# Cities in Kentucky by employed residents, 2025

All 16 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employed_residents`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents who did any work for pay or profit in the reference week, or were temporarily absent from a job, annual average. 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.
- Source: 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.CurrentU25-29)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: 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.CurrentU25-29. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/kentucky-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Lexington, KY | 172,327 |
| 2 | Bowling Green, KY | 38,336 |
| 3 | Owensboro, KY | 26,475 |
| 4 | Covington, KY | 20,906 |
| 5 | Georgetown, KY | 20,643 |
| 6 | Richmond, KY | 19,265 |
| 7 | Florence, KY | 16,884 |
| 8 | Independence, KY | 15,846 |
| 9 | Nicholasville, KY | 15,812 |
| 10 | Elizabethtown, KY | 15,327 |
| 11 | Frankfort, KY | 13,808 |
| 12 | Jeffersontown, KY | 13,742 |
| 13 | Paducah, KY | 12,456 |
| 14 | Hopkinsville, KY | 11,495 |
| 15 | Henderson, KY | 11,467 |
| 16 | Ashland, KY | 8,402 |