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Navajo County · Q3 2026

Navajo shed 1,078 covered jobs in a year.

Ranked 12 of 15 Arizona counties on the Workforce Resilience Score (39, grade D). Unemployment was 7.7% in Jul 2026, +0.5 pp from a year earlier.

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Where Navajo stands.

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

27K

covered jobs · -3.8% y/y

$968

average weekly wage · +1.7% y/y

7.7%

unemployment, Jul 2026 · +0.5 pp y/y

Workforce Resilience Score

Grade D, rank 12 of 15.

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

44

Current conditions

16

Wages & industry

61

Shock resilience

36

Workforce supply

Against the state

Navajo 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

Construction led.

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

  • Construction
    +186
  • Health care & social assistance
    +57
  • Retail trade
    +38
  • Educational services
    +12
  • -168
    Accommodation & food services
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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