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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
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	4,114,413	4,117,385	4,120,726	4,132,742	4,125,761	4,156,993	4,146,416	4,151,730	4,133,184	4,139,196	4,142,533	4,166,099
2022	4,169,797	4,159,257	4,153,143	4,158,611	4,156,806	4,158,024	4,150,476	4,139,011	4,159,194	4,177,891	4,195,479	4,210,095
2023	4,223,070	4,233,983	4,242,983	4,250,054	4,255,548	4,259,844	4,264,029	4,268,089	4,272,235	4,277,119	4,283,564	4,292,732
2024	4,302,294	4,313,158	4,325,146	4,337,707	4,349,454	4,358,088	4,363,447	4,366,751	4,368,531	4,369,876	4,371,774	4,374,182
2025	4,376,214	4,377,121	4,376,474	4,375,798	4,377,636	4,383,109	4,394,182	4,408,835	4,424,094	(1)-	4,438,517	4,438,098
2026	4,445,164	4,448,265	4,443,683	4,435,839	4,431,653	4,422,164	(p)4,405,570
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	3,611,005	3,627,520	3,648,640	3,671,507	3,694,471	3,716,509	3,734,803	3,752,677	3,770,380	3,791,513	3,812,139	3,832,968
2022	3,852,639	3,871,542	3,888,808	3,906,354	3,921,421	3,935,142	3,946,496	3,954,946	3,961,891	3,969,937	3,979,972	3,990,186
2023	4,001,184	4,012,376	4,024,094	4,035,658	4,045,455	4,053,032	4,059,068	4,063,685	4,067,586	4,071,816	4,077,413	4,085,926
2024	4,095,235	4,105,182	4,114,332	4,122,693	4,130,456	4,136,262	4,140,091	4,143,214	4,146,187	4,150,164	4,155,124	4,159,961
2025	4,163,508	4,164,904	4,163,821	4,160,801	4,157,575	4,155,815	4,158,461	4,165,092	4,173,908	(1)-	4,185,188	4,186,036
2026	4,192,188	4,191,671	4,191,857	4,189,194	4,190,268	4,185,916	(p)4,184,687
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	503,408	489,865	472,086	461,235	431,290	440,484	411,613	399,053	362,804	347,683	330,394	333,131
2022	317,158	287,715	264,335	252,257	235,385	222,882	203,980	184,065	197,303	207,954	215,507	219,909
2023	221,886	221,607	218,889	214,396	210,093	206,812	204,961	204,404	204,649	205,303	206,151	206,806
2024	207,059	207,976	210,814	215,014	218,998	221,826	223,356	223,537	222,344	219,712	216,650	214,221
2025	212,706	212,217	212,653	214,997	220,061	227,294	235,721	243,743	250,186	(1)-	253,329	252,062
2026	252,976	256,594	251,826	246,645	241,385	236,248	(p)220,883
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	12.2	11.9	11.5	11.2	10.5	10.6	9.9	9.6	8.8	8.4	8.0	8.0
2022	7.6	6.9	6.4	6.1	5.7	5.4	4.9	4.4	4.7	5.0	5.1	5.2
2023	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.0	4.9	4.9	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8	4.8
2024	4.8	4.8	4.9	5.0	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.0	4.9
2025	4.9	4.8	4.9	4.9	5.0	5.2	5.4	5.5	5.7	(1)-	5.7	5.7
2026	5.7	5.8	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.3	(p)5.0
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	4,091,728	4,132,617	4,146,990	4,143,214	4,094,886	4,157,970	4,170,779	4,162,093	4,115,892	4,144,798	4,135,341	4,132,674	4,135,749
2022	4,165,331	4,180,642	4,174,964	4,143,186	4,144,080	4,156,354	4,171,529	4,169,872	4,139,940	4,183,962	4,178,908	4,186,537	4,166,275
2023	4,204,573	4,261,515	4,268,359	4,230,823	4,243,534	4,266,106	4,284,382	4,291,822	4,248,226	4,285,229	4,284,489	4,252,791	4,260,154
2024	4,279,951	4,333,246	4,350,831	4,338,643	4,322,472	4,365,024	4,391,757	4,394,572	4,346,823	4,372,411	4,357,209	4,346,343	4,349,940
2025	4,357,812	4,396,977	4,404,922	4,384,817	4,341,287	4,380,273	4,417,425	4,427,578	4,413,724	(1)-	4,441,475	4,425,438	(2)4,399,248
2026	4,419,728	4,459,494	4,438,197	4,403,852	4,397,591	4,392,374	(p)4,370,354
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	3,574,394	3,631,662	3,679,046	3,685,944	3,680,010	3,707,690	3,731,495	3,743,285	3,756,745	3,803,078	3,821,150	3,822,319	3,719,735
2022	3,840,873	3,886,989	3,913,685	3,904,369	3,922,998	3,926,935	3,941,165	3,951,398	3,952,824	3,977,080	3,973,983	3,982,201	3,931,208
2023	3,981,589	4,033,337	4,056,231	4,034,628	4,041,744	4,049,467	4,064,459	4,062,896	4,043,205	4,069,020	4,092,795	4,059,435	4,049,067
2024	4,078,271	4,121,215	4,146,799	4,142,712	4,118,887	4,137,979	4,134,625	4,140,934	4,133,236	4,151,289	4,140,834	4,145,042	4,132,652
2025	4,148,043	4,192,225	4,198,005	4,181,426	4,138,081	4,154,208	4,155,892	4,161,120	4,152,909	(1)-	4,190,901	4,187,329	(2)4,169,104
2026	4,176,080	4,191,084	4,219,828	4,192,512	4,185,660	4,162,974	(p)4,175,639
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	517,334	500,955	467,944	457,270	414,876	450,280	439,284	418,808	359,147	341,720	314,191	310,355	416,014
2022	324,458	293,653	261,279	238,817	221,082	229,419	230,364	218,474	187,116	206,882	204,925	204,336	235,067
2023	222,984	228,178	212,128	196,195	201,790	216,639	219,923	228,926	205,021	216,209	191,694	193,356	211,087
2024	201,680	212,031	204,032	195,931	203,585	227,045	257,132	253,638	213,587	221,122	216,375	201,301	217,288
2025	209,769	204,752	206,917	203,391	203,206	226,065	261,533	266,458	260,815	(1)-	250,574	238,109	(2)230,144
2026	243,648	268,410	218,369	211,340	211,931	229,400	(p)194,715
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
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	12.6	12.1	11.3	11.0	10.1	10.8	10.5	10.1	8.7	8.2	7.6	7.5	10.1
2022	7.8	7.0	6.3	5.8	5.3	5.5	5.5	5.2	4.5	4.9	4.9	4.9	5.6
2023	5.3	5.4	5.0	4.6	4.8	5.1	5.1	5.3	4.8	5.0	4.5	4.5	5.0
2024	4.7	4.9	4.7	4.5	4.7	5.2	5.9	5.8	4.9	5.1	5.0	4.6	5.0
2025	4.8	4.7	4.7	4.6	4.7	5.2	5.9	6.0	5.9	(1)-	5.6	5.4	(2)5.2
2026	5.5	6.0	4.9	4.8	4.8	5.2	(p)4.5
Footnotes (1) Data unavailable due to the 2025 lapse in appropriations. (2) Annual estimates for 2025 are 11-month averages that exclude October. Data for October 2025 were not collected due to the federal government shutdown. (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).