Georgia Unemployment Rate By County in May, 2020

Updated on April 6, 2023.

The seasonally adjusted Unemployment Rate of Georgia in May, 2020 was 9.7%, according to recent data from the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

The 3 counties with the highest unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) in May, 2020 were:

Clayton: 14.6%
Clay: 14.5%
Chattooga: 13.2%

On the other hand, the 3 counties with the lowest unemployment rate (not seasonally adjusted) in May, 2020 were:

Miller: 3.9%
Charlton: 4.3%
Atkinson: 4.6%

Use the interactive visualization and table below to explore this data for each Georgia county for May, 2020. You can also see links at the bottom of this page for similar data for other months, and also the historical unemployment rate for each of Georgia's counties.

Data Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Georgia Unemployment Rate By County in May, 2020 (%)

Georgia Unemployment Rate By County in May, 2020

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County	Unemployment Rate (%)
Appling	5.7
Atkinson	4.6
Bacon	5.1
Baker	6.7
Baldwin	8.9
Banks	7
Barrow	8.1
Bartow	9.7
Ben Hill	7
Berrien	6.8
Bibb	10.1
Bleckley	7.5
Brantley	7.3
Brooks	6
Bryan	8.1
Bulloch	9.4
Burke	9.2
Butts	8.6
Calhoun	5.8
Camden	6.8
Candler	5.4
Carroll	9.8
Catoosa	6.4
Charlton	4.3
Chatham	12.1
Chattahoochee	8.3
Chattooga	13.2
Cherokee	7.6
Clarke	9.8
Clay	14.5
Clayton	14.6
Clinch	4.7
Cobb	9.1
Coffee	6.7
Colquitt	5.2
Columbia	6
Cook	5.3
Coweta	9.8
Crawford	6.9
Crisp	9.4
Dade	5.7
Dawson	7.4
Decatur	5.3
DeKalb	11.9
Dodge	7
Dooly	10.9
Dougherty	10.6
Douglas	11.2
Early	5.3
Echols	5
Effingham	7.8
Elbert	8.3
Emanuel	7.4
Evans	6.5
Fannin	7
Fayette	8.8
Floyd	9.7
Forsyth	7.6
Franklin	9
Fulton	11.8
Gilmer	7.1
Glascock	5.1
Glynn	11.3
Gordon	7.9
Grady	5.1
Greene	7.5
Gwinnett	10
Habersham	7.9
Hall	7.8
Hancock	10.5
Haralson	9.2
Harris	7.2
Hart	7.2
Heard	9.9
Henry	11.5
Houston	7.1
Irwin	6.2
Jackson	7.4
Jasper	6.9
Jeff Davis	5.8
Jefferson	7.5
Jenkins	8.5
Johnson	5.9
Jones	6.5
Lamar	8.6
Lanier	6.1
Laurens	9.1
Lee	6.4
Liberty	8.4
Lincoln	7
Long	5.5
Lowndes	8.5
Lumpkin	7.7
McDuffie	10.4
McIntosh	7.6
Macon	7.9
Madison	8
Marion	6.6
Meriwether	12.7
Miller	3.9
Mitchell	7
Monroe	7
Montgomery	6.7
Morgan	8.3
Murray	11.3
Muscogee	11.1
Newton	10.4
Oconee	6
Oglethorpe	7.1
Paulding	8
Peach	7.4
Pickens	7
Pierce	5.7
Pike	7.3
Polk	9.4
Pulaski	5.4
Putnam	9.2
Quitman	7.7
Rabun	8.2
Randolph	6.1
Richmond	10.3
Rockdale	11.2
Schley	6.5
Screven	12.4
Seminole	5.5
Spalding	10.3
Stephens	9.6
Stewart	7.1
Sumter	8.3
Talbot	9.7
Taliaferro	8.5
Tattnall	4.7
Taylor	8.1
Telfair	10.1
Terrell	8.4
Thomas	7.8
Tift	6.4
Toombs	8.6
Towns	9.7
Treutlen	7.1
Troup	11.6
Turner	7.8
Twiggs	9.9
Union	6.3
Upson	9.3
Walker	7.4
Walton	8.1
Ware	7
Warren	9.8
Washington	7.3
Wayne	7.1
Webster	6
Wheeler	7.6
White	7.4
Whitfield	11.3
Wilcox	6.3
Wilkes	8
Wilkinson	7
Worth	6.5

Georgia Unemployment Rate For Other Months and Years

Use the following links to see Georgia's unemployment rate for other months and years. Or see links for all the available months and years here.

Historical Unemployment Rate of Georgia's Counties

Use the following links to to see the historical unemployment rate for Georgia's counties.