June 08, 2016
From April 2015 to April 2016, nonfarm payroll employment increased in 327 metropolitan areas, decreased in 54 areas, and was unchanged in 6 areas. The largest over-the-year employment increases occurred in New York-Newark-Jersey City, New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania (+173,900), Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, California (+155,000), and Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Texas (+130,600). The largest over-the-year percentage gain in employment occurred in Madera, California (+7.7 percent), followed by St. George, Utah (+7.0 percent), and Bend-Redmond, Oregon (+6.3 percent).
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Over-the-year change in metropolitan area employment, April 2015–April 2016 Metropolitan area Over-the-year change(p) Abilene, TX
1,000 Akron, OH
5,100 Albany, GA
1,200 Albany, OR
900 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY
-1,100 Albuquerque, NM
4,700 Alexandria, LA
300 Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ
2,200 Altoona, PA
900 Amarillo, TX
2,600 Ames, IA
800 Anchorage, AK
-900 Ann Arbor, MI
11,100 Anniston-Oxford-Jacksonville, AL
100 Appleton, WI
1,300 Asheville, NC
3,700 Athens-Clarke County, GA
4,100 Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA
83,300 Atlantic City-Hammonton, NJ
300 Auburn-Opelika, AL
1,500 Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC
2,000 Austin-Round Rock, TX
38,300 Bakersfield, CA
5,200 Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD
30,200 Bangor, ME NECTA
-500 Barnstable Town, MA NECTA
2,900 Baton Rouge, LA
11,600 Battle Creek, MI
600 Bay City, MI
100 Beaumont-Port Arthur, TX
1,500 Beckley, WV
-700 Bellingham, WA
2,000 Bend-Redmond, OR
4,600 Billings, MT
1,700 Binghamton, NY
-600 Birmingham-Hoover, AL
4,800 Bismarck, ND
-400 Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA
700 Bloomington, IL
-2,600 Bloomington, IN
200 Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA
600 Boise City, ID
11,800 Boston-Cambridge-Nashua, MA-NH NECTA
43,900 Boulder, CO
3,100 Bowling Green, KY
1,400 Bremerton-Silverdale, WA
1,700 Bridgeport-Stamford-Norwalk, CT NECTA
4,700 Brownsville-Harlingen, TX
4,100 Brunswick, GA
1,400 Buffalo-Cheektowaga-Niagara Falls, NY
3,100 Burlington, NC
1,600 Burlington-South Burlington, VT NECTA
2,300 California-Lexington Park, MD
300 Canton-Massillon, OH
700 Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL
12,000 Cape Girardeau, MO-IL
400 Carbondale-Marion, IL
-1,000 Carson City, NV
-200 Casper, WY
-2,800 Cedar Rapids, IA
1,300 Chambersburg-Waynesboro, PA
1,900 Champaign-Urbana, IL
900 Charleston, WV
-1,100 Charleston-North Charleston, SC
8,100 Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC
32,200 Charlottesville, VA
4,000 Chattanooga, TN-GA
5,200 Cheyenne, WY
-200 Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI
74,000 Chico, CA
1,700 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN
14,900 Clarksville, TN-KY
2,200 Cleveland, TN
1,900 Cleveland-Elyria, OH
10,200 Coeur d'Alene, ID
1,900 College Station-Bryan, TX
4,200 Colorado Springs, CO
7,200 Columbia, MO
3,400 Columbia, SC
9,900 Columbus, GA-AL
600 Columbus, IN
1,800 Columbus, OH
19,400 Corpus Christi, TX
5,400 Corvallis, OR
500 Crestview-Fort Walton Beach-Destin, FL
1,500 Cumberland, MD-WV
-500 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX
130,600 Dalton, GA
1,500 Danbury, CT NECTA
200 Danville, IL
200 Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL
2,300 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL(2)
-2,900 Dayton, OH
6,800 Decatur, AL
200 Decatur, IL
-500 Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL
6,400 Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO
43,800 Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA
4,800 Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI
41,500 Dothan, AL
200 Dover, DE
1,900 Dover-Durham, NH-ME NECTA
200 Dubuque, IA
0 Duluth, MN-WI
-2,400 Durham-Chapel Hill, NC
4,900 East Stroudsburg, PA
1,200 Eau Claire, WI
0 El Centro, CA
2,600 El Paso, TX
8,900 Elizabethtown-Fort Knox, KY
2,000 Elkhart-Goshen, IN
-1,100 Elmira, NY
-400 Erie, PA
-1,300 Eugene, OR
2,700 Evansville, IN-KY
-300 Fairbanks, AK
-700 Fargo, ND-MN
2,500 Farmington, NM
-400 Fayetteville, NC
1,600 Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers, AR-MO
10,200 Flagstaff, AZ
600 Flint, MI
900 Florence, SC
1,000 Florence-Muscle Shoals, AL
700 Fond du Lac, WI
500 Fort Collins, CO
5,200 Fort Smith, AR-OK
100 Fort Wayne, IN
5,800 Fresno, CA
12,100 Gadsden, AL
1,400 Gainesville, FL
4,100 Gainesville, GA
3,500 Gettysburg, PA
800 Glens Falls, NY
1,100 Goldsboro, NC
700 Grand Forks, ND-MN
-500 Grand Island, NE
600 Grand Junction, CO
200 Grand Rapids-Wyoming, MI
14,800 Grants Pass, OR
600 Great Falls, MT
-400 Greeley, CO
800 Green Bay, WI
900 Greensboro-High Point, NC
5,200 Greenville, NC
-400 Greenville-Anderson-Mauldin, SC
9,300 Gulfport-Biloxi-Pascagoula, MS
300 Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV
700 Hammond, LA
100 Hanford-Corcoran, CA
600 Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA
6,700 Harrisonburg, VA
300 Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT NECTA
6,600 Hattiesburg, MS
1,600 Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC
1,600 Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Beaufort, SC
2,500 Hinesville, GA
0 Homosassa Springs, FL
300 Hot Springs, AR
1,000 Houma-Thibodaux, LA
-4,600 Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX
10,000 Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH
1,100 Huntsville, AL
3,400 Idaho Falls, ID
2,200 Indianapolis-Carmel-Anderson, IN
16,400 Iowa City, IA
700 Ithaca, NY
-600 Jackson, MI
-1,000 Jackson, MS
4,100 Jackson, TN
1,100 Jacksonville, FL
22,800 Jacksonville, NC
-100 Janesville-Beloit, WI
2,900 Jefferson City, MO
900 Johnson City, TN
1,200 Johnstown, PA
-500 Jonesboro, AR
1,800 Joplin, MO
-100 Kahului-Wailuku-Lahaina, HI
2,400 Kalamazoo-Portage, MI
3,600 Kankakee, IL
-100 Kansas City, MO-KS
11,600 Kennewick-Richland, WA
3,400 Killeen-Temple, TX
4,200 Kingsport-Bristol-Bristol, TN-VA
2,200 Kingston, NY
800 Knoxville, TN
10,300 Kokomo, IN
800 La Crosse-Onalaska, WI-MN
100 Lafayette, LA
-7,700 Lafayette-West Lafayette, IN
1,900 Lake Charles, LA
3,100 Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ
500 Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL
6,300 Lancaster, PA
3,700 Lansing-East Lansing, MI
4,400 Laredo, TX
2,100 Las Cruces, NM
200 Las Vegas-Henderson-Paradise, NV
20,600 Lawrence, KS
0 Lawton, OK
100 Lebanon, PA
400 Leominster-Gardner, MA NECTA
600 Lewiston, ID-WA
900 Lewiston-Auburn, ME NECTA
600 Lexington-Fayette, KY
6,800 Lima, OH
1,800 Lincoln, NE
2,200 Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR
5,300 Logan, UT-ID
2,100 Longview, TX
-500 Longview, WA
1,200 Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA
155,000 Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN
22,500 Lubbock, TX
4,300 Lynchburg, VA
800 Macon, GA
2,500 Madera, CA
2,700 Madison, WI
4,500 Manchester, NH NECTA
2,800 Manhattan, KS
1,400 Mankato-North Mankato, MN
700 Mansfield, OH
0 McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX
7,300 Medford, OR
1,900 Memphis, TN-MS-AR
12,000 Merced, CA
2,000 Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL
68,000 Michigan City-La Porte, IN
-600 Midland, MI
0 Midland, TX
-2,600 Milwaukee-Waukesha-West Allis, WI
5,100 Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI
28,800 Missoula, MT
700 Mobile, AL
2,000 Modesto, CA
5,900 Monroe, LA
600 Monroe, MI
1,500 Montgomery, AL
1,600 Morgantown, WV
700 Morristown, TN
1,400 Mount Vernon-Anacortes, WA
900 Muncie, IN
200 Muskegon, MI
1,500 Myrtle Beach-Conway-North Myrtle Beach, SC-NC
3,700 Napa, CA
2,500 Naples-Immokalee-Marco Island, FL
3,000 Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN
29,400 New Bedford, MA NECTA
800 New Bern, NC
900 New Haven, CT NECTA
900 New Orleans-Metairie, LA
-2,400 New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA
173,900 Niles-Benton Harbor, MI
1,400 North Port-Sarasota-Bradenton, FL
6,400 Norwich-New London-Westerly, CT-RI NECTA
2,500 Ocala, FL
1,800 Ocean City, NJ
1,300 Odessa, TX
-3,800 Ogden-Clearfield, UT
11,300 Oklahoma City, OK
6,400 Olympia-Tumwater, WA
2,700 Omaha-Council Bluffs, NE-IA
4,800 Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL
51,900 Oshkosh-Neenah, WI
500 Owensboro, KY
1,200 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA
4,100 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL
1,600 Panama City, FL
500 Parkersburg-Vienna, WV
100 Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL
1,500 Peoria, IL
-1,200 Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD
63,200 Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ
68,800 Pine Bluff, AR
-200 Pittsburgh, PA
3,800 Pittsfield, MA NECTA
800 Pocatello, ID
1,000 Port St. Lucie, FL
3,900 Portland-South Portland, ME NECTA
1,600 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA
34,300 Portsmouth, NH-ME NECTA
3,400 Prescott, AZ
2,300 Providence-Warwick, RI-MA NECTA
5,600 Provo-Orem, UT
12,800 Pueblo, CO
1,100 Punta Gorda, FL
900 Racine, WI
-900 Raleigh, NC
19,700 Rapid City, SD
-200 Reading, PA
2,200 Redding, CA
1,400 Reno, NV
8,500 Richmond, VA
23,600 Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA
43,500 Roanoke, VA
2,600 Rochester, MN
2,600 Rochester, NY
-2,000 Rockford, IL
3,300 Rocky Mount, NC
-500 Rome, GA
500 Sacramento--Roseville--Arden-Arcade, CA
20,400 Saginaw, MI
3,000 Salem, OR
4,700 Salinas, CA
4,400 Salisbury, MD-DE(2)
6,500 Salt Lake City, UT
20,300 San Angelo, TX
1,100 San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX
25,400 San Diego-Carlsbad, CA
36,900 San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA
71,300 San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA
42,100 San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles-Arroyo Grande, CA
2,300 Santa Cruz-Watsonville, CA
1,800 Santa Fe, NM
500 Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA
4,600 Santa Rosa, CA
5,100 Savannah, GA
6,800 Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton, PA
2,300 Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA
60,900 Sebastian-Vero Beach, FL
1,400 Sebring, FL
1,100 Sheboygan, WI
700 Sherman-Denison, TX
900 Shreveport-Bossier City, LA
-3,500 Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ
-400 Sioux City, IA-NE-SD
900 Sioux Falls, SD
4,200 South Bend-Mishawaka, IN-MI
3,200 Spartanburg, SC
4,400 Spokane-Spokane Valley, WA
5,100 Springfield, IL
1,700 Springfield, MA-CT NECTA
2,000 Springfield, MO
5,700 Springfield, OH
500 St. Cloud, MN
1,500 St. George, UT
4,000 St. Joseph, MO-KS
100 St. Louis, MO-IL(1)
24,800 State College, PA
900 Staunton-Waynesboro, VA
-500 Stockton-Lodi, CA
9,600 Sumter, SC
1,100 Syracuse, NY
1,800 Tallahassee, FL
2,700 Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL
42,000 Terre Haute, IN
-200 Texarkana, TX-AR
900 The Villages, FL
700 Toledo, OH
6,000 Topeka, KS
-500 Trenton, NJ
8,200 Tucson, AZ
11,300 Tulsa, OK
-1,800 Tuscaloosa, AL
1,700 Tyler, TX
2,300 Urban Honolulu, HI
6,500 Utica-Rome, NY
900 Valdosta, GA
1,000 Vallejo-Fairfield, CA
4,000 Victoria, TX
300 Vineland-Bridgeton, NJ
400 Virginia Beach-Norfolk-Newport News, VA-NC
4,600 Visalia-Porterville, CA
3,200 Waco, TX
2,900 Walla Walla, WA
300 Warner Robins, GA
400 Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV
71,700 Waterbury, CT NECTA
500 Waterloo-Cedar Falls, IA
-400 Watertown-Fort Drum, NY
900 Wausau, WI
600 Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH(2)
300 Wenatchee, WA
600 Wheeling, WV-OH
-100 Wichita Falls, TX
100 Wichita, KS
2,200 Williamsport, PA
-1,300 Wilmington, NC
1,700 Winchester, VA-WV
2,800 Winston-Salem, NC
1,300 Worcester, MA-CT NECTA
3,100 Yakima, WA
1,800 York-Hanover, PA
4,900 Youngstown-Warren-Boardman, OH-PA
-600 Yuba City, CA
1,200 Yuma, AZ
1,000
The largest decreases in employment for the year ending April 2016 occurred in Lafayette, Louisiana (–7,700), Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana (–4,600), and Odessa, Texas (–3,800). The largest over-the-year percentage decreases in employment occurred in Casper, Wyoming (–6.6 percent), Odessa, Texas (–5.0 percent), and Houma-Thibodaux, Louisiana (–4.7 percent).
Nonfarm employment rose over the year in 49 of the 51 metropolitan areas with a 2010 Census population of 1 million or more and fell in 2 areas: New Orleans-Metairie, Louisiana, and Rochester, New York (–0.4 percent each). The largest over-the- year percentage increase in employment in these large metropolitan areas occurred in Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, Florida (+4.5 percent), followed by San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, California (+4.1 percent), and Austin-Round Rock, Texas (+4.0 percent).
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 — April 2016” (HTML ) (PDF ).
United States Department of Labor
