Initial unemployment claims (seasonally adjusted) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly
This series is part of the dataset: Unemployment claims
Download Full Dataset (.xlsx)Latest updates. In the United States, seasonally adjusted jobless claims stood at 0 on 27 September 2025, compared to 219,000 on 20 September. This constitutes a decrease of 100.00 percent.
Sample. The weekly time series displayed in the graph has a total of 3,065 records. The period covered by the series goes from January 1967 to September 2025.
History. Here's a peek at a few statistics we calculated on the entire sample: claims averaged 361,481; they hit a minimum of 0 on 27 September 2025; they reached their maximum of 6,137,000 on 4 April 2020.
Latest values
| Date | Value - Number of persons |
|---|---|
| 2025-09-13 | 232000.0 |
| 2025-09-20 | 219000.0 |
| 2025-09-27 | 0.0 |
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Series Metadata
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Description | Initial unemployment claims (jobless claims) |
| Country | United States |
| Economic concept | Flow |
| Data type | Quantity |
| Deflation method | Not applicable |
| Seasonally adjusted | Yes |
| Rescaling | No |
| Frequency | Weekly |
| Unit | Number of persons |
| Source | U.S. Department of Labor - Employment and Training Administration |
| Source type | Federal Administration |
| Data licence | Unknown |
| Measure type | Level |
Series in the same data set: Unemployment claims
| Series Name | Observations | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Initial unemployment claims (seasonally adjusted) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 3065 | 1967-01-07 | 2025-09-27 |
| Initial unemployment claims (seasonally adjusted; 4-week average) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 3061 | 1967-01-28 | 2025-09-20 |
| Initial unemployment claims (not seasonally adjusted) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 3065 | 1967-01-07 | 2025-09-27 |
| Continued unemployment claims (seasonally adjusted) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 3065 | 1967-01-07 | 2025-09-27 |
| Continued unemployment claims (seasonally adjusted; 4-week average) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 3060 | 1967-01-28 | 2025-09-13 |
| Continued unemployment claims (not seasonally adjusted) - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 3065 | 1967-01-07 | 2025-09-27 |
| Persons covered by unemployment insurance - United States - Department of Labor - Weekly | 2857 | 1971-01-02 | 2025-09-27 |