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Cities in Indiana by employed residents

Indianapolis, IN had the highest employed residents of 39 cities in 2014, at 396,491. East Chicago, IN had the lowest, at 9,198. The median was 22,472. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest396,491Indianapolis, IN
Lowest9,198East Chicago, IN
Median22,47239 cities

All cities, 2014

Indianapolis, IN: 396,491 personsIndianapolis, IN396,491Fort Wayne, IN: 113,966 personsFort Wayne, IN113,966Evansville, IN: 55,509 personsEvansville, IN55,509Fishers, IN: 44,578 personsFishers, IN44,578Carmel, IN: 43,552 personsCarmel, IN43,552South Bend, IN: 42,509 personsSouth Bend, IN42,509Lafayette, IN: 35,217 personsLafayette, IN35,217Bloomington, IN: 34,992 personsBloomington, IN34,992Hammond, IN: 32,211 personsHammond, IN32,211Noblesville, IN: 29,816 personsNoblesville, IN29,816Muncie, IN: 28,850 personsMuncie, IN28,850Greenwood, IN: 26,299 personsGreenwood, IN26,299Gary, IN: 24,618 personsGary, IN24,618Terre Haute, IN: 23,798 personsTerre Haute, IN23,798Lawrence, IN: 23,788 personsLawrence, IN23,788Columbus, IN: 23,377 personsColumbus, IN23,377Kokomo, IN: 23,265 personsKokomo, IN23,265Mishawaka, IN: 22,980 personsMishawaka, IN22,980Jeffersonville, IN: 22,527 personsJeffersonville, IN22,527Elkhart, IN: 22,472 personsElkhart, IN22,472Anderson, IN: 21,313 personsAnderson, IN21,313Westfield, IN: 18,094 personsWestfield, IN18,094New Albany, IN: 16,938 personsNew Albany, IN16,938Portage, IN: 16,492 personsPortage, IN16,492Merrillville, IN: 15,739 personsMerrillville, IN15,739Schererville, IN: 15,079 personsSchererville, IN15,079Valparaiso, IN: 14,910 personsValparaiso, IN14,910Goshen, IN: 14,872 personsGoshen, IN14,872Richmond, IN: 14,027 personsRichmond, IN14,027West Lafayette, IN: 13,958 personsWest Lafayette, IN13,958Hobart, IN: 13,771 personsHobart, IN13,771Plainfield, IN: 13,675 personsPlainfield, IN13,675Crown Point, IN: 13,637 personsCrown Point, IN13,637Zionsville, IN: 12,531 personsZionsville, IN12,531Brownsburg, IN: 12,436 personsBrownsburg, IN12,436Marion, IN: 11,976 personsMarion, IN11,976Michigan City, IN: 11,920 personsMichigan City, IN11,920Franklin, IN: 10,880 personsFranklin, IN10,880East Chicago, IN: 9,198 personsEast Chicago, IN9,198Indianapolis, IN: 396,491 personsIndianapolis, IN396,491Fort Wayne, IN: 113,966 personsFort Wayne, IN113,966Evansville, IN: 55,509 personsEvansville, IN55,509Fishers, IN: 44,578 personsFishers, IN44,578Carmel, IN: 43,552 personsCarmel, IN43,552South Bend, IN: 42,509 personsSouth Bend, IN42,509Lafayette, IN: 35,217 personsLafayette, IN35,217Bloomington, IN: 34,992 personsBloomington, IN34,992Hammond, IN: 32,211 personsHammond, IN32,211Noblesville, IN: 29,816 personsNoblesville, IN29,816Muncie, IN: 28,850 personsMuncie, IN28,850Greenwood, IN: 26,299 personsGreenwood, IN26,299Gary, IN: 24,618 personsGary, IN24,618Terre Haute, IN: 23,798 personsTerre Haute, IN23,798Lawrence, IN: 23,788 personsLawrence, IN23,788Columbus, IN: 23,377 personsColumbus, IN23,377Kokomo, IN: 23,265 personsKokomo, IN23,265Mishawaka, IN: 22,980 personsMishawaka, IN22,980Jeffersonville, IN: 22,527 personsJeffersonville, IN22,527Elkhart, IN: 22,472 personsElkhart, IN22,472Anderson, IN: 21,313 personsAnderson, IN21,313Westfield, IN: 18,094 personsWestfield, IN18,094New Albany, IN: 16,938 personsNew Albany, IN16,938Portage, IN: 16,492 personsPortage, IN16,492Merrillville, IN: 15,739 personsMerrillville, IN15,739Schererville, IN: 15,079 personsSchererville, IN15,079Valparaiso, IN: 14,910 personsValparaiso, IN14,910Goshen, IN: 14,872 personsGoshen, IN14,872Richmond, IN: 14,027 personsRichmond, IN14,027West Lafayette, IN: 13,958 personsWest Lafayette, IN13,958Hobart, IN: 13,771 personsHobart, IN13,771Plainfield, IN: 13,675 personsPlainfield, IN13,675Crown Point, IN: 13,637 personsCrown Point, IN13,637Zionsville, IN: 12,531 personsZionsville, IN12,531Brownsburg, IN: 12,436 personsBrownsburg, IN12,436Marion, IN: 11,976 personsMarion, IN11,976Michigan City, IN: 11,920 personsMichigan City, IN11,920Franklin, IN: 10,880 personsFranklin, IN10,880East Chicago, IN: 9,198 personsEast Chicago, IN9,198
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2014
persons		Change on 2013
1Indianapolis, IN396,491+2.8%
2Fort Wayne, IN113,966+2.5%
3Evansville, IN55,509+2.6%
4Fishers, IN44,578+5.1%
5Carmel, IN43,552+3.1%
6South Bend, IN42,509+3.4%
7Lafayette, IN35,217+2.1%
8Bloomington, IN34,992+2.1%
9Hammond, IN32,211+0.8%
10Noblesville, IN29,816+4.1%
11Muncie, IN28,850+0.6%
12Greenwood, IN26,299+3.8%
13Gary, IN24,618+0.8%
14Terre Haute, IN23,798+1.6%
15Lawrence, IN23,788+3%
16Columbus, IN23,377+3.9%
17Kokomo, IN23,265+3.3%
18Mishawaka, IN22,980+3.5%
19Jeffersonville, IN22,527+3.8%
20Elkhart, IN22,472+4.9%
21Anderson, IN21,313+1.8%
22Westfield, IN18,094+8%
23New Albany, IN16,938+2.1%
24Portage, IN16,492+1.4%
25Merrillville, IN15,739+1%
26Schererville, IN15,079+1.2%
27Valparaiso, IN14,910+1.9%
28Goshen, IN14,872+4.8%
29Richmond, IN14,027+3.2%
30West Lafayette, IN13,958+5.8%
31Hobart, IN13,771+1.9%
32Plainfield, IN13,675+3.2%
33Crown Point, IN13,637+2.3%
34Zionsville, IN12,531+4.8%
35Brownsburg, IN12,436+2.9%
36Marion, IN11,976+2.7%
37Michigan City, IN11,920+1.3%
38Franklin, IN10,880+2.9%
39East Chicago, IN9,198+0.8%

Other periods

About this ranking

Residents who did any work for pay or profit in the reference week, or were temporarily absent from a job, 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, whatever the place of work, and someone with two jobs counts once. 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 2014 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: employment (measure 05), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14. 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: employment (measure 05), annual average (Cities in Indiana by employed residents, 2014) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14

MLA 9

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Indiana by employed residents, 2014. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2014. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Cities in Indiana by employed residents, 2014. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2014.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Indiana by employed residents, 2014 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2014 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest employed residents?

Indianapolis, IN, with 396,491 in 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

East Chicago, IN, with 9,198 in 2014.

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: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 cities have no value for 2014 and are not ranked.

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