West Arapahoe News

Arapahoe County recorded an unemployment rate of 4.5% among residents aged 16 and 65 years old in 2021. That’s 16,779 people out of the 651,621 living in Arapahoe County at the time, according to data obtained from the U.S. Census Bureau.

The unemployment rate in Arapahoe County has increased compared to the 4.3% registered in 2020.

The percentage of people unemployed in Arapahoe County was less than the statewide unemployment rate of 4.6%.

Of the 353,149 people who had a job during that time, 2,032 were employed in the Armed Forces and 351,117 belonged to the civilian labor force.

Employment status	Number of people	Percentage of population
Unemployed	16,779	4.5%
Employed	353,149	95.5%
Employed in civilian labor force	351,117	94.9%
Employed in armed forces	2,032	0.5%