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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New York City

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New York City

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	4,221,477	4,224,546	4,226,633	4,227,158	4,224,950	4,219,740	4,213,895	4,209,664	4,208,408	4,211,234	4,217,227	4,223,211
2016	4,226,854	4,227,460	4,225,529	4,224,022	4,225,788	4,231,168	4,239,004	4,247,851	4,256,117	4,262,389	4,266,958	4,271,659
2017	4,277,403	4,285,025	4,293,225	4,300,688	4,306,787	4,310,982	4,311,874	4,308,685	4,302,463	4,294,641	4,286,494	4,279,505
2018	4,275,242	4,274,105	4,275,131	4,275,914	4,273,975	4,269,500	4,264,494	4,261,571	4,261,204	4,263,381	4,267,604	4,272,437
2019	4,276,369	4,278,118	4,277,390	4,275,257	4,273,537	4,273,017	4,273,544	4,274,813	4,278,335	4,284,293	4,291,309	4,296,341
2020	4,296,758	4,291,856	4,284,461	3,708,237	3,932,692	4,054,858	4,080,072	4,043,596	4,067,139	4,046,861	4,064,006	4,074,007
2021	4,077,807	4,081,273	4,084,022	4,096,100	4,090,111	4,119,737	4,109,197	4,114,083	4,095,928	4,101,571	4,105,922	4,127,741
2022	4,131,119	4,120,296	4,112,496	4,116,891	4,115,075	4,115,575	4,108,064	4,096,653	4,116,465	4,134,661	4,151,571	4,165,132
2023	4,176,913	4,186,575	4,194,128	4,199,927	4,204,465	4,208,074	4,211,844	4,215,542	4,219,214	4,223,433	4,229,214	4,237,646
2024	4,246,339	4,256,078	4,266,635	4,278,019	4,289,165	4,297,658	4,303,324	4,307,033	4,309,328	4,311,362	4,313,589	4,315,822
2025	4,315,224	4,312,000	4,309,470	4,314,619	4,310,677	4,308,931	(p)4,312,298
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	3,958,208	3,964,664	3,971,508	3,978,300	3,983,706	3,986,941	3,989,005	3,990,512	3,992,331	3,995,419	3,999,468	4,003,350
2016	4,006,230	4,007,524	4,007,237	4,007,022	4,008,273	4,011,263	4,016,231	4,023,299	4,031,774	4,041,168	4,051,841	4,063,744
2017	4,075,857	4,088,065	4,098,525	4,106,086	4,111,095	4,114,173	4,114,651	4,112,158	4,107,776	4,102,560	4,096,940	4,092,620
2018	4,090,897	4,091,911	4,095,144	4,098,528	4,099,468	4,097,639	4,094,265	4,091,028	4,087,876	4,085,684	4,085,822	4,088,102
2019	4,091,622	4,095,709	4,099,323	4,102,577	4,105,815	4,108,430	4,110,084	4,111,355	4,115,220	4,120,762	4,125,174	4,125,178
2020	4,118,889	4,105,878	4,090,065	3,237,428	3,085,800	3,356,065	3,404,773	3,443,541	3,485,521	3,513,375	3,539,933	3,560,502
2021	3,577,206	3,593,789	3,614,580	3,637,239	3,660,024	3,681,834	3,699,877	3,717,291	3,734,594	3,755,472	3,775,818	3,796,045
2022	3,815,035	3,833,284	3,849,545	3,866,233	3,880,562	3,893,618	3,904,408	3,912,256	3,918,728	3,926,471	3,936,346	3,946,206
2023	3,956,710	3,967,149	3,977,601	3,987,657	3,995,860	4,001,786	4,006,278	4,009,467	4,012,253	4,015,857	4,021,493	4,030,305
2024	4,039,697	4,048,936	4,056,337	4,062,301	4,067,310	4,069,992	4,070,497	4,070,383	4,070,225	4,070,948	4,073,437	4,076,067
2025	4,077,315	4,085,603	4,091,278	4,100,587	4,103,131	4,105,562	(p)4,106,321
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	263,269	259,882	255,125	248,858	241,244	232,799	224,890	219,152	216,077	215,815	217,759	219,861
2016	220,624	219,936	218,292	217,000	217,515	219,905	222,773	224,552	224,343	221,221	215,117	207,915
2017	201,546	196,960	194,700	194,602	195,692	196,809	197,223	196,527	194,687	192,081	189,554	186,885
2018	184,345	182,194	179,987	177,386	174,507	171,861	170,229	170,543	173,328	177,697	181,782	184,335
2019	184,747	182,409	178,067	172,680	167,722	164,587	163,460	163,458	163,115	163,531	166,135	171,163
2020	177,869	185,978	194,396	470,809	846,892	698,793	675,299	600,055	581,618	533,486	524,073	513,505
2021	500,601	487,484	469,442	458,861	430,087	437,903	409,320	396,792	361,334	346,099	330,104	331,696
2022	316,084	287,012	262,951	250,658	234,513	221,957	203,656	184,397	197,737	208,190	215,225	218,926
2023	220,203	219,426	216,527	212,270	208,605	206,288	205,566	206,075	206,961	207,576	207,721	207,341
2024	206,642	207,142	210,298	215,718	221,855	227,666	232,827	236,650	239,103	240,414	240,152	239,755
2025	237,909	226,397	218,192	214,032	207,546	203,369	(p)205,977
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	6.2	6.2	6.0	5.9	5.7	5.5	5.3	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.2
2016	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.3	5.3	5.3	5.2	5.0	4.9
2017	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.4
2018	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3
2019	4.3	4.3	4.2	4.0	3.9	3.9	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.9	4.0
2020	4.1	4.3	4.5	12.7	21.5	17.2	16.6	14.8	14.3	13.2	12.9	12.6
2021	12.3	11.9	11.5	11.2	10.5	10.6	10.0	9.6	8.8	8.4	8.0	8.0
2022	7.7	7.0	6.4	6.1	5.7	5.4	5.0	4.5	4.8	5.0	5.2	5.3
2023	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.9	4.9
2024	4.9	4.9	4.9	5.0	5.2	5.3	5.4	5.5	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.6
2025	5.5	5.3	5.1	5.0	4.8	4.7	(p)4.8
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	4,215,903	4,241,978	4,236,672	4,225,311	4,230,354	4,220,583	4,238,136	4,220,021	4,171,418	4,207,188	4,206,669	4,212,956	4,218,932
2016	4,213,802	4,255,392	4,260,592	4,212,623	4,201,619	4,230,438	4,259,977	4,259,550	4,248,485	4,257,479	4,249,352	4,245,758	4,241,256
2017	4,269,808	4,312,259	4,328,640	4,294,516	4,285,614	4,305,433	4,345,127	4,296,576	4,308,777	4,293,161	4,267,223	4,243,422	4,295,879
2018	4,272,247	4,318,121	4,297,577	4,267,774	4,246,899	4,282,728	4,284,521	4,261,836	4,229,059	4,273,447	4,248,110	4,270,216	4,271,044
2019	4,271,247	4,303,667	4,303,478	4,268,770	4,250,058	4,274,995	4,281,838	4,275,741	4,268,571	4,299,853	4,270,128	4,268,412	4,278,064
2020	4,299,598	4,339,120	4,310,881	3,698,973	3,881,915	4,049,031	4,088,537	4,079,881	4,041,181	4,073,012	4,060,723	4,046,337	4,080,766
2021	4,058,414	4,096,032	4,111,774	4,105,809	4,060,111	4,120,309	4,131,462	4,123,067	4,077,727	4,106,061	4,097,713	4,095,788	4,098,689
2022	4,130,672	4,141,513	4,136,095	4,100,358	4,103,165	4,113,655	4,127,969	4,126,321	4,096,743	4,137,956	4,133,439	4,141,873	4,124,146
2023	4,162,526	4,215,279	4,222,057	4,178,857	4,193,654	4,214,250	4,231,806	4,238,592	4,194,399	4,227,677	4,227,876	4,197,201	4,208,681
2024	4,227,829	4,278,415	4,296,808	4,276,661	4,262,435	4,303,004	4,331,842	4,336,789	4,289,035	4,306,712	4,292,173	4,289,830	4,290,961
2025	4,286,282	4,314,059	4,323,257	4,324,816	4,266,350	4,304,554	(p)4,349,758
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	3,936,592	3,970,520	3,991,168	3,991,728	3,993,817	3,985,646	3,994,100	3,988,882	3,965,282	3,995,839	3,992,565	4,002,450	3,984,049
2016	3,982,111	4,027,508	4,039,071	4,011,580	4,006,402	4,008,442	4,015,908	4,020,068	4,019,873	4,032,831	4,047,476	4,057,649	4,022,410
2017	4,058,676	4,103,199	4,139,635	4,112,797	4,099,807	4,109,995	4,125,945	4,080,933	4,112,813	4,105,669	4,096,346	4,071,829	4,101,470
2018	4,076,587	4,125,951	4,115,558	4,099,846	4,093,611	4,098,873	4,093,933	4,076,202	4,061,452	4,103,014	4,083,830	4,097,117	4,093,831
2019	4,068,716	4,114,144	4,128,281	4,111,754	4,086,648	4,105,659	4,098,034	4,096,872	4,112,168	4,132,165	4,116,060	4,124,113	4,107,885
2020	4,123,298	4,157,560	4,083,234	3,246,116	3,043,676	3,352,771	3,379,710	3,467,947	3,459,178	3,540,667	3,558,619	3,563,787	3,581,380
2021	3,543,108	3,594,841	3,645,819	3,650,938	3,645,267	3,672,559	3,695,783	3,708,018	3,721,790	3,767,144	3,784,156	3,787,228	3,684,721
2022	3,806,055	3,845,537	3,874,997	3,862,497	3,881,233	3,884,841	3,899,317	3,909,915	3,911,499	3,933,500	3,929,354	3,939,555	3,889,858
2023	3,939,617	3,984,823	4,010,143	3,983,900	3,990,912	3,997,810	4,012,526	4,010,808	3,990,478	4,013,233	4,035,820	4,004,371	3,997,870
2024	4,024,462	4,062,092	4,090,269	4,078,244	4,053,126	4,069,138	4,066,797	4,073,409	4,063,185	4,070,828	4,056,104	4,065,287	4,064,412
2025	4,059,941	4,128,418	4,129,616	4,125,872	4,082,522	4,098,993	(p)4,101,445
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	279,311	271,458	245,504	233,583	236,537	234,937	244,036	231,139	206,136	211,349	214,104	210,506	234,883
2016	231,691	227,884	221,521	201,043	195,217	221,996	244,069	239,482	228,612	224,648	201,876	188,109	218,846
2017	211,132	209,060	189,005	181,719	185,807	195,438	219,182	215,643	195,964	187,492	170,877	171,593	194,409
2018	195,660	192,170	182,019	167,928	153,288	183,855	190,588	185,634	167,607	170,433	164,280	173,099	177,213
2019	202,531	189,523	175,197	157,016	163,410	169,336	183,804	178,869	156,403	167,688	154,068	144,299	170,179
2020	176,300	181,560	227,647	452,857	838,239	696,260	708,827	611,934	582,003	532,345	502,104	482,550	499,386
2021	515,306	501,191	465,955	454,871	414,844	447,750	435,679	415,049	355,937	338,917	313,557	308,560	413,968
2022	324,617	295,976	261,098	237,861	221,932	228,814	228,652	216,406	185,244	204,456	204,085	202,318	234,288
2023	222,909	230,456	211,914	194,957	202,742	216,440	219,280	227,784	203,921	214,444	192,056	192,830	210,811
2024	203,367	216,323	206,539	198,417	209,309	233,866	265,045	263,380	225,850	235,884	236,069	224,543	226,549
2025	226,341	185,641	193,641	198,944	183,828	205,561	(p)248,313
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2015	6.6	6.4	5.8	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.8	5.5	4.9	5.0	5.1	5.0	5.6
2016	5.5	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.6	5.2	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.3	4.8	4.4	5.2
2017	4.9	4.8	4.4	4.2	4.3	4.5	5.0	5.0	4.5	4.4	4.0	4.0	4.5
2018	4.6	4.5	4.2	3.9	3.6	4.3	4.4	4.4	4.0	4.0	3.9	4.1	4.1
2019	4.7	4.4	4.1	3.7	3.8	4.0	4.3	4.2	3.7	3.9	3.6	3.4	4.0
2020	4.1	4.2	5.3	12.2	21.6	17.2	17.3	15.0	14.4	13.1	12.4	11.9	12.2
2021	12.7	12.2	11.3	11.1	10.2	10.9	10.5	10.1	8.7	8.3	7.7	7.5	10.1
2022	7.9	7.1	6.3	5.8	5.4	5.6	5.5	5.2	4.5	4.9	4.9	4.9	5.7
2023	5.4	5.5	5.0	4.7	4.8	5.1	5.2	5.4	4.9	5.1	4.5	4.6	5.0
2024	4.8	5.1	4.8	4.6	4.9	5.4	6.1	6.1	5.3	5.5	5.5	5.2	5.3
2025	5.3	4.3	4.5	4.6	4.3	4.8	(p)5.7
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).