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Cities in Indiana by employed residents

Indianapolis, IN had the highest employed residents of 39 cities in 2017, at 426,349. East Chicago, IN had the lowest, at 10,541. The median was 23,169. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest426,349Indianapolis, IN
Lowest10,541East Chicago, IN
Median23,16939 cities

All cities, 2017

Indianapolis, IN: 426,349 personsIndianapolis, IN426,349Fort Wayne, IN: 123,579 personsFort Wayne, IN123,579Evansville, IN: 56,500 personsEvansville, IN56,500Fishers, IN: 49,637 personsFishers, IN49,637Carmel, IN: 49,590 personsCarmel, IN49,590South Bend, IN: 47,371 personsSouth Bend, IN47,371Bloomington, IN: 39,447 personsBloomington, IN39,447Lafayette, IN: 36,421 personsLafayette, IN36,421Hammond, IN: 34,959 personsHammond, IN34,959Noblesville, IN: 34,277 personsNoblesville, IN34,277Greenwood, IN: 30,525 personsGreenwood, IN30,525Muncie, IN: 30,115 personsMuncie, IN30,115Kokomo, IN: 26,782 personsKokomo, IN26,782Elkhart, IN: 25,652 personsElkhart, IN25,652Lawrence, IN: 25,465 personsLawrence, IN25,465Terre Haute, IN: 24,787 personsTerre Haute, IN24,787Mishawaka, IN: 24,363 personsMishawaka, IN24,363Jeffersonville, IN: 24,339 personsJeffersonville, IN24,339Columbus, IN: 23,981 personsColumbus, IN23,981Anderson, IN: 23,169 personsAnderson, IN23,169Gary, IN: 22,629 personsGary, IN22,629Westfield, IN: 21,284 personsWestfield, IN21,284West Lafayette, IN: 18,352 personsWest Lafayette, IN18,352New Albany, IN: 17,501 personsNew Albany, IN17,501Portage, IN: 17,357 personsPortage, IN17,357Merrillville, IN: 16,697 personsMerrillville, IN16,697Valparaiso, IN: 16,227 personsValparaiso, IN16,227Richmond, IN: 15,408 personsRichmond, IN15,408Goshen, IN: 15,331 personsGoshen, IN15,331Plainfield, IN: 14,876 personsPlainfield, IN14,876Schererville, IN: 14,835 personsSchererville, IN14,835Crown Point, IN: 14,642 personsCrown Point, IN14,642Hobart, IN: 14,530 personsHobart, IN14,530Brownsburg, IN: 14,376 personsBrownsburg, IN14,376Zionsville, IN: 14,144 personsZionsville, IN14,144Michigan City, IN: 12,943 personsMichigan City, IN12,943Marion, IN: 11,749 personsMarion, IN11,749Franklin, IN: 11,357 personsFranklin, IN11,357East Chicago, IN: 10,541 personsEast Chicago, IN10,541Indianapolis, IN: 426,349 personsIndianapolis, IN426,349Fort Wayne, IN: 123,579 personsFort Wayne, IN123,579Evansville, IN: 56,500 personsEvansville, IN56,500Fishers, IN: 49,637 personsFishers, IN49,637Carmel, IN: 49,590 personsCarmel, IN49,590South Bend, IN: 47,371 personsSouth Bend, IN47,371Bloomington, IN: 39,447 personsBloomington, IN39,447Lafayette, IN: 36,421 personsLafayette, IN36,421Hammond, IN: 34,959 personsHammond, IN34,959Noblesville, IN: 34,277 personsNoblesville, IN34,277Greenwood, IN: 30,525 personsGreenwood, IN30,525Muncie, IN: 30,115 personsMuncie, IN30,115Kokomo, IN: 26,782 personsKokomo, IN26,782Elkhart, IN: 25,652 personsElkhart, IN25,652Lawrence, IN: 25,465 personsLawrence, IN25,465Terre Haute, IN: 24,787 personsTerre Haute, IN24,787Mishawaka, IN: 24,363 personsMishawaka, IN24,363Jeffersonville, IN: 24,339 personsJeffersonville, IN24,339Columbus, IN: 23,981 personsColumbus, IN23,981Anderson, IN: 23,169 personsAnderson, IN23,169Gary, IN: 22,629 personsGary, IN22,629Westfield, IN: 21,284 personsWestfield, IN21,284West Lafayette, IN: 18,352 personsWest Lafayette, IN18,352New Albany, IN: 17,501 personsNew Albany, IN17,501Portage, IN: 17,357 personsPortage, IN17,357Merrillville, IN: 16,697 personsMerrillville, IN16,697Valparaiso, IN: 16,227 personsValparaiso, IN16,227Richmond, IN: 15,408 personsRichmond, IN15,408Goshen, IN: 15,331 personsGoshen, IN15,331Plainfield, IN: 14,876 personsPlainfield, IN14,876Schererville, IN: 14,835 personsSchererville, IN14,835Crown Point, IN: 14,642 personsCrown Point, IN14,642Hobart, IN: 14,530 personsHobart, IN14,530Brownsburg, IN: 14,376 personsBrownsburg, IN14,376Zionsville, IN: 14,144 personsZionsville, IN14,144Michigan City, IN: 12,943 personsMichigan City, IN12,943Marion, IN: 11,749 personsMarion, IN11,749Franklin, IN: 11,357 personsFranklin, IN11,357East Chicago, IN: 10,541 personsEast Chicago, IN10,541
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2017
persons		Change on 2016
1Indianapolis, IN426,349+0.8%
2Fort Wayne, IN123,579+1.1%
3Evansville, IN56,500+0.7%
4Fishers, IN49,637+2.2%
5Carmel, IN49,590+1.6%
6South Bend, IN47,371+0.7%
7Bloomington, IN39,447+1.5%
8Lafayette, IN36,421+1%
9Hammond, IN34,959-0.5%
10Noblesville, IN34,277+2.7%
11Greenwood, IN30,525+1.8%
12Muncie, IN30,115-0.8%
13Kokomo, IN26,782+0.7%
14Elkhart, IN25,652+3.7%
15Lawrence, IN25,465+1%
16Terre Haute, IN24,787+0.3%
17Mishawaka, IN24,363+1%
18Jeffersonville, IN24,339+1.4%
19Columbus, IN23,981+0.5%
20Anderson, IN23,169-0.1%
21Gary, IN22,629-0.6%
22Westfield, IN21,284+5.4%
23West Lafayette, IN18,352+0.8%
24New Albany, IN17,501+0.3%
25Portage, IN17,357+0.5%
26Merrillville, IN16,697-0.2%
27Valparaiso, IN16,227+1.5%
28Richmond, IN15,408+0.7%
29Goshen, IN15,331+4.1%
30Plainfield, IN14,876+5.3%
31Schererville, IN14,8350%
32Crown Point, IN14,642+1.4%
33Hobart, IN14,5300%
34Brownsburg, IN14,376+2.1%
35Zionsville, IN14,144+2.3%
36Michigan City, IN12,943-0.3%
37Marion, IN11,749-0%
38Franklin, IN11,357+1.1%
39East Chicago, IN10,541-0.7%

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 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: 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, 2017) [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, 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/employed-residents/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: employment (measure 05), annual average. Cities in Indiana by employed residents, 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/employed-residents/indiana-cities?period=2017.

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, 2017 [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=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest employed residents?

Indianapolis, IN, with 426,349 in 2017, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

East Chicago, IN, with 10,541 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: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 cities have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.

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