Cities in Indiana by unemployed people

Indianapolis, IN had the highest unemployed people of 39 cities in 2014, at 27,482. Zionsville, IN had the lowest, at 457. The median was 1,337. Source: the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

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Highest27,482Indianapolis, IN
Median1,33739 cities

All cities, 2014

Indianapolis, IN: 27,482 personsIndianapolis, IN27,482Fort Wayne, IN: 7,331 personsFort Wayne, IN7,331Evansville, IN: 3,438 personsEvansville, IN3,438South Bend, IN: 3,428 personsSouth Bend, IN3,428Gary, IN: 3,137 personsGary, IN3,137Hammond, IN: 2,820 personsHammond, IN2,820Muncie, IN: 2,257 personsMuncie, IN2,257Bloomington, IN: 2,237 personsBloomington, IN2,237Terre Haute, IN: 2,100 personsTerre Haute, IN2,100Lafayette, IN: 1,903 personsLafayette, IN1,903Anderson, IN: 1,877 personsAnderson, IN1,877Fishers, IN: 1,801 personsFishers, IN1,801Carmel, IN: 1,774 personsCarmel, IN1,774Mishawaka, IN: 1,575 personsMishawaka, IN1,575Kokomo, IN: 1,516 personsKokomo, IN1,516Elkhart, IN: 1,503 personsElkhart, IN1,503Lawrence, IN: 1,487 personsLawrence, IN1,487Greenwood, IN: 1,440 personsGreenwood, IN1,440Merrillville, IN: 1,354 personsMerrillville, IN1,354Noblesville, IN: 1,337 personsNoblesville, IN1,337Portage, IN: 1,327 personsPortage, IN1,327Hobart, IN: 1,313 personsHobart, IN1,313Jeffersonville, IN: 1,096 personsJeffersonville, IN1,096East Chicago, IN: 1,088 personsEast Chicago, IN1,088Richmond, IN: 1,081 personsRichmond, IN1,081New Albany, IN: 1,075 personsNew Albany, IN1,075Marion, IN: 1,069 personsMarion, IN1,069Michigan City, IN: 1,036 personsMichigan City, IN1,036Columbus, IN: 1,007 personsColumbus, IN1,007Crown Point, IN: 990 personsCrown Point, IN990Schererville, IN: 908 personsSchererville, IN908Valparaiso, IN: 902 personsValparaiso, IN902Goshen, IN: 777 personsGoshen, IN777Plainfield, IN: 739 personsPlainfield, IN739Westfield, IN: 689 personsWestfield, IN689Franklin, IN: 654 personsFranklin, IN654West Lafayette, IN: 623 personsWest Lafayette, IN623Brownsburg, IN: 552 personsBrownsburg, IN552Zionsville, IN: 457 personsZionsville, IN457Indianapolis, IN: 27,482 personsIndianapolis, IN27,482Fort Wayne, IN: 7,331 personsFort Wayne, IN7,331Evansville, IN: 3,438 personsEvansville, IN3,438South Bend, IN: 3,428 personsSouth Bend, IN3,428Gary, IN: 3,137 personsGary, IN3,137Hammond, IN: 2,820 personsHammond, IN2,820Muncie, IN: 2,257 personsMuncie, IN2,257Bloomington, IN: 2,237 personsBloomington, IN2,237Terre Haute, IN: 2,100 personsTerre Haute, IN2,100Lafayette, IN: 1,903 personsLafayette, IN1,903Anderson, IN: 1,877 personsAnderson, IN1,877Fishers, IN: 1,801 personsFishers, IN1,801Carmel, IN: 1,774 personsCarmel, IN1,774Mishawaka, IN: 1,575 personsMishawaka, IN1,575Kokomo, IN: 1,516 personsKokomo, IN1,516Elkhart, IN: 1,503 personsElkhart, IN1,503Lawrence, IN: 1,487 personsLawrence, IN1,487Greenwood, IN: 1,440 personsGreenwood, IN1,440Merrillville, IN: 1,354 personsMerrillville, IN1,354Noblesville, IN: 1,337 personsNoblesville, IN1,337Portage, IN: 1,327 personsPortage, IN1,327Hobart, IN: 1,313 personsHobart, IN1,313Jeffersonville, IN: 1,096 personsJeffersonville, IN1,096East Chicago, IN: 1,088 personsEast Chicago, IN1,088Richmond, IN: 1,081 personsRichmond, IN1,081New Albany, IN: 1,075 personsNew Albany, IN1,075Marion, IN: 1,069 personsMarion, IN1,069Michigan City, IN: 1,036 personsMichigan City, IN1,036Columbus, IN: 1,007 personsColumbus, IN1,007Crown Point, IN: 990 personsCrown Point, IN990Schererville, IN: 908 personsSchererville, IN908Valparaiso, IN: 902 personsValparaiso, IN902Goshen, IN: 777 personsGoshen, IN777Plainfield, IN: 739 personsPlainfield, IN739Westfield, IN: 689 personsWestfield, IN689Franklin, IN: 654 personsFranklin, IN654West Lafayette, IN: 623 personsWest Lafayette, IN623Brownsburg, IN: 552 personsBrownsburg, IN552Zionsville, IN: 457 personsZionsville, IN457
persons. Source: BLS, Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: unemployment (measure 04), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCities2014
persons
Change on 2013
1Indianapolis, IN27,482-22.1%
2Fort Wayne, IN7,331-22.3%
3Evansville, IN3,438-22.7%
4South Bend, IN3,428-23.3%
5Gary, IN3,137-17.4%
6Hammond, IN2,820-14.7%
7Muncie, IN2,257-18.5%
8Bloomington, IN2,237-12.5%
9Terre Haute, IN2,100-19.3%
10Lafayette, IN1,903-26.8%
11Anderson, IN1,877-24.7%
12Fishers, IN1,801-13.8%
13Carmel, IN1,774-15.1%
14Mishawaka, IN1,575-24.1%
15Kokomo, IN1,516-21.3%
16Elkhart, IN1,503-29%
17Lawrence, IN1,487-22.3%
18Greenwood, IN1,440-15.6%
19Merrillville, IN1,354-10.3%
20Noblesville, IN1,337-15.6%
21Portage, IN1,327-9.8%
22Hobart, IN1,313-5.3%
23Jeffersonville, IN1,096-19.9%
24East Chicago, IN1,088-5.8%
25Richmond, IN1,081-21.2%
26New Albany, IN1,075-17.6%
27Marion, IN1,069-21.3%
28Michigan City, IN1,036-22.4%
29Columbus, IN1,007-27%
30Crown Point, IN990-8.9%
31Schererville, IN908-8.3%
32Valparaiso, IN902-15.9%
33Goshen, IN777-26.5%
34Plainfield, IN739-14.8%
35Westfield, IN689-10.8%
36Franklin, IN654-18.7%
37West Lafayette, IN623-10.4%
38Brownsburg, IN552-17.7%
39Zionsville, IN457-12.5%

Other periods

About this ranking

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.

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. The survey definition, not a count of benefit claimants. 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 2014 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: unemployment (measure 04), annual average. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14. 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: unemployment (measure 04), annual average (Cities in Indiana by unemployed people, 2014) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14

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Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: unemployment (measure 04), annual average, Cities in Indiana by unemployed people, 2014. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 30 Sept. 2026, https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployed-people/indiana-cities?period=2014. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. 2026. Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: unemployment (measure 04), annual average. Cities in Indiana by unemployed people, 2014. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployed-people/indiana-cities?period=2014.

Harvard

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (2026) Local Area Unemployment Statistics, cities and towns, not seasonally adjusted: unemployment (measure 04), annual average, Cities in Indiana by unemployed people, 2014 [Dataset]. Available at: https://download.bls.gov/pub/time.series/la/la.data.0.CurrentU10-14, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/unemployed-people/indiana-cities?period=2014 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

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Which city has the highest unemployed people?

Indianapolis, IN, with 27,482 in 2014, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

Which city has the lowest unemployed people?

Zionsville, IN, with 457 in 2014.

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: unemployment (measure 04), annual average. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 cities have no value for 2014 and are not ranked.

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