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La Paz County · Q3 2026

La Paz shed 261 covered jobs in a year.

Ranked 13 of 15 Arizona counties on the Workforce Resilience Score (38, grade D). Unemployment was 7.4% in Jul 2026, +0.8 pp from a year earlier.

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Where La Paz stands.

Employment and wages 2026 Q1 (preliminary); unemployment Jul 2026, not seasonally adjusted.

6,656

covered jobs · -3.8% y/y

$957

average weekly wage · +1.2% y/y

7.4%

unemployment, Jul 2026 · +0.8 pp y/y

Workforce Resilience Score

Grade D, rank 13 of 15.

Sub-scores are within-Arizona percentiles, 0–100.

24

Current conditions

27

Wages & industry

89

Shock resilience

0

Workforce supply

Against the state

La Paz among Arizona's 15 counties.

  1. 1Maricopa County75B
  2. 2Graham County63C
  3. 3Pima County63C
  4. 4Coconino County62C
  5. 5Pinal County61C
  6. 6Santa Cruz County52C
  7. 7Greenlee County52C
  8. 8Gila County50C
  9. 9Cochise County48C
  10. 10Yuma County41D
  11. 11Yavapai County39D
  12. 12Navajo County39D
  13. 13La Paz County38D
  14. 14Apache County37D
  15. 15Mohave County32D
15 of 15 grades hold under ±25% weight perturbation.

By industry

Every large sector shrank.

Year-over-year change in private-sector jobs, largest sectors in La Paz, 2026 Q1 vs. 2025 Q1.

  • -21
    Administrative & waste services
  • -66
    Retail trade
BLS QCEW, private ownership; suppressed sectors omitted.
How this is calculated, and what it does not say›

Percentile-ranked among Arizona's 15 counties; not comparable to the national ERI. Small counties swing on modest absolute changes.

Sources carry different vintages by design. County LAUS is not seasonally adjusted; wages are nominal; the latest QCEW quarter is preliminary.

Other counties

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