyd Rome Forsyth Atlanta Franklin Fulton Atlanta Gilmer Glascock Glynn Brunswick Gordon Grady Greene Gwinnett Atlanta Habersham Hall Gainesville Hancock Haralson Atlanta Harris Columbus Hart Heard Atlanta Henry Atlanta Houston Warner Robins Irwin Jackson Jasper Atlanta Jeff Davis Jefferson Jenkins Johnson Jones Macon Lamar Atlanta Lanier Valdosta Laurens Lee Albany Liberty Hinesville Lincoln Augusta Long Hinesville Lowndes Valdosta Lumpkin Macon Madison Athens Marion Columbus McDuffie Augusta McIntosh Brunswick Meriwether Atlanta Miller Mitchell Monroe Macon Montgomery Morgan Atlanta Murray Dalton Muscogee Columbus Newton Atlanta Oconee Athens Oglethorpe Athens Paulding Atlanta Peach Warner Robins Pickens Atlanta Pierce Pike Atlanta Polk Pulaski Warner Robins Putnam Quitman Rabun Randolph Richmond Augusta Rockdale Atlanta Schley Screven Seminole Spalding Atlanta Stephens Stewart Columbus Sumter Talbot Columbus Taliaferro Tattnall Taylor Telfair Terrell Albany Thomas Tift Toombs Towns Treutlen Troup Turner Twiggs Macon Union Upson Walker Walton Atlanta Ware Warren Washington Wayne Webster Wheeler White Whitfield Dalton Wilcox Wilkes Wilkinson Worth Albany