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Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, Kentucky Unemployment

The BLS reported that the unemployment rate for Elizabethtown fell 0.0 percentage points in May 2023 to 4.0%. For the same month, the metro unemployment rate was 0.2 percentage points higher than the Kentucky rate. The unemployment rate in Elizabethtown peaked in April 2020 at 18.7% and is now 14.7 percentage points lower. From a post peak low of 4.0% in April 2023, the unemployment rate has now grown by 0.0 percentage points. You can also compare Elizabethtown unemployment with unemployment in other cities.

Unemployment Rate May 2023 Month/Month Year/Year
National 3.7% +0.3 +0.1
Kentucky 3.8% +0.1 0.0
Elizabethtown 4.0% 0.0 -0.1
Note: Metro level data is now seasonally adjusted.1 All comparisons are made with May 2023 data as June metro level unemployment data has not yet been released.

Unemployment Rate: Elizabethtown, Kentucky, National

Elizabethtown, Kentucky monthly unemployment rate chart

Note: Recessions shown in gray.

Elizabethtown, Kentucky Unemployed

The number of people unemployed in Elizabethtown peaked in April 2020 at 12,757. There are now 10,191 fewer people unemployed in the metropolitan area.

Unemployed Persons May 2023 Month/Month Year/Year
Elizabethtown 2,566 -6 -118

Number of Unemployed Persons

Elizabethtown, Kentucky Unemployment History

Date National
Unemployment Rate
Kentucky
Unemployment Rate
Elizabethtown
Unemployment Rate
Elizabethtown
Unemployed
June
2023
3.6%
May
2023
3.7% 3.8% 4.0% 2,566
April
2023
3.4% 3.7% 4.0% 2,572
March
2023
3.5% 3.8% 4.1% 2,621
February
2023
3.6% 3.9% 4.2% 2,708
January
2023
3.4% 3.9% 4.2% 2,669
December
2022
3.5% 3.9% 4.2% 2,677
November
2022
3.6% 3.9% 4.2% 2,679
October
2022
3.7% 4.0% 4.2% 2,693
September
2022
3.5% 4.0% 4.2% 2,705
August
2022
3.7% 4.0% 4.2% 2,709
July
2022
3.5% 3.9% 4.2% 2,704

1. Metro area unemployment rates are now seasonally adjusted. The BLS has started publishing smoothed seasonally adjusted metropolitan area data which makes comparisons to state and national data more relevant than the unadjusted numbers.