Beware The Counties With The Highest Unemployment In Arkansas

Arkansas Unemployment Rate for December 2023
Agriculture Production Figures
County-by-County Unemployment Rate

The unemployment rate for the State of Arkansas had a pretty good year in 2023, the overall statewide rate finished the year at 3.4% in December, almost a full point higher than the lowest rate during the year at 2.6% in July, according to the United States Bureau of Labor Statistics.

If you live and work in Arkansas, or you're planning a move to the Natural State soon, you might be interested to know how each county in the state performed. We have the 50 worst-performing Arkansas Counties listed below.

Did You Know:

Cotton, Rice, Soybean, Chicken - Canva

The #1 industry overall in Arkansas is agriculture. The state is listed as a major exporter of rice, soybeans, cotton, feed grains, and, of course, poultry.

Rice - Canva

The great state of Arkansas, with its 14.5 million acres of workable farmland, ranks #1 in rice production in the United States.

Cotton - Canva

3rd in the US in cotton production.

Feeding the chickens - canva

According to the Farm Bureau, Arkansas is one of the top producers in the Nation in poultry, with over 5.5 Billion pounds of broiler meat per year, and over 300 million eggs produced per month. All this with 97% of the state's over 49,000 farms being family-owned.

LOOK: Counties With the Highest Unemployment in Arkansas

Stacker compiled a list of the counties with the highest unemployment in Arkansas using data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Counties are ranked by unemployment rate in November 2023.

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