# Cities in Indiana by unemployed people, 2025

All 40 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `unemployed_persons`
- Unit: persons
- Definition: Residents with no job who were available for work and had looked for work in the previous four weeks, or were waiting to be recalled from a layoff, 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: unemployment (measure 04), 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: unemployment (measure 04), 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/unemployed-people/indiana-cities

| Rank | Place | persons |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Indianapolis, IN | 17,695 |
| 2 | Fort Wayne, IN | 4,945 |
| 3 | Evansville, IN | 2,164 |
| 4 | Gary, IN | 2,096 |
| 5 | South Bend, IN | 2,092 |
| 6 | Hammond, IN | 1,871 |
| 7 | Carmel, IN | 1,676 |
| 8 | Kokomo, IN | 1,669 |
| 9 | Fishers, IN | 1,665 |
| 10 | Bloomington, IN | 1,525 |
| 11 | Lafayette, IN | 1,437 |
| 12 | Muncie, IN | 1,348 |
| 13 | Noblesville, IN | 1,255 |
| 14 | Greenwood, IN | 1,122 |
| 15 | Elkhart, IN | 1,112 |
| 16 | Anderson, IN | 1,093 |
| 17 | Terre Haute, IN | 1,092 |
| 18 | Merrillville, IN | 1,062 |
| 19 | Mishawaka, IN | 1,041 |
| 20 | Jeffersonville, IN | 1,019 |
| 21 | Westfield, IN | 995 |
| 22 | Lawrence, IN | 961 |
| 23 | Portage, IN | 884 |
| 24 | Columbus, IN | 873 |
| 25 | New Albany, IN | 768 |
| 26 | Hobart, IN | 763 |
| 27 | Crown Point, IN | 751 |
| 28 | West Lafayette, IN | 688 |
| 29 | East Chicago, IN | 680 |
| 30 | Richmond, IN | 660 |
| 31 | Valparaiso, IN | 652 |
| 32 | Michigan City, IN | 645 |
| 33 | Plainfield, IN | 637 |
| 34 | Schererville, IN | 629 |
| 35 | Goshen, IN | 610 |
| 36 | Marion, IN | 576 |
| 37 | Brownsburg, IN | 547 |
| 38 | Zionsville, IN | 479 |
| 39 | Franklin, IN | 468 |
| 40 | Greenfield, IN | 456 |