Data / Rankings / Employed residents / Cities in Michigan

Cities in Michigan by employed residents

Detroit, MI had the highest employed residents of 50 cities in 2019, at 237,219. Hamtramck, MI had the lowest, at 8,209. The median was 23,984. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Keep it in a collection in your library.
Highest237,219Detroit, MI
Lowest8,209Hamtramck, MI
Median23,98450 cities

All cities, 2019

Detroit, MI: 237,219 personsDetroit, MI237,219Grand Rapids, MI: 105,493 personsGrand Rapids, MI105,493Warren, MI: 66,984 personsWarren, MI66,984Ann Arbor, MI: 66,857 personsAnn Arbor, MI66,857Sterling Heights, MI: 65,052 personsSterling Heights, MI65,052Lansing, MI: 56,877 personsLansing, MI56,877Livonia, MI: 48,791 personsLivonia, MI48,791Troy, MI: 45,665 personsTroy, MI45,665Farmington Hills, MI: 45,319 personsFarmington Hills, MI45,319Dearborn, MI: 43,984 personsDearborn, MI43,984Westland, MI: 42,432 personsWestland, MI42,432Wyoming, MI: 41,315 personsWyoming, MI41,315Rochester Hills, MI: 38,106 personsRochester Hills, MI38,106Kalamazoo, MI: 37,757 personsKalamazoo, MI37,757Southfield, MI: 37,064 personsSouthfield, MI37,064Royal Oak, MI: 36,810 personsRoyal Oak, MI36,810Novi, MI: 34,056 personsNovi, MI34,056St. Clair Shores, MI: 30,752 personsSt. Clair Shores, MI30,752Flint, MI: 28,948 personsFlint, MI28,948Taylor, MI: 28,941 personsTaylor, MI28,941Kentwood, MI: 28,388 personsKentwood, MI28,388Pontiac, MI: 27,105 personsPontiac, MI27,105Dearborn Heights, MI: 26,883 personsDearborn Heights, MI26,883Portage, MI: 25,840 personsPortage, MI25,840Roseville, MI: 24,301 personsRoseville, MI24,301Battle Creek, MI: 23,667 personsBattle Creek, MI23,667East Lansing, MI: 23,168 personsEast Lansing, MI23,168Midland, MI: 19,656 personsMidland, MI19,656Holland, MI: 18,897 personsHolland, MI18,897Lincoln Park, MI: 17,463 personsLincoln Park, MI17,463Saginaw, MI: 16,564 personsSaginaw, MI16,564Madison Heights, MI: 16,175 personsMadison Heights, MI16,175Oak Park, MI: 15,022 personsOak Park, MI15,022Eastpointe, MI: 15,014 personsEastpointe, MI15,014Allen Park, MI: 14,977 personsAllen Park, MI14,977Bay City, MI: 14,713 personsBay City, MI14,713Southgate, MI: 14,638 personsSouthgate, MI14,638Muskegon, MI: 14,468 personsMuskegon, MI14,468Walker, MI: 13,661 personsWalker, MI13,661Garden City, MI: 13,417 personsGarden City, MI13,417Jackson, MI: 13,372 personsJackson, MI13,372Ferndale, MI: 13,309 personsFerndale, MI13,309Burton, MI: 13,117 personsBurton, MI13,117Port Huron, MI: 12,776 personsPort Huron, MI12,776Wyandotte, MI: 12,573 personsWyandotte, MI12,573Norton Shores, MI: 11,582 personsNorton Shores, MI11,582Romulus, MI: 11,527 personsRomulus, MI11,527Mount Pleasant, MI: 11,288 personsMount Pleasant, MI11,288Inkster, MI: 10,258 personsInkster, MI10,258Hamtramck, MI: 8,209 personsHamtramck, MI8,209Detroit, MI: 237,219 personsDetroit, MI237,219Grand Rapids, MI: 105,493 personsGrand Rapids, MI105,493Warren, MI: 66,984 personsWarren, MI66,984Ann Arbor, MI: 66,857 personsAnn Arbor, MI66,857Sterling Heights, MI: 65,052 personsSterling Heights, MI65,052Lansing, MI: 56,877 personsLansing, MI56,877Livonia, MI: 48,791 personsLivonia, MI48,791Troy, MI: 45,665 personsTroy, MI45,665Farmington Hills, MI: 45,319 personsFarmington Hills, MI45,319Dearborn, MI: 43,984 personsDearborn, MI43,984Westland, MI: 42,432 personsWestland, MI42,432Wyoming, MI: 41,315 personsWyoming, MI41,315Rochester Hills, MI: 38,106 personsRochester Hills, MI38,106Kalamazoo, MI: 37,757 personsKalamazoo, MI37,757Southfield, MI: 37,064 personsSouthfield, MI37,064Royal Oak, MI: 36,810 personsRoyal Oak, MI36,810Novi, MI: 34,056 personsNovi, MI34,056St. Clair Shores, MI: 30,752 personsSt. Clair Shores, MI30,752Flint, MI: 28,948 personsFlint, MI28,948Taylor, MI: 28,941 personsTaylor, MI28,941Kentwood, MI: 28,388 personsKentwood, MI28,388Pontiac, MI: 27,105 personsPontiac, MI27,105Dearborn Heights, MI: 26,883 personsDearborn Heights, MI26,883Portage, MI: 25,840 personsPortage, MI25,840Roseville, MI: 24,301 personsRoseville, MI24,301Battle Creek, MI: 23,667 personsBattle Creek, MI23,667East Lansing, MI: 23,168 personsEast Lansing, MI23,168Midland, MI: 19,656 personsMidland, MI19,656Holland, MI: 18,897 personsHolland, MI18,897Lincoln Park, MI: 17,463 personsLincoln Park, MI17,463Saginaw, MI: 16,564 personsSaginaw, MI16,564Madison Heights, MI: 16,175 personsMadison Heights, MI16,175Oak Park, MI: 15,022 personsOak Park, MI15,022Eastpointe, MI: 15,014 personsEastpointe, MI15,014Allen Park, MI: 14,977 personsAllen Park, MI14,977Bay City, MI: 14,713 personsBay City, MI14,713Southgate, MI: 14,638 personsSouthgate, MI14,638Muskegon, MI: 14,468 personsMuskegon, MI14,468Walker, MI: 13,661 personsWalker, MI13,661Garden City, MI: 13,417 personsGarden City, MI13,417Jackson, MI: 13,372 personsJackson, MI13,372Ferndale, MI: 13,309 personsFerndale, MI13,309Burton, MI: 13,117 personsBurton, MI13,117Port Huron, MI: 12,776 personsPort Huron, MI12,776Wyandotte, MI: 12,573 personsWyandotte, MI12,573Norton Shores, MI: 11,582 personsNorton Shores, MI11,582Romulus, MI: 11,527 personsRomulus, MI11,527Mount Pleasant, MI: 11,288 personsMount Pleasant, MI11,288Inkster, MI: 10,258 personsInkster, MI10,258Hamtramck, MI: 8,209 personsHamtramck, MI8,209
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2019
persons		Change on 2018
1Detroit, MI237,219+1.2%
2Grand Rapids, MI105,493+0.5%
3Warren, MI66,984+0.6%
4Ann Arbor, MI66,857+0.9%
5Sterling Heights, MI65,052+0.7%
6Lansing, MI56,877-0%
7Livonia, MI48,791+1.3%
8Troy, MI45,665+1%
9Farmington Hills, MI45,319+0.6%
10Dearborn, MI43,984+1.2%
11Westland, MI42,432+1.3%
12Wyoming, MI41,315-0.2%
13Rochester Hills, MI38,106+0.9%
14Kalamazoo, MI37,7570%
15Southfield, MI37,064+0.6%
16Royal Oak, MI36,810+0.9%
17Novi, MI34,056+1.2%
18St. Clair Shores, MI30,752+0.4%
19Flint, MI28,948+0.2%
20Taylor, MI28,941+1.2%
21Kentwood, MI28,388+0.2%
22Pontiac, MI27,105+0.5%
23Dearborn Heights, MI26,883+1.2%
24Portage, MI25,840+1%
25Roseville, MI24,301+0.4%
26Battle Creek, MI23,667-1%
27East Lansing, MI23,168+0.4%
28Midland, MI19,656-1.2%
29Holland, MI18,897+0.2%
30Lincoln Park, MI17,463+1.1%
31Saginaw, MI16,564-0.6%
32Madison Heights, MI16,175+0.5%
33Oak Park, MI15,022+0.5%
34Eastpointe, MI15,014+0.4%
35Allen Park, MI14,977+1.1%
36Bay City, MI14,713-0.5%
37Southgate, MI14,638+1.1%
38Muskegon, MI14,468-2.7%
39Walker, MI13,661+0.2%
40Garden City, MI13,417+1.1%
41Jackson, MI13,372+0.1%
42Ferndale, MI13,309+0.9%
43Burton, MI13,117+0.5%
44Port Huron, MI12,776+0.6%
45Wyandotte, MI12,573+1.2%
46Norton Shores, MI11,582-0.5%
47Romulus, MI11,527+1.7%
48Mount Pleasant, MI11,288-2.2%
49Inkster, MI10,258+1.1%
50Hamtramck, MI8,209+1.2%

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 2019 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.

Citation styles

The publisher is the author. Invokely is named only as the place the figures were read, where a style asks for it.

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 Michigan by employed residents, 2019) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19

MLA 9

Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average, Cities in Michigan by employed residents, 2019. 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/michigan-cities?period=2019. 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 Michigan by employed residents, 2019. 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/michigan-cities?period=2019.

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 Michigan by employed residents, 2019 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/michigan-cities?period=2019 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{bureau_cities_in_michigan_by_2019,
  author = {{U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics}},
  title = {{Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average: Cities in Michigan by employed residents, 2019}},
  year = {2026},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/michigan-cities?period=2019. Publisher attribution: 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.},
}
RIS
TY  - DATA
AU  - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
TI  - Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: employment (measure 05), annual average: Cities in Michigan by employed residents, 2019
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/30
PB  - U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
DB  - Invokely
UR  - https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU15-19
L2  - https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/michigan-cities?period=2019
Y2  - 2026/10/12
N1  - Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employed-residents/michigan-cities?period=2019.
N1  - Publisher attribution: 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.
ER  -
Embed this chart

Paste this code into a web page or a blog post. The chart shows the latest figures as they are published, with the source and a link back to this page.

Sites that read oEmbed links, such as WordPress, can show the chart when you paste the link to this page.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

Rank Cities in Michigan by employed residents using official data, and cite the source.
rank_places {"indicator":"employed_residents","level":"municipality","within":"Michigan","limit":10}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=employed_residents&level=municipality&within=Michigan&limit=10

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

Which city has the highest employed residents?

Detroit, MI, with 237,219 in 2019, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest employed residents?

Hamtramck, MI, with 8,209 in 2019.

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 2019 and are not ranked.

Employed residents: other rankings

Cities in Michigan: more rankings