Source: Local Area Unemployment Statistics * Note: These data represent the 10 counties in Alabama, 34 parishes in Louisiana, 47 counties in Mississippi, and 9 counties in Texas that were designated by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) for both individual and public disaster assistance as of September 30, 2005.
September 2005 labor force, employment, and unemployment, revised, not seasonally adjusted, in Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas (rates in percent), entire State and most affected areas in State State or area The unemployment rate for these most affected areas was 10.5 percent, 5.7 percentage points higher than the 4.8-percent rate for the U.S. In September 2005, the areas most affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita had a labor force of about 3.1 million workers, of whom 324,000 were unemployed. Labor force and unemployment, September 2005 (revised, not seasonally adjusted)
Those data and the data below are not seasonally adjusted therefore, over-the-month comparisons are discouraged. Revised data for August 2005 for areas affected by Katrina and Rita can be found at. Hurricane Rita made landfall after the September reference periods for the Current Population Survey and the Current Employment Statistics program, which provide inputs for LAUS estimation. This page presents a summary of those September data along with October data, and links to detailed county data. The data for September 2005 were the first from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program to reflect the impact of Hurricane Katrina, which struck the Gulf Coast on August 29 with catastrophic effects in parts of Alabama, Louisiana, and Mississippi.
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