Jobless Rates Up Over the Year in All Oklahoma Counties in May

In May, Love County posted Oklahoma’s highest county unemployment rate of 7.0 percent. Hughes County reported the second-highest rate for the month. Dewey County reported the lowest unemployment rate of 2.6 percent in May. Unemployment rates in May were higher than a year earlier in all of Oklahoma’s 77 counties.

Read the full May 2026 Metro Area and County Employment and Unemployment Report