2024 Unemployment Rate Usa Graph. The national unemployment rate in september was 3.9 percent, up from 3.6 percent a year earlier. Bureau of labor statistics (bls) for the current population survey [household labor force survey] release.

The economy expanded at a robust pace in the third quarter, continuing several years of solid growth, and the unemployment rate has. This bucked the overall unemployment rate, which held steady at 4.1%.