Table 4. Extent of unemployment during the year by race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, 2020-2021

Table 4. Extent of unemployment during the year by race, Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, and sex, 2020-2021
[Numbers in thousands]
Extent of unemployment, race, and Hispanic or Latino ethnicity	Total		Men		Women
	2020	2021	2020	2021	2020	2021
WHITE
Total who worked or looked for work	130,192	130,965	69,426	70,463	60,766	60,502
Percent with unemployment	14.8	8.8	14.5	9.2	15.1	8.2
Total with unemployment	19,241	11,465	10,090	6,509	9,151	4,956
Did not work but looked for work	1,901	1,823	1,083	952	818	871
Worked during the year	17,340	9,642	9,007	5,557	8,333	4,085
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	16.6	14.9	16.2	15.9	16.9	13.9
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	4.6	3.1	5.2	3.6	4.0	2.5
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	95.4	96.9	94.8	96.4	96.0	97.5
1 to 4 weeks	15.5	21.0	15.8	19.8	15.2	22.6
5 to 14 weeks	27.4	26.3	27.1	24.8	27.7	28.3
15 weeks or more	52.4	49.6	51.8	51.7	53.1	46.6
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	14.3	20.3	14.6	21.6	13.9	18.6
BLACK OR AFRICAN AMERICAN
Total who worked or looked for work	21,541	21,427	10,097	10,133	11,445	11,294
Percent with unemployment	19.4	13.2	21.3	14.1	17.8	12.5
Total with unemployment	4,187	2,833	2,153	1,425	2,035	1,408
Did not work but looked for work	679	620	360	277	320	343
Worked during the year	3,508	2,213	1,793	1,148	1,715	1,065
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	23.1	19.7	22.2	19.1	24.1	20.2
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	2.1	1.4	3.0	1.6	1.1	1.2
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	97.9	98.6	97.0	98.4	98.9	98.8
1 to 4 weeks	11.3	17.8	12.4	15.2	10.2	20.6
5 to 14 weeks	22.2	22.1	21.2	26.0	23.3	18.0
15 weeks or more	64.4	58.7	63.4	57.3	65.4	60.2
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	14.9	19.6	13.9	23.3	16.0	15.7
ASIAN
Total who worked or looked for work	10,762	11,171	5,600	5,802	5,162	5,369
Percent with unemployment	15.9	8.6	14.4	8.9	17.5	8.1
Total with unemployment	1,713	955	808	518	905	437
Did not work but looked for work	222	252	102	133	120	119
Worked during the year	1,491	704	706	385	785	318
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	20.9	18.7	21.1	19.6	20.7	16.9
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	3.5	5.9	2.4	5.1	4.5	6.8
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	96.5	94.1	97.6	94.9	95.5	93.2
1 to 4 weeks	14.3	13.8	15.7	14.6	13.2	12.9
5 to 14 weeks	24.4	23.4	24.7	20.1	24.1	27.4
15 weeks or more	57.8	56.9	57.3	60.2	58.3	52.8
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	8.8	12.3	9.9	13.5	7.8	10.8
HISPANIC OR LATINO ETHNICITY
Total who worked or looked for work	29,993	30,924	16,792	17,422	13,201	13,502
Percent with unemployment	19.6	11.6	19.8	11.9	19.3	11.4
Total with unemployment	5,884	3,603	3,331	2,067	2,553	1,536
Did not work but looked for work	650	611	323	313	327	298
Worked during the year	5,234	2,992	3,009	1,754	2,226	1,238
Median weeks of unemployment for all workers	18.8	16.4	18.1	17.5	19.7	14.7
Percent who worked during the year(1)	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0
Year-round workers(2) with 1 or 2 weeks of unemployment	4.1	4.1	4.6	5.2	3.6	2.5
Part-year workers(3) with unemployment	95.9	95.9	95.4	94.8	96.4	97.5
1 to 4 weeks	15.1	20.0	15.6	18.5	14.4	22.2
5 to 14 weeks	24.8	23.2	24.9	21.1	24.8	26.1
15 weeks or more	56.0	52.7	55.0	55.2	57.3	49.3
With 2 spells or more of unemployment	14.1	19.7	15.4	21.7	12.4	16.9
(1) Time worked includes paid vacation and sick leave. (2) Worked 50 or 51 weeks. (3) Worked less than 50 weeks.
NOTE: Estimates for the above race groups (White, Black or African American, and Asian) do not sum to totals shown in table 3 because data are not presented for all races. Persons whose ethnicity is identified as Hispanic or Latino may be of any race. Updated population controls are introduced annually with the release of January data. Dash indicates no data or data that do not meet publication criteria (values not shown where base is less than 75,000).

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Last Modified Date: December 08, 2022