# Cities in New York by employed residents, 2025

All 39 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/new-york-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | New York, NY | 4,169,104 |
| 2 | Buffalo, NY | 117,389 |
| 3 | Yonkers, NY | 106,592 |
| 4 | Rochester, NY | 92,876 |
| 5 | Syracuse, NY | 61,270 |
| 6 | Albany, NY | 50,044 |
| 7 | New Rochelle, NY | 44,540 |
| 8 | Mount Vernon, NY | 37,833 |
| 9 | White Plains, NY | 33,144 |
| 10 | Schenectady, NY | 30,448 |
| 11 | Hempstead, NY | 27,598 |
| 12 | Utica, NY | 24,199 |
| 13 | Troy, NY | 23,178 |
| 14 | Freeport, NY | 22,632 |
| 15 | Valley Stream, NY | 21,191 |
| 16 | Long Beach, NY | 19,856 |
| 17 | Niagara Falls, NY | 19,778 |
| 18 | Binghamton, NY | 19,314 |
| 19 | Port Chester, NY | 17,256 |
| 20 | Harrison, NY | 15,727 |
| 21 | Poughkeepsie, NY | 15,330 |
| 22 | Saratoga Springs, NY | 14,827 |
| 23 | Spring Valley, NY | 14,731 |
| 24 | North Tonawanda, NY | 14,534 |
| 25 | Ithaca, NY | 14,519 |
| 26 | Peekskill, NY | 14,393 |
| 27 | Ossining, NY | 14,014 |
| 28 | Lindenhurst, NY | 13,811 |
| 29 | Glen Cove, NY | 13,630 |
| 30 | Middletown, NY | 13,378 |
| 31 | Newburgh, NY | 12,420 |
| 32 | Rome, NY | 12,255 |
| 33 | Rockville Centre, NY | 12,236 |
| 34 | Jamestown, NY | 11,016 |
| 35 | Auburn, NY | 10,953 |
| 36 | Watertown, NY | 10,366 |
| 37 | Kiryas Joel, NY | 10,024 |
| 38 | Lockport, NY | 9,905 |
| 39 | Elmira, NY | 9,477 |