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Cities in Indiana by civilian labor force

Indianapolis, IN had the highest civilian labor force of 39 cities in 2017, at 442,235. East Chicago, IN had the lowest, at 11,235. The median was 24,565. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest442,235Indianapolis, IN
Lowest11,235East Chicago, IN
Median24,56539 cities

All cities, 2017

Indianapolis, IN: 442,235 personsIndianapolis, IN442,235Fort Wayne, IN: 127,870 personsFort Wayne, IN127,870Evansville, IN: 58,549 personsEvansville, IN58,549Fishers, IN: 51,022 personsFishers, IN51,022Carmel, IN: 50,959 personsCarmel, IN50,959South Bend, IN: 49,263 personsSouth Bend, IN49,263Bloomington, IN: 40,822 personsBloomington, IN40,822Lafayette, IN: 37,633 personsLafayette, IN37,633Hammond, IN: 36,863 personsHammond, IN36,863Noblesville, IN: 35,287 personsNoblesville, IN35,287Muncie, IN: 31,509 personsMuncie, IN31,509Greenwood, IN: 31,481 personsGreenwood, IN31,481Kokomo, IN: 27,849 personsKokomo, IN27,849Elkhart, IN: 26,437 personsElkhart, IN26,437Lawrence, IN: 26,370 personsLawrence, IN26,370Terre Haute, IN: 25,906 personsTerre Haute, IN25,906Mishawaka, IN: 25,241 personsMishawaka, IN25,241Jeffersonville, IN: 25,180 personsJeffersonville, IN25,180Columbus, IN: 24,687 personsColumbus, IN24,687Gary, IN: 24,565 personsGary, IN24,565Anderson, IN: 24,211 personsAnderson, IN24,211Westfield, IN: 21,852 personsWestfield, IN21,852West Lafayette, IN: 18,897 personsWest Lafayette, IN18,897Portage, IN: 18,207 personsPortage, IN18,207New Albany, IN: 18,181 personsNew Albany, IN18,181Merrillville, IN: 17,604 personsMerrillville, IN17,604Valparaiso, IN: 16,861 personsValparaiso, IN16,861Richmond, IN: 16,023 personsRichmond, IN16,023Goshen, IN: 15,778 personsGoshen, IN15,778Schererville, IN: 15,445 personsSchererville, IN15,445Plainfield, IN: 15,353 personsPlainfield, IN15,353Hobart, IN: 15,321 personsHobart, IN15,321Crown Point, IN: 15,320 personsCrown Point, IN15,320Brownsburg, IN: 14,790 personsBrownsburg, IN14,790Zionsville, IN: 14,534 personsZionsville, IN14,534Michigan City, IN: 13,579 personsMichigan City, IN13,579Marion, IN: 12,304 personsMarion, IN12,304Franklin, IN: 11,730 personsFranklin, IN11,730East Chicago, IN: 11,235 personsEast Chicago, IN11,235Indianapolis, IN: 442,235 personsIndianapolis, IN442,235Fort Wayne, IN: 127,870 personsFort Wayne, IN127,870Evansville, IN: 58,549 personsEvansville, IN58,549Fishers, IN: 51,022 personsFishers, IN51,022Carmel, IN: 50,959 personsCarmel, IN50,959South Bend, IN: 49,263 personsSouth Bend, IN49,263Bloomington, IN: 40,822 personsBloomington, IN40,822Lafayette, IN: 37,633 personsLafayette, IN37,633Hammond, IN: 36,863 personsHammond, IN36,863Noblesville, IN: 35,287 personsNoblesville, IN35,287Muncie, IN: 31,509 personsMuncie, IN31,509Greenwood, IN: 31,481 personsGreenwood, IN31,481Kokomo, IN: 27,849 personsKokomo, IN27,849Elkhart, IN: 26,437 personsElkhart, IN26,437Lawrence, IN: 26,370 personsLawrence, IN26,370Terre Haute, IN: 25,906 personsTerre Haute, IN25,906Mishawaka, IN: 25,241 personsMishawaka, IN25,241Jeffersonville, IN: 25,180 personsJeffersonville, IN25,180Columbus, IN: 24,687 personsColumbus, IN24,687Gary, IN: 24,565 personsGary, IN24,565Anderson, IN: 24,211 personsAnderson, IN24,211Westfield, IN: 21,852 personsWestfield, IN21,852West Lafayette, IN: 18,897 personsWest Lafayette, IN18,897Portage, IN: 18,207 personsPortage, IN18,207New Albany, IN: 18,181 personsNew Albany, IN18,181Merrillville, IN: 17,604 personsMerrillville, IN17,604Valparaiso, IN: 16,861 personsValparaiso, IN16,861Richmond, IN: 16,023 personsRichmond, IN16,023Goshen, IN: 15,778 personsGoshen, IN15,778Schererville, IN: 15,445 personsSchererville, IN15,445Plainfield, IN: 15,353 personsPlainfield, IN15,353Hobart, IN: 15,321 personsHobart, IN15,321Crown Point, IN: 15,320 personsCrown Point, IN15,320Brownsburg, IN: 14,790 personsBrownsburg, IN14,790Zionsville, IN: 14,534 personsZionsville, IN14,534Michigan City, IN: 13,579 personsMichigan City, IN13,579Marion, IN: 12,304 personsMarion, IN12,304Franklin, IN: 11,730 personsFranklin, IN11,730East Chicago, IN: 11,235 personsEast Chicago, IN11,235
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2017
persons		Change on 2016
1Indianapolis, IN442,235-0%
2Fort Wayne, IN127,870+0.2%
3Evansville, IN58,549-0.2%
4Fishers, IN51,022+1.8%
5Carmel, IN50,959+1.2%
6South Bend, IN49,263-0.4%
7Bloomington, IN40,822+0.5%
8Lafayette, IN37,633+0.2%
9Hammond, IN36,863-1.6%
10Noblesville, IN35,287+2.2%
11Muncie, IN31,509-1.7%
12Greenwood, IN31,481+1.3%
13Kokomo, IN27,849-0.1%
14Elkhart, IN26,437+2.5%
15Lawrence, IN26,370+0.3%
16Terre Haute, IN25,906-0.9%
17Mishawaka, IN25,241+0.1%
18Jeffersonville, IN25,180+0.8%
19Columbus, IN24,687-0.3%
20Gary, IN24,565-2.2%
21Anderson, IN24,211-1.3%
22Westfield, IN21,852+5%
23West Lafayette, IN18,897+0.1%
24Portage, IN18,207-0.9%
25New Albany, IN18,181-0.7%
26Merrillville, IN17,604-1.4%
27Valparaiso, IN16,861+0.7%
28Richmond, IN16,023-0.2%
29Goshen, IN15,778+3%
30Schererville, IN15,445-1.1%
31Plainfield, IN15,353+4.5%
32Hobart, IN15,321-1.5%
33Crown Point, IN15,320+0.3%
34Brownsburg, IN14,790+1.6%
35Zionsville, IN14,534+1.7%
36Michigan City, IN13,579-1.9%
37Marion, IN12,304-1.1%
38Franklin, IN11,730+0.2%
39East Chicago, IN11,235-2.3%

Other periods

About this ranking

Employed plus unemployed residents, annual average.

More on how it is measured
  • People aged 16 and over by place of residence, from the Local Area Unemployment Statistics (LAUS) program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
  • Active-duty military personnel and people living in institutions are excluded.

United States cities only for now. Counts people where they live, not jobs: for wage and salary jobs by state use oews_employment. BLS estimates cities by splitting county estimates with Census Bureau employment and population data and unemployment insurance claims, so city figures are less precise than state ones. BLS publishes cities of 25,000 or more, and smaller cities in New England.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the cities are compared on one definition. 1 cities with data in other periods have no value for 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. (2026). Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average (Cities in Indiana by civilian labor force, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19

MLA 9

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average, Cities in Indiana by civilian labor force, 2017. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/civilian-labor-force/indiana-cities?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. Cities in Indiana by civilian labor force, 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/civilian-labor-force/indiana-cities?period=2017.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average, Cities in Indiana by civilian labor force, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/civilian-labor-force/indiana-cities?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest civilian labor force?

Indianapolis, IN, with 442,235 in 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest civilian labor force?

East Chicago, IN, with 11,235 in 2017.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: labor force (measure 06), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 cities have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.

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