Wisconsin June Jobless Rates Rise Across All 13 Metro Areas and 72 Counties
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Updated · Urban Milwaukee · Jul 20
Wisconsin June Jobless Rates Rise Across All 13 Metro Areas and 72 Counties
1 articles · Updated · Urban Milwaukee · Jul 20
Summary
June 2026 unemployment rates climbed from May in all 13 Wisconsin metropolitan areas, all 35 largest cities and all 72 counties, according to state-released BLS estimates.
Year over year, the picture was weaker in most places: rates rose in 10 metro areas, 23 cities and 44 counties, while holding flat in three metros, six cities and 18 counties.
Fond du Lac, Milwaukee-Waukesha and Sheboygan were the only metro areas with unchanged unemployment rates from a year earlier.
The figures are preliminary and nonseasonally adjusted, offering a broad local snapshot of Wisconsin labor-market conditions in June.