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Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida, leads large metro areas in over-the-year employment percent gain
January 03, 2017
From November 2015 to November 2016, nonfarm employment rose in 48 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more, and fell in three areas.
12-month employment percent change for large metropolitan areas, November 2016
Metropolitan area
Over-the-year percent change
Over-the-year net change
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
4.5
53,100
Jacksonville, FL
3.6
23,700
Salt Lake City, UT
3.5
24,400
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
3.5
67,000
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
3.3
114,800
San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
3.3
35,300
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
3.1
43,400
St. Louis, MO-IL
3.1
41,500
Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
2.8
26,200
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
2.6
68,200
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
2.6
29,500
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
2.6
33,400
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
2.5
23,500
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
2.5
34,100
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
2.5
56,600
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
2.4
61,900
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
2.2
30,900
Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
2.1
21,600
Austin-Round Rock, TX
2.0
19,500
Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
2.0
19,100
Raleigh, NC
2.0
12,100
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
2.0
65,500
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
1.9
21,900
Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH NECTA
1.8
47,500
Columbus, OH
1.8
19,200
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
1.8
34,400
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
1.7
23,600
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
1.7
103,600
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
1.7
10,900
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
1.6
17,000
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
1.6
15,800
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
1.5
43,600
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
1.4
27,100
Memphis, TN-MS-AR
1.2
7,900
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
1.2
117,300
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
1.1
21,500
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA
1.1
6,300
Kansas City, MO-KS
0.9
9,600
Richmond, VA
0.9
5,800
Birmingham-Hoover, AL
0.8
4,200
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
0.8
37,900
Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
0.7
3,700
Cleveland-Elyria, OH
0.7
7,900
New Orleans-Metairie, LA
0.7
3,800
Pittsburgh, PA
0.7
8,400
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
0.5
16,100
Rochester, NY
0.5
2,800
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA
0.4
2,100
Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
-0.2
-2,000
Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
-0.2
-1,600
Oklahoma City, OK
-0.9
-5,900
The largest over-the-year percentage increase in employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Orlando-Kissimmee Sanford, Florida (4.5 percent or 53,100 jobs), followed by Jacksonville, Florida (3.6 percent or 23,700), and Salt Lake City, Utah (3.5 percent or 24,400), and Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, Washington (3.5 percent or 67,000).
Employment fell over the year in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma (−0.9 percent or 5,900 jobs), Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, Wisconsin (−0.2 percent or 2,000), and Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, Virginia-North Carolina (−0.2 percent or 1,600).
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 — November 2016" (HTML) (PDF).
United States Department of Labor
