Switzerland - Unemployment rate by canton 2024

In July 2024, the canton of Geneva had the highest unemployment rate in Switzerland at 4.2 percent. In second place followed the canton of Jura with an unemployment rate of four percent. In contrast, the canton of Appenzell Inner Rhodes recorded the lowest unemployment rate among the cantons at only 0.6 percent, while the average unemployment rate in Switzerland was around 2.3 percent.

Unemployment rate in Switzerland in June 2024, by canton

Characteristic	Unemployment rate
Geneva	4.2%
Jura	4%
Basel-Stadt	3.8%
Vaud	3.7%
Neuchâtel	3.6%
Aargau	2.6%
Schaffhausen	2.5%
Ticino	2.4%
Valais	2.4%
Switzerland	2.3%
Solothurn	2.3%
Freiburg	2.2%
Basel-Landschaft	2.2%
Thurgau	2.2%
Zurich	2.1%
Zug	2.1%
St. Gallen	1.8%
Bern	1.7%
Lucerne	1.5%
Appenzell Ausserrhoden	1.3%
Glarus	1.2%
Uri	0.9%
Schwyz	0.9%
Nidwalden	0.8%
Graubünden	0.8%
Obwalden	0.7%
Appenzell Innerrhoden	0.6%

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Release date

August 2024

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Switzerland

Survey time period

July 2024

Supplementary notes

* The State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO) calculates the unemployment rate based on the unemployed persons registered in the regional employment centers on the reference date in relation to the labor force according to the 3-year pooling from 2018 to 2020 of the structural survey data on the working life of the population. Registered unemployed persons are persons who are registered with a regional employment center, do not have a job and can be placed immediately. It is irrelevant whether these persons receive unemployment benefits or not.

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