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Employment up in 38 metro areas, down in 1 area, over the year ended January 2025

April 01, 2025

From January 2024 to January 2025, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 38 metropolitan areas, decreased in 1 area, and was essentially unchanged in 348 areas. The largest over-the-year percentage gains in employment occurred in Barnstable Town, Massachusetts (6.1 percent), Napa, California (5.7 percent), and Rochester, Minnesota (5.3 percent). Employment decreased over the year in Yuma, Arizona (4.1 percent).
Change in nonfarm employment by metropolitan area, January 2024 to January 2025
Metropolitan area January 2024 employment January 2025 employment Percent change Statistically significant?

Anniston-Oxford, AL

 46,500 46,800 0.6 No

Auburn-Opelika, AL

 78,700 80,000 1.7 No

Birmingham, AL

 563,500 564,900 0.2 No

Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL

 87,300 89,200 2.2 No

Decatur, AL

 60,300 62,200 3.2 No

Dothan, AL

 62,100 62,400 0.5 No

Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL

 57,900 59,600 2.9 No

Gadsden, AL

 34,300 34,700 1.2 No

Huntsville, AL

 279,800 287,400 2.7 Yes

Mobile, AL

 187,800 190,400 1.4 No

Montgomery, AL

 183,500 186,000 1.4 No

Tuscaloosa, AL

 115,900 116,800 0.8 No

Anchorage, AK

 174,100 178,700 2.6 Yes

Fairbanks-College, AK

 36,000 37,600 4.4 Yes

Flagstaff, AZ

 70,300 71,100 1.1 No

Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ

 57,400 56,800 -1.0 No

Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

 2,450,700 2,456,100 0.2 No

Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ

 72,100 71,300 -1.1 No

Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ

 35,300 34,400 -2.5 No

Tucson, AZ

 404,400 398,000 -1.6 No

Yuma, AZ

 63,900 61,300 -4.1 Yes

Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR

 298,800 307,500 2.9 Yes

Fort Smith, AR-OK

 101,900 102,700 0.8 No

Hot Springs, AR

 40,500 40,200 -0.7 No

Jonesboro, AR

 64,000 64,700 1.1 No

Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR

 389,800 397,600 2.0 No

Bakersfield-Delano, CA

 291,700 294,500 1.0 No

Chico, CA

 76,700 78,500 2.3 No

El Centro, CA

 58,900 59,200 0.5 No

Fresno, CA

 430,200 441,500 2.6 Yes

Hanford-Corcoran, CA

 43,300 43,700 0.9 No

Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

 6,258,000 6,233,700 -0.4 No

Merced, CA

 72,100 73,900 2.5 No

Modesto, CA

 187,700 192,200 2.4 No

Napa, CA

 72,200 76,300 5.7 Yes

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA

 314,900 313,200 -0.5 No

Redding, CA

 70,200 71,100 1.3 No

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA

 1,699,100 1,701,600 0.1 No

Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA

 1,077,500 1,085,900 0.8 No

Salinas, CA

 144,200 147,600 2.4 No

San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

 1,550,000 1,553,300 0.2 No

San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

 2,435,900 2,418,000 -0.7 No

San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

 1,148,500 1,145,000 -0.3 No

San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA

 116,200 116,900 0.6 No

Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA

 98,100 99,600 1.5 No

Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

 185,200 186,400 0.6 No

Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA

 201,500 201,700 0.1 No

Stockton-Lodi, CA

 275,000 279,600 1.7 No

Vallejo, CA

 143,400 142,800 -0.4 No

Visalia, CA

 143,500 145,200 1.2 No

Yuba City, CA

 50,000 52,400 4.8 Yes

Boulder, CO

 204,900 205,100 0.1 No

Colorado Springs, CO

 325,900 329,900 1.2 No

Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

 1,605,300 1,619,800 0.9 No

Fort Collins-Loveland, CO

 185,000 183,700 -0.7 No

Grand Junction, CO

 66,200 67,600 2.1 No

Greeley, CO

 113,800 116,500 2.4 No

Pueblo, CO

 63,300 63,000 -0.5 No

Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT

 399,100 403,400 1.1 No

Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

 598,900 602,000 0.5 No

New Haven, CT

 288,200 290,000 0.6 No

Norwich-New London-Willimantic, CT

 124,800 126,900 1.7 No

Waterbury-Shelton, CT

 158,400 160,100 1.1 No

Dover, DE

 72,100 72,200 0.1 No

Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

 3,333,700 3,365,200 0.9 No

Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

 313,600 313,900 0.1 No

Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL

 126,600 130,000 2.7 No

Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL

 226,300 228,100 0.8 No

Gainesville, FL

 164,400 167,000 1.6 No

Homosassa Springs, FL

 35,900 36,000 0.3 No

Jacksonville, FL

 795,100 806,900 1.5 No

Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL

 274,600 277,300 1.0 No

Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL

 2,944,100 2,980,500 1.2 Yes

Naples-Marco Island, FL

 178,500 178,200 -0.2 No

North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL

 349,600 354,100 1.3 No

Ocala, FL

 121,800 124,200 2.0 No

Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL

 1,480,900 1,513,000 2.2 Yes

Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL

 255,700 259,000 1.3 No

Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL

 88,200 90,700 2.8 No

Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL

 198,500 201,000 1.3 No

Port St. Lucie, FL

 173,100 176,700 2.1 No

Punta Gorda, FL

 58,300 58,800 0.9 No

Sebastian-Vero Beach-West Vero Corridor, FL

 59,900 59,500 -0.7 No

Sebring, FL

 28,200 28,700 1.8 No

Tallahassee, FL

 199,400 203,100 1.9 No

Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

 1,538,300 1,551,700 0.9 No

Wildwood-The Villages, FL

 40,600 41,900 3.2 No

Albany, GA

 61,500 60,900 -1.0 No

Athens-Clarke County, GA

 102,400 105,500 3.0 Yes

Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA

 3,063,800 3,086,900 0.8 No

Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC

 243,800 244,900 0.5 No

Brunswick-St. Simons, GA

 47,700 48,700 2.1 No

Columbus, GA-AL

 120,900 121,900 0.8 No

Dalton, GA

 68,400 68,400 0.0 No

Gainesville, GA

 106,200 107,600 1.3 No

Hinesville, GA

 21,600 21,800 0.9 No

Macon-Bibb County, GA

 98,800 99,400 0.6 No

Rome, GA

 46,500 47,300 1.7 No

Savannah, GA

 203,800 205,700 0.9 No

Valdosta, GA

 56,500 56,600 0.2 No

Warner Robins, GA

 78,500 79,300 1.0 No

Kahului-Wailuku, HI

 72,200 73,600 1.9 No

Urban Honolulu, HI

 454,400 463,600 2.0 Yes

Boise City, ID

 392,100 406,400 3.6 Yes

Coeur d'Alene, ID

 71,000 74,600 5.1 Yes

Idaho Falls, ID

 80,600 82,800 2.7 No

Lewiston, ID-WA

 29,700 30,000 1.0 No

Pocatello, ID

 39,800 40,300 1.3 No

Twin Falls, ID

 49,300 50,700 2.8 No

Bloomington, IL

 93,200 93,200 0.0 No

Champaign-Urbana, IL

 116,500 115,300 -1.0 No

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

 4,622,200 4,647,500 0.5 No

Decatur, IL

 46,700 46,400 -0.6 No

Kankakee, IL

 42,300 42,100 -0.5 No

Peoria, IL

 167,300 170,300 1.8 No

Rockford, IL

 142,600 144,800 1.5 No

Springfield, IL

 109,100 109,900 0.7 No

Bloomington, IN

 81,000 81,200 0.2 No

Columbus, IN

 51,800 51,100 -1.4 No

Elkhart-Goshen, IN

 131,100 130,000 -0.8 No

Evansville, IN

 138,700 139,000 0.2 No

Fort Wayne, IN

 232,600 234,500 0.8 No

Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN

 1,148,100 1,153,200 0.4 No

Kokomo, IN

 36,800 36,900 0.3 No

Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN

 111,400 110,600 -0.7 No

Michigan City-La Porte, IN

 41,700 41,500 -0.5 No

Muncie, IN

 48,000 49,100 2.3 No

South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI

 136,900 139,700 2.0 No

Terre Haute, IN

 66,500 67,000 0.8 No

Ames, IA

 60,100 63,200 5.2 Yes

Cedar Rapids, IA

 138,000 137,200 -0.6 No

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL

 178,600 177,900 -0.4 No

Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA

 403,800 404,500 0.2 No

Dubuque, IA

 58,900 59,500 1.0 No

Iowa City, IA

 100,000 102,200 2.2 No

Sioux City, IA-NE-SD

 74,200 74,000 -0.3 No

Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA

 86,000 85,900 -0.1 No

Lawrence, KS

 53,200 53,500 0.6 No

Manhattan, KS

 54,300 54,900 1.1 No

Topeka, KS

 112,000 113,500 1.3 No

Wichita, KS

 308,700 309,600 0.3 No

Bowling Green, KY

 80,400 82,400 2.5 No

Elizabethtown, KY

 53,300 52,100 -2.3 No

Lexington-Fayette, KY

 294,600 297,700 1.1 No

Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN

 707,300 706,900 -0.1 No

Owensboro, KY

 48,900 50,200 2.7 No

Paducah, KY-IL

 50,200 50,700 1.0 No

Alexandria, LA

 61,100 61,800 1.1 No

Baton Rouge, LA

 424,400 431,400 1.6 No

Hammond, LA

 50,100 51,300 2.4 No

Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA

 84,900 85,700 0.9 No

Lafayette, LA

 181,900 184,600 1.5 No

Lake Charles, LA

 102,000 103,000 1.0 No

Monroe, LA

 90,400 91,200 0.9 No

New Orleans-Metairie, LA

 468,900 476,000 1.5 No

Shreveport-Bossier City, LA

 166,600 168,500 1.1 No

Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA

 99,900 101,100 1.2 No

Bangor, ME

 72,200 72,500 0.4 No

Lewiston-Auburn, ME

 50,000 49,000 -2.0 No

Portland-South Portland, ME

 283,900 286,400 0.9 No

Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD

 1,440,800 1,433,000 -0.5 No

Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV

 110,400 110,300 -0.1 No

Lexington Park, MD

 73,700 74,400 0.9 No

Salisbury, MD

 56,600 56,100 -0.9 No

Amherst Town-Northampton, MA

 69,300 70,600 1.9 No

Barnstable Town, MA

 85,900 91,100 6.1 Yes

Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

 2,714,600 2,718,400 0.1 No

Pittsfield, MA

 57,800 56,800 -1.7 No

Springfield, MA

 203,500 204,600 0.5 No

Worcester, MA

 355,100 354,800 -0.1 No

Ann Arbor, MI

 227,600 231,400 1.7 No

Battle Creek, MI

 56,000 57,300 2.3 No

Bay City, MI

 34,800 35,300 1.4 No

Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI

 2,020,400 2,025,700 0.3 No

Flint, MI

 137,700 140,300 1.9 No

Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI

 596,000 598,200 0.4 No

Jackson, MI

 57,600 57,700 0.2 No

Kalamazoo-Portage, MI

 129,600 131,100 1.2 No

Lansing-East Lansing, MI

 234,000 239,300 2.3 No

Midland, MI

 39,300 40,600 3.3 No

Monroe, MI

 43,100 43,300 0.5 No

Muskegon-Norton Shores, MI

 64,000 64,900 1.4 No

Niles, MI

 61,200 62,300 1.8 No

Saginaw, MI

 82,200 82,700 0.6 No

Traverse City, MI

 67,300 69,800 3.7 No

Duluth, MN-WI

 130,700 132,300 1.2 No

Mankato, MN

 57,500 57,700 0.3 No

Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

 1,946,900 1,964,600 0.9 No

Rochester, MN

 122,900 129,400 5.3 Yes

St. Cloud, MN

 106,500 107,500 0.9 No

Gulfport-Biloxi, MS

 167,900 169,700 1.1 No

Hattiesburg, MS

 68,100 67,800 -0.4 No

Jackson, MS

 297,100 303,300 2.1 No

Cape Girardeau, MO-IL

 46,000 46,200 0.4 No

Columbia, MO

 114,200 115,300 1.0 No

Jefferson City, MO

 80,400 82,700 2.9 No

Joplin, MO-KS

 89,100 89,700 0.7 No

Kansas City, MO-KS

 1,123,000 1,124,400 0.1 No

St. Joseph, MO-KS

 55,300 56,500 2.2 No

St. Louis, MO-IL

 1,407,800 1,404,200 -0.3 No

Springfield, MO

 229,100 233,600 2.0 No

Billings, MT

 92,800 93,800 1.1 No

Bozeman, MT

 74,300 74,200 -0.1 No

Great Falls, MT

 37,100 37,100 0.0 No

Helena, MT

 43,600 44,100 1.1 No

Missoula, MT

 67,600 68,800 1.8 No

Grand Island, NE

 39,900 40,000 0.3 No

Lincoln, NE

 189,800 194,500 2.5 Yes

Omaha, NE-IA

 502,500 508,200 1.1 No

Carson City, NV

 31,300 32,000 2.2 No

Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV

 1,130,900 1,138,700 0.7 No

Reno, NV

 272,300 277,600 1.9 No

Manchester-Nashua, NH

 204,600 205,500 0.4 No

Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ

 159,300 166,700 4.6 Yes

Trenton-Princeton, NJ

 288,200 291,600 1.2 No

Vineland, NJ

 59,300 61,200 3.2 No

Albuquerque, NM

 415,100 423,800 2.1 Yes

Farmington, NM

 46,800 47,300 1.1 No

Las Cruces, NM

 79,900 80,000 0.1 No

Santa Fe, NM

 61,600 63,400 2.9 No

Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY

 459,800 466,700 1.5 No

Binghamton, NY

 97,600 97,700 0.1 No

Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

 541,300 551,800 1.9 Yes

Elmira, NY

 34,500 34,500 0.0 No

Glens Falls, NY

 50,900 51,300 0.8 No

Ithaca, NY

 50,100 51,100 2.0 No

Kingston, NY

 58,000 59,400 2.4 No

Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY

 270,800 274,200 1.3 No

New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

 9,722,400 9,910,500 1.9 Yes

Rochester, NY

 503,700 510,900 1.4 No

Syracuse, NY

 306,200 312,700 2.1 Yes

Utica-Rome, NY

 120,200 120,500 0.2 No

Watertown-Fort Drum, NY

 39,300 40,300 2.5 No

Asheville, NC

 188,400 187,800 -0.3 No

Burlington, NC

 68,700 69,800 1.6 No

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

 1,356,500 1,379,500 1.7 Yes

Durham-Chapel Hill, NC

 346,400 351,700 1.5 No

Fayetteville, NC

 135,900 134,700 -0.9 No

Goldsboro, NC

 41,300 42,900 3.9 No

Greensboro-High Point, NC

 362,900 364,100 0.3 No

Greenville, NC

 82,800 83,000 0.2 No

Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC

 156,700 157,200 0.3 No

Jacksonville, NC

 55,000 55,200 0.4 No

Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC

 40,000 40,800 2.0 No

Raleigh-Cary, NC

 733,600 748,300 2.0 Yes

Rocky Mount, NC

 55,000 54,900 -0.2 No

Wilmington, NC

 184,900 189,400 2.4 No

Winston-Salem, NC

 276,300 279,900 1.3 No

Bismarck, ND

 71,100 72,700 2.3 No

Fargo, ND-MN

 149,400 150,000 0.4 No

Grand Forks, ND-MN

 54,500 55,800 2.4 No

Minot, ND

 34,400 34,000 -1.2 No

Akron, OH

 333,700 333,600 0.0 No

Canton-Massillon, OH

 169,500 170,500 0.6 No

Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN

 1,139,400 1,139,100 0.0 No

Cleveland, OH

 1,075,200 1,071,400 -0.4 No

Columbus, OH

 1,148,300 1,149,100 0.1 No

Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH

 390,200 390,500 0.1 No

Lima, OH

 51,700 51,500 -0.4 No

Mansfield, OH

 50,600 50,700 0.2 No

Sandusky, OH

 47,200 50,100 6.1 No

Springfield, OH

 48,300 47,400 -1.9 No

Toledo, OH

 300,500 301,700 0.4 No

Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH

 38,000 37,000 -2.6 No

Youngstown-Warren, OH

 164,300 164,400 0.1 No

Enid, OK

 24,100 24,100 0.0 No

Lawton, OK

 43,700 44,300 1.4 No

Oklahoma City, OK

 693,900 705,000 1.6 No

Tulsa, OK

 470,600 477,900 1.6 No

Albany, OR

 47,100 47,500 0.8 No

Bend, OR

 107,200 110,200 2.8 No

Corvallis, OR

 44,300 44,200 -0.2 No

Eugene-Springfield, OR

 161,400 163,500 1.3 No

Grants Pass, OR

 26,700 26,700 0.0 No

Medford, OR

 88,900 89,100 0.2 No

Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA

 1,228,100 1,231,100 0.2 No

Salem, OR

 180,400 186,000 3.1 Yes

Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ

 387,500 394,700 1.9 No

Altoona, PA

 59,700 61,200 2.5 No

Chambersburg, PA

 60,500 62,600 3.5 No

Erie, PA

 123,000 125,100 1.7 No

Gettysburg, PA

 32,500 33,200 2.2 No

Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA

 357,600 363,800 1.7 No

Johnstown, PA

 50,600 50,300 -0.6 No

Lancaster, PA

 260,300 263,300 1.2 No

Lebanon, PA

 55,200 57,000 3.3 No

Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD

 3,048,300 3,082,300 1.1 Yes

Pittsburgh, PA

 1,179,600 1,185,900 0.5 No

Reading, PA

 178,700 182,100 1.9 No

Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA

 262,300 266,300 1.5 No

State College, PA

 77,900 78,000 0.1 No

Williamsport, PA

 51,900 52,600 1.3 No

York-Hanover, PA

 192,100 192,600 0.3 No

Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

 718,600 720,900 0.3 No

Charleston-North Charleston, SC

 413,200 424,200 2.7 Yes

Columbia, SC

 423,400 431,600 1.9 No

Florence, SC

 95,100 96,600 1.6 No

Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC

 463,900 470,200 1.4 No

Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC

 84,500 87,900 4.0 No

Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC

 145,200 149,500 3.0 No

Spartanburg, SC

 173,700 178,600 2.8 No

Sumter, SC

 37,700 38,100 1.1 No

Rapid City, SD

 71,400 73,600 3.1 No

Sioux Falls, SD-MN

 174,800 177,200 1.4 No

Chattanooga, TN-GA

 289,800 291,500 0.6 No

Clarksville, TN-KY

 105,000 107,100 2.0 No

Cleveland, TN

 46,800 46,000 -1.7 No

Jackson, TN

 87,100 87,700 0.7 No

Johnson City, TN

 85,700 85,700 0.0 No

Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA

 123,800 124,300 0.4 No

Knoxville, TN

 440,500 445,400 1.1 No

Memphis, TN-MS-AR

 656,900 650,200 -1.0 No

Morristown, TN

 49,400 50,300 1.8 No

Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN

 1,166,800 1,173,200 0.5 No

Abilene, TX

 77,000 78,600 2.1 No

Amarillo, TX

 127,000 129,800 2.2 No

Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

 1,336,100 1,358,400 1.7 No

Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX

 164,000 168,800 2.9 No

Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

 160,300 163,200 1.8 No

College Station-Bryan, TX

 137,500 143,700 4.5 Yes

Corpus Christi, TX

 195,600 196,900 0.7 No

Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

 4,207,100 4,260,300 1.3 Yes

Eagle Pass, TX

 18,100 18,900 4.4 Yes

El Paso, TX

 347,500 355,100 2.2 No

Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

 3,382,000 3,438,500 1.7 Yes

Killeen-Temple, TX

 154,200 154,000 -0.1 No

Laredo, TX

 111,100 113,800 2.4 No

Longview, TX

 121,100 121,300 0.2 No

Lubbock, TX

 171,200 173,800 1.5 No

McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX

 299,500 303,600 1.4 No

Midland, TX

 122,700 125,000 1.9 No

Odessa, TX

 81,300 82,900 2.0 No

San Angelo, TX

 53,200 54,100 1.7 No

San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

 1,164,600 1,186,600 1.9 Yes

Sherman-Denison, TX

 53,200 53,300 0.2 No

Texarkana, TX-AR

 59,700 60,600 1.5 No

Tyler, TX

 116,000 118,000 1.7 No

Victoria, TX

 39,800 39,900 0.3 No

Waco, TX

 139,900 143,200 2.4 No

Wichita Falls, TX

 59,300 59,100 -0.3 No

Logan, UT-ID

 70,300 72,100 2.6 No

Ogden, UT

 265,600 271,300 2.1 No

Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT

 310,700 315,900 1.7 No

St. George, UT

 84,100 88,000 4.6 Yes

Salt Lake City-Murray, UT

 816,300 827,800 1.4 No

Burlington-South Burlington, VT

 121,700 123,500 1.5 No

Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA

 80,900 80,900 0.0 No

Charlottesville, VA

 120,600 124,600 3.3 Yes

Harrisonburg, VA

 70,700 70,600 -0.1 No

Lynchburg, VA

 102,900 103,700 0.8 No

Richmond, VA

 707,100 719,000 1.7 No

Roanoke, VA

 164,100 166,800 1.6 No

Staunton-Stuarts Draft, VA

 53,500 53,600 0.2 No

Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

 808,800 819,400 1.3 No

Winchester, VA-WV

 71,800 72,900 1.5 No

Bellingham, WA

 95,200 96,300 1.2 No

Bremerton-Silverdale-Port Orchard, WA

 95,000 97,000 2.1 No

Kennewick-Richland, WA

 123,200 128,500 4.3 Yes

Longview-Kelso, WA

 41,300 42,200 2.2 No

Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA

 51,100 53,300 4.3 No

Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA

 129,400 133,900 3.5 Yes

Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

 2,102,400 2,136,800 1.6 Yes

Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA

 259,600 262,800 1.2 No

Walla Walla, WA

 26,700 28,000 4.9 Yes

Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA

 47,300 48,500 2.5 No

Yakima, WA

 88,100 89,900 2.0 No

Beckley, WV

 43,700 43,500 -0.5 No

Charleston, WV

 106,700 106,100 -0.6 No

Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH

 141,900 142,000 0.1 No

Morgantown, WV

 71,300 70,900 -0.6 No

Parkersburg-Vienna, WV

 37,700 37,800 0.3 No

Wheeling, WV-OH

 59,700 60,300 1.0 No

Appleton, WI

 127,100 128,000 0.7 No

Eau Claire, WI

 87,000 88,400 1.6 No

Fond du Lac, WI

 46,000 45,800 -0.4 No

Green Bay, WI

 175,900 179,500 2.0 No

Janesville-Beloit, WI

 70,400 71,600 1.7 No

Kenosha, WI

 76,800 77,200 0.5 No

La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN

 84,500 86,000 1.8 No

Madison, WI

 417,100 422,900 1.4 No

Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

 847,500 848,800 0.2 No

Oshkosh-Neenah, WI

 96,400 95,800 -0.6 No

Racine-Mount Pleasant, WI

 78,700 77,600 -1.4 No

Sheboygan, WI

 61,900 62,800 1.5 No

Wausau, WI

 71,800 71,300 -0.7 No

Casper, WY

 39,300 39,800 1.3 No

Cheyenne, WY

 47,900 48,100 0.4 No

An additional 10 metro areas had employment increases of at least 4.0 percent: Ames, Iowa (5.2 percent), Coeur d’Alene, Idaho (5.1 percent), Walla Walla, Washington (4.9 percent), Yuba City, California (4.8 percent), Atlantic City-Hammonton, New Jersey, and St. George, Utah (4.6 percent each), College Station-Bryan, Texas (4.5 percent), Fairbanks-College, Alaska, and Eagle Pass, Texas (4.4 percent each), and Kennewick-Richland, Washington (4.3 percent).

Employment increased in 13 metropolitan areas with a 2020 Census population of 1 million or more and was essentially unchanged in 43 areas. The largest over-the-year percentage increases in employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Fresno, California (2.6 percent), and Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida (2.2 percent), followed by Raleigh-Cary, North Carolina, and Urban Honolulu, Hawaii (2.0 percent each).

These data are from the Current Employment Statistics (State and Metro Area) program and are not seasonally adjusted. Data for the most recent month are preliminary. To learn more, see "Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment — January 2025." Also see charts related to the latest "Metropolitan Area Employment and Unemployment" news release.

SUGGESTED CITATION

Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, The Economics Daily, Employment up in 38 metro areas, down in 1 area, over the year ended January 2025 at https://www.bls.gov/opub/ted/2025/employment-up-in-38-metro-areas-down-in-1-area-over-the-year-ended-january-2025.htm (visited May 02, 2025).

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