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Cities in Indiana by employed residents

Indianapolis, IN had the highest employed residents of 39 cities in 2016, at 422,789. East Chicago, IN had the lowest, at 10,611. The median was 23,192. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest422,789Indianapolis, IN
Lowest10,611East Chicago, IN
Median23,19239 cities

All cities, 2016

Indianapolis, IN: 422,789 personsIndianapolis, IN422,789Fort Wayne, IN: 122,188 personsFort Wayne, IN122,188Evansville, IN: 56,085 personsEvansville, IN56,085Carmel, IN: 48,810 personsCarmel, IN48,810Fishers, IN: 48,574 personsFishers, IN48,574South Bend, IN: 47,027 personsSouth Bend, IN47,027Bloomington, IN: 38,880 personsBloomington, IN38,880Lafayette, IN: 36,055 personsLafayette, IN36,055Hammond, IN: 35,137 personsHammond, IN35,137Noblesville, IN: 33,382 personsNoblesville, IN33,382Muncie, IN: 30,347 personsMuncie, IN30,347Greenwood, IN: 29,973 personsGreenwood, IN29,973Kokomo, IN: 26,597 personsKokomo, IN26,597Lawrence, IN: 25,204 personsLawrence, IN25,204Elkhart, IN: 24,732 personsElkhart, IN24,732Terre Haute, IN: 24,706 personsTerre Haute, IN24,706Mishawaka, IN: 24,110 personsMishawaka, IN24,110Jeffersonville, IN: 23,997 personsJeffersonville, IN23,997Columbus, IN: 23,872 personsColumbus, IN23,872Anderson, IN: 23,192 personsAnderson, IN23,192Gary, IN: 22,773 personsGary, IN22,773Westfield, IN: 20,185 personsWestfield, IN20,185West Lafayette, IN: 18,202 personsWest Lafayette, IN18,202New Albany, IN: 17,453 personsNew Albany, IN17,453Portage, IN: 17,266 personsPortage, IN17,266Merrillville, IN: 16,723 personsMerrillville, IN16,723Valparaiso, IN: 15,985 personsValparaiso, IN15,985Richmond, IN: 15,294 personsRichmond, IN15,294Schererville, IN: 14,834 personsSchererville, IN14,834Goshen, IN: 14,725 personsGoshen, IN14,725Hobart, IN: 14,529 personsHobart, IN14,529Crown Point, IN: 14,440 personsCrown Point, IN14,440Plainfield, IN: 14,132 personsPlainfield, IN14,132Brownsburg, IN: 14,076 personsBrownsburg, IN14,076Zionsville, IN: 13,828 personsZionsville, IN13,828Michigan City, IN: 12,982 personsMichigan City, IN12,982Marion, IN: 11,751 personsMarion, IN11,751Franklin, IN: 11,232 personsFranklin, IN11,232East Chicago, IN: 10,611 personsEast Chicago, IN10,611Indianapolis, IN: 422,789 personsIndianapolis, IN422,789Fort Wayne, IN: 122,188 personsFort Wayne, IN122,188Evansville, IN: 56,085 personsEvansville, IN56,085Carmel, IN: 48,810 personsCarmel, IN48,810Fishers, IN: 48,574 personsFishers, IN48,574South Bend, IN: 47,027 personsSouth Bend, IN47,027Bloomington, IN: 38,880 personsBloomington, IN38,880Lafayette, IN: 36,055 personsLafayette, IN36,055Hammond, IN: 35,137 personsHammond, IN35,137Noblesville, IN: 33,382 personsNoblesville, IN33,382Muncie, IN: 30,347 personsMuncie, IN30,347Greenwood, IN: 29,973 personsGreenwood, IN29,973Kokomo, IN: 26,597 personsKokomo, IN26,597Lawrence, IN: 25,204 personsLawrence, IN25,204Elkhart, IN: 24,732 personsElkhart, IN24,732Terre Haute, IN: 24,706 personsTerre Haute, IN24,706Mishawaka, IN: 24,110 personsMishawaka, IN24,110Jeffersonville, IN: 23,997 personsJeffersonville, IN23,997Columbus, IN: 23,872 personsColumbus, IN23,872Anderson, IN: 23,192 personsAnderson, IN23,192Gary, IN: 22,773 personsGary, IN22,773Westfield, IN: 20,185 personsWestfield, IN20,185West Lafayette, IN: 18,202 personsWest Lafayette, IN18,202New Albany, IN: 17,453 personsNew Albany, IN17,453Portage, IN: 17,266 personsPortage, IN17,266Merrillville, IN: 16,723 personsMerrillville, IN16,723Valparaiso, IN: 15,985 personsValparaiso, IN15,985Richmond, IN: 15,294 personsRichmond, IN15,294Schererville, IN: 14,834 personsSchererville, IN14,834Goshen, IN: 14,725 personsGoshen, IN14,725Hobart, IN: 14,529 personsHobart, IN14,529Crown Point, IN: 14,440 personsCrown Point, IN14,440Plainfield, IN: 14,132 personsPlainfield, IN14,132Brownsburg, IN: 14,076 personsBrownsburg, IN14,076Zionsville, IN: 13,828 personsZionsville, IN13,828Michigan City, IN: 12,982 personsMichigan City, IN12,982Marion, IN: 11,751 personsMarion, IN11,751Franklin, IN: 11,232 personsFranklin, IN11,232East Chicago, IN: 10,611 personsEast Chicago, IN10,611
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2016
persons		Change on 2015
1Indianapolis, IN422,789+4%
2Fort Wayne, IN122,188+4.6%
3Evansville, IN56,0850%
4Carmel, IN48,810+7.2%
5Fishers, IN48,574+3.9%
6South Bend, IN47,027+7.5%
7Bloomington, IN38,880+10.5%
8Lafayette, IN36,055+0.5%
9Hammond, IN35,137+8.8%
10Noblesville, IN33,382+6.9%
11Muncie, IN30,347+2.1%
12Greenwood, IN29,973+9.3%
13Kokomo, IN26,597+10.3%
14Lawrence, IN25,204+3.3%
15Elkhart, IN24,732+5%
16Terre Haute, IN24,706+3.2%
17Mishawaka, IN24,110+2.1%
18Jeffersonville, IN23,997+3.3%
19Columbus, IN23,872-1%
20Anderson, IN23,192+6.7%
21Gary, IN22,773-7.7%
22Westfield, IN20,185+5%
23West Lafayette, IN18,202-9.2%
24New Albany, IN17,453+0.6%
25Portage, IN17,266+3.5%
26Merrillville, IN16,723+5.6%
27Valparaiso, IN15,985+5%
28Richmond, IN15,294+8.5%
29Schererville, IN14,834-2.4%
30Goshen, IN14,725-5.9%
31Hobart, IN14,529+5.1%
32Crown Point, IN14,440+3.7%
33Plainfield, IN14,132+0.6%
34Brownsburg, IN14,076+3.5%
35Zionsville, IN13,828+5.5%
36Michigan City, IN12,982+7.7%
37Marion, IN11,751-3%
38Franklin, IN11,2320%
39East Chicago, IN10,611+15.1%

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 2016 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, 2016) [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, 2016. 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=2016. 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, 2016. 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=2016.

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, 2016 [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=2016 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest employed residents?

Indianapolis, IN, with 422,789 in 2016, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

East Chicago, IN, with 10,611 in 2016.

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 2016 and are not ranked.

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