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Cities in Indiana by employed residents

Indianapolis, IN had the highest employed residents of 39 cities in 2015, at 406,595. East Chicago, IN had the lowest, at 9,217. The median was 23,225. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest406,595Indianapolis, IN
Lowest9,217East Chicago, IN
Median23,22539 cities

All cities, 2015

Indianapolis, IN: 406,595 personsIndianapolis, IN406,595Fort Wayne, IN: 116,819 personsFort Wayne, IN116,819Evansville, IN: 56,081 personsEvansville, IN56,081Fishers, IN: 46,747 personsFishers, IN46,747Carmel, IN: 45,511 personsCarmel, IN45,511South Bend, IN: 43,735 personsSouth Bend, IN43,735Lafayette, IN: 35,884 personsLafayette, IN35,884Bloomington, IN: 35,186 personsBloomington, IN35,186Hammond, IN: 32,284 personsHammond, IN32,284Noblesville, IN: 31,241 personsNoblesville, IN31,241Muncie, IN: 29,709 personsMuncie, IN29,709Greenwood, IN: 27,419 personsGreenwood, IN27,419Gary, IN: 24,679 personsGary, IN24,679Lawrence, IN: 24,401 personsLawrence, IN24,401Kokomo, IN: 24,105 personsKokomo, IN24,105Columbus, IN: 24,103 personsColumbus, IN24,103Terre Haute, IN: 23,933 personsTerre Haute, IN23,933Mishawaka, IN: 23,610 personsMishawaka, IN23,610Elkhart, IN: 23,555 personsElkhart, IN23,555Jeffersonville, IN: 23,225 personsJeffersonville, IN23,225Anderson, IN: 21,740 personsAnderson, IN21,740West Lafayette, IN: 20,045 personsWest Lafayette, IN20,045Westfield, IN: 19,230 personsWestfield, IN19,230New Albany, IN: 17,346 personsNew Albany, IN17,346Portage, IN: 16,690 personsPortage, IN16,690Merrillville, IN: 15,830 personsMerrillville, IN15,830Goshen, IN: 15,652 personsGoshen, IN15,652Valparaiso, IN: 15,217 personsValparaiso, IN15,217Schererville, IN: 15,192 personsSchererville, IN15,192Richmond, IN: 14,094 personsRichmond, IN14,094Plainfield, IN: 14,041 personsPlainfield, IN14,041Crown Point, IN: 13,927 personsCrown Point, IN13,927Hobart, IN: 13,828 personsHobart, IN13,828Brownsburg, IN: 13,605 personsBrownsburg, IN13,605Zionsville, IN: 13,112 personsZionsville, IN13,112Marion, IN: 12,116 personsMarion, IN12,116Michigan City, IN: 12,051 personsMichigan City, IN12,051Franklin, IN: 11,231 personsFranklin, IN11,231East Chicago, IN: 9,217 personsEast Chicago, IN9,217Indianapolis, IN: 406,595 personsIndianapolis, IN406,595Fort Wayne, IN: 116,819 personsFort Wayne, IN116,819Evansville, IN: 56,081 personsEvansville, IN56,081Fishers, IN: 46,747 personsFishers, IN46,747Carmel, IN: 45,511 personsCarmel, IN45,511South Bend, IN: 43,735 personsSouth Bend, IN43,735Lafayette, IN: 35,884 personsLafayette, IN35,884Bloomington, IN: 35,186 personsBloomington, IN35,186Hammond, IN: 32,284 personsHammond, IN32,284Noblesville, IN: 31,241 personsNoblesville, IN31,241Muncie, IN: 29,709 personsMuncie, IN29,709Greenwood, IN: 27,419 personsGreenwood, IN27,419Gary, IN: 24,679 personsGary, IN24,679Lawrence, IN: 24,401 personsLawrence, IN24,401Kokomo, IN: 24,105 personsKokomo, IN24,105Columbus, IN: 24,103 personsColumbus, IN24,103Terre Haute, IN: 23,933 personsTerre Haute, IN23,933Mishawaka, IN: 23,610 personsMishawaka, IN23,610Elkhart, IN: 23,555 personsElkhart, IN23,555Jeffersonville, IN: 23,225 personsJeffersonville, IN23,225Anderson, IN: 21,740 personsAnderson, IN21,740West Lafayette, IN: 20,045 personsWest Lafayette, IN20,045Westfield, IN: 19,230 personsWestfield, IN19,230New Albany, IN: 17,346 personsNew Albany, IN17,346Portage, IN: 16,690 personsPortage, IN16,690Merrillville, IN: 15,830 personsMerrillville, IN15,830Goshen, IN: 15,652 personsGoshen, IN15,652Valparaiso, IN: 15,217 personsValparaiso, IN15,217Schererville, IN: 15,192 personsSchererville, IN15,192Richmond, IN: 14,094 personsRichmond, IN14,094Plainfield, IN: 14,041 personsPlainfield, IN14,041Crown Point, IN: 13,927 personsCrown Point, IN13,927Hobart, IN: 13,828 personsHobart, IN13,828Brownsburg, IN: 13,605 personsBrownsburg, IN13,605Zionsville, IN: 13,112 personsZionsville, IN13,112Marion, IN: 12,116 personsMarion, IN12,116Michigan City, IN: 12,051 personsMichigan City, IN12,051Franklin, IN: 11,231 personsFranklin, IN11,231East Chicago, IN: 9,217 personsEast Chicago, IN9,217
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2015
persons		Change on 2014
1Indianapolis, IN406,595+2.5%
2Fort Wayne, IN116,819+2.5%
3Evansville, IN56,081+1%
4Fishers, IN46,747+4.9%
5Carmel, IN45,511+4.5%
6South Bend, IN43,735+2.9%
7Lafayette, IN35,884+1.9%
8Bloomington, IN35,186+0.6%
9Hammond, IN32,284+0.2%
10Noblesville, IN31,241+4.8%
11Muncie, IN29,709+3%
12Greenwood, IN27,419+4.3%
13Gary, IN24,679+0.2%
14Lawrence, IN24,401+2.6%
15Kokomo, IN24,105+3.6%
16Columbus, IN24,103+3.1%
17Terre Haute, IN23,933+0.6%
18Mishawaka, IN23,610+2.7%
19Elkhart, IN23,555+4.8%
20Jeffersonville, IN23,225+3.1%
21Anderson, IN21,740+2%
22West Lafayette, IN20,045+43.6%
23Westfield, IN19,230+6.3%
24New Albany, IN17,346+2.4%
25Portage, IN16,690+1.2%
26Merrillville, IN15,830+0.6%
27Goshen, IN15,652+5.2%
28Valparaiso, IN15,217+2.1%
29Schererville, IN15,192+0.7%
30Richmond, IN14,094+0.5%
31Plainfield, IN14,041+2.7%
32Crown Point, IN13,927+2.1%
33Hobart, IN13,828+0.4%
34Brownsburg, IN13,605+9.4%
35Zionsville, IN13,112+4.6%
36Marion, IN12,116+1.2%
37Michigan City, IN12,051+1.1%
38Franklin, IN11,231+3.2%
39East Chicago, IN9,217+0.2%

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 2015 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.CurrentU15-19. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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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, 2015) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19

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Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Indiana by employed residents, 2015. 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/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2015. 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, 2015. 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/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2015.

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, 2015 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2015 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest employed residents?

Indianapolis, IN, with 406,595 in 2015, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

East Chicago, IN, with 9,217 in 2015.

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 2015 and are not ranked.

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