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Local Area Unemployment Statistics - New York City

Status of the Civilian Labor Force - New York City

Civilian Labor Force - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,045,886	4,045,599	4,047,400	4,052,849	4,060,929	4,070,290	4,078,252	4,081,804	4,081,018	4,079,036	4,078,203	4,078,585
2014	4,080,570	4,083,624	4,086,615	4,088,313	4,088,604	4,088,525	4,089,108	4,091,325	4,094,623	4,097,501	4,099,323	4,101,133
2015	4,102,656	4,103,202	4,103,094	4,101,681	4,097,794	4,091,095	4,083,676	4,077,619	4,074,208	4,074,608	4,078,186	4,082,040
2016	4,083,880	4,082,937	4,079,641	4,076,666	4,076,588	4,079,683	4,084,913	4,091,011	4,096,603	4,100,450	4,102,813	4,105,250
2017	4,277,572	4,285,301	4,293,803	4,301,819	4,308,587	4,313,385	4,314,900	4,312,352	4,306,645	4,299,268	4,291,736	4,285,758
2018	4,272,594	4,271,328	4,271,935	4,271,853	4,268,705	4,262,878	4,256,544	4,252,479	4,251,429	4,253,352	4,257,637	4,262,800
2019	4,267,363	4,269,825	4,269,425	4,266,912	4,264,013	4,261,786	4,260,487	4,260,193	4,262,622	4,268,073	4,274,975	4,280,022
2020	4,280,567	4,276,190	4,269,813	3,720,286	3,937,341	4,061,283	4,084,589	4,047,232	4,067,842	4,045,350	4,059,855	4,065,914
2021	4,070,174	4,075,152	4,076,465	4,088,882	4,086,988	4,116,222	4,106,555	4,111,508	4,091,212	4,093,748	4,093,657	4,110,209
2022	4,113,670	4,104,375	4,095,338	4,099,568	4,100,927	4,099,680	4,089,665	4,074,030	4,086,901	4,097,792	4,105,656	4,112,579
2023	4,125,364	4,138,484	4,148,381	4,156,557	4,171,150	4,184,884	4,186,203	(p)4,180,032
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	3,676,776	3,678,376	3,682,548	3,690,072	3,698,921	3,707,583	3,714,662	3,719,839	3,724,442	3,730,124	3,737,594	3,745,978
2014	3,755,435	3,765,329	3,774,372	3,782,023	3,789,417	3,797,541	3,806,182	3,815,153	3,823,550	3,830,840	3,836,889	3,842,353
2015	3,847,113	3,851,046	3,855,298	3,859,543	3,862,609	3,863,788	3,863,955	3,863,668	3,863,725	3,865,040	3,867,407	3,869,753
2016	3,871,169	3,871,026	3,869,320	3,867,577	3,867,127	3,868,262	3,871,190	3,875,960	3,881,935	3,888,678	3,896,596	3,905,682
2017	4,076,849	4,088,992	4,099,667	4,107,720	4,113,325	4,116,887	4,117,855	4,115,981	4,112,266	4,107,804	4,103,231	4,100,310
2018	4,088,835	4,089,884	4,092,876	4,095,568	4,095,441	4,092,322	4,087,579	4,083,074	4,079,051	4,076,414	4,076,525	4,079,204
2019	4,083,608	4,088,844	4,093,336	4,096,751	4,099,198	4,100,222	4,099,835	4,099,097	4,101,341	4,105,974	4,110,148	4,110,433
2020	4,104,862	4,093,110	4,079,042	3,248,594	3,093,828	3,365,560	3,411,805	3,448,352	3,486,351	3,511,295	3,535,136	3,554,297
2021	3,570,953	3,588,738	3,611,200	3,636,464	3,661,866	3,685,527	3,702,934	3,718,097	3,731,079	3,747,174	3,763,483	3,781,438
2022	3,800,369	3,820,294	3,839,193	3,858,830	3,874,414	3,885,409	3,889,446	3,888,351	3,885,439	3,885,847	3,893,473	3,902,643
2023	3,907,823	3,915,992	3,926,477	3,933,754	3,949,220	3,960,393	3,964,933	(p)3,960,381
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	369,110	367,223	364,852	362,777	362,008	362,707	363,590	361,965	356,576	348,912	340,609	332,607
2014	325,135	318,295	312,243	306,290	299,187	290,984	282,926	276,172	271,073	266,661	262,434	258,780
2015	255,543	252,156	247,796	242,138	235,185	227,307	219,721	213,951	210,483	209,568	210,779	212,287
2016	212,711	211,911	210,321	209,089	209,461	211,421	213,723	215,051	214,668	211,772	206,217	199,568
2017	200,723	196,309	194,136	194,099	195,262	196,498	197,045	196,371	194,379	191,464	188,505	185,448
2018	183,759	181,444	179,059	176,285	173,264	170,556	168,965	169,405	172,378	176,938	181,112	183,596
2019	183,755	180,981	176,089	170,161	164,815	161,564	160,652	161,096	161,281	162,099	164,827	169,589
2020	175,705	183,080	190,771	471,692	843,513	695,723	672,784	598,880	581,491	534,055	524,719	511,617
2021	499,221	486,414	465,265	452,418	425,122	430,695	403,621	393,411	360,133	346,574	330,174	328,771
2022	313,301	284,081	256,145	240,738	226,513	214,271	200,219	185,679	201,462	211,945	212,183	209,936
2023	217,541	222,492	221,904	222,803	221,930	224,491	221,270	(p)219,651
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9.1	9.1	9.0	9.0	8.9	8.9	8.9	8.9	8.7	8.6	8.4	8.2
2014	8.0	7.8	7.6	7.5	7.3	7.1	6.9	6.8	6.6	6.5	6.4	6.3
2015	6.2	6.1	6.0	5.9	5.7	5.6	5.4	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.2	5.2
2016	5.2	5.2	5.2	5.1	5.1	5.2	5.2	5.3	5.2	5.2	5.0	4.9
2017	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.5	4.6	4.6	4.6	4.5	4.5	4.4	4.3
2018	4.3	4.2	4.2	4.1	4.1	4.0	4.0	4.0	4.1	4.2	4.3	4.3
2019	4.3	4.2	4.1	4.0	3.9	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.9	4.0
2020	4.1	4.3	4.5	12.7	21.4	17.1	16.5	14.8	14.3	13.2	12.9	12.6
2021	12.3	11.9	11.4	11.1	10.4	10.5	9.8	9.6	8.8	8.5	8.1	8.0
2022	7.6	6.9	6.3	5.9	5.5	5.2	4.9	4.6	4.9	5.2	5.2	5.1
2023	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.3	5.4	5.3	(p)5.3
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Civilian Labor Force - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	4,052,335	4,060,225	4,037,902	4,038,537	4,052,254	4,077,096	4,113,334	4,092,475	4,064,725	4,077,369	4,065,804	4,050,764	4,065,235
2014	4,078,202	4,111,823	4,113,307	4,060,289	4,075,161	4,102,543	4,112,690	4,094,263	4,066,890	4,108,693	4,086,151	4,082,915	4,091,078
2015	4,101,838	4,125,207	4,113,967	4,095,893	4,097,712	4,087,605	4,108,503	4,083,965	4,040,138	4,073,342	4,066,094	4,074,367	4,089,053
2016	4,075,349	4,114,599	4,114,382	4,064,296	4,048,212	4,072,837	4,107,522	4,099,613	4,089,711	4,097,777	4,083,100	4,083,277	4,087,556
2017	4,274,446	4,317,178	4,329,153	4,292,091	4,280,591	4,300,703	4,342,922	4,299,717	4,315,408	4,300,745	4,275,451	4,258,690	4,298,924
2018	4,268,675	4,314,218	4,296,528	4,263,492	4,240,020	4,272,100	4,271,649	4,246,840	4,227,069	4,268,433	4,240,258	4,261,564	4,264,237
2019	4,263,086	4,294,436	4,295,177	4,259,837	4,239,995	4,260,268	4,261,656	4,255,597	4,262,328	4,288,927	4,256,705	4,254,770	4,266,066
2020	4,284,614	4,322,118	4,295,476	3,707,014	3,883,338	4,048,998	4,091,546	4,079,151	4,050,538	4,079,074	4,059,251	4,041,568	4,078,557
2021	4,054,066	4,088,725	4,102,683	4,094,591	4,047,792	4,102,547	4,131,533	4,122,588	4,081,882	4,104,302	4,087,800	4,085,159	4,091,972
2022	4,116,127	4,128,094	4,119,649	4,072,173	4,076,313	4,082,472	4,113,936	4,109,763	4,069,726	4,100,446	4,095,236	4,113,259	4,099,766
2023	4,127,249	4,170,666	4,165,718	4,132,960	4,167,838	4,194,971	4,175,438	(p)4,155,095
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Employment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	3,652,488	3,679,300	3,684,429	3,704,940	3,699,475	3,705,238	3,735,102	3,722,167	3,711,697	3,716,759	3,734,515	3,741,320	3,707,286
2014	3,744,626	3,773,062	3,792,183	3,782,583	3,786,244	3,812,645	3,808,953	3,805,036	3,806,558	3,845,073	3,824,449	3,840,866	3,801,857
2015	3,828,551	3,859,582	3,873,617	3,869,280	3,866,447	3,859,628	3,874,026	3,861,434	3,839,840	3,865,906	3,857,925	3,871,957	3,860,683
2016	3,850,010	3,892,137	3,898,822	3,870,629	3,859,358	3,861,955	3,877,324	3,872,944	3,872,323	3,881,708	3,888,735	3,902,678	3,877,385
2017	4,059,668	4,105,105	4,138,623	4,112,994	4,095,668	4,108,299	4,129,607	4,088,548	4,120,726	4,113,556	4,101,028	4,086,986	4,105,067
2018	4,072,159	4,121,320	4,114,359	4,097,537	4,087,112	4,091,124	4,083,644	4,062,864	4,060,810	4,099,005	4,076,332	4,090,453	4,088,060
2019	4,060,036	4,104,420	4,120,663	4,105,921	4,077,638	4,095,333	4,082,061	4,079,727	4,108,585	4,123,498	4,104,412	4,114,073	4,098,031
2020	4,109,342	4,141,201	4,069,746	3,252,041	3,046,955	3,355,196	3,385,947	3,469,727	3,470,584	3,548,976	3,558,115	3,563,344	3,580,931
2021	3,538,962	3,586,043	3,637,489	3,644,521	3,634,232	3,661,443	3,701,852	3,712,627	3,730,193	3,769,123	3,777,505	3,782,405	3,681,366
2022	3,793,738	3,832,306	3,860,497	3,840,513	3,856,501	3,859,855	3,890,725	3,897,289	3,886,152	3,896,257	3,888,791	3,907,975	3,867,550
2023	3,899,188	3,937,856	3,949,894	3,914,889	3,955,337	3,948,435	3,943,794	(p)3,920,380
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Level - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	399,847	380,925	353,473	333,597	352,779	371,858	378,232	370,308	353,028	360,610	331,289	309,444	357,949
2014	333,576	338,761	321,124	277,706	288,917	289,898	303,737	289,227	260,332	263,620	261,702	242,049	289,221
2015	273,287	265,625	240,350	226,613	231,265	227,977	234,477	222,531	200,298	207,436	208,169	202,410	228,370
2016	225,339	222,462	215,560	193,667	188,854	210,882	230,198	226,669	217,388	216,069	194,365	180,599	210,171
2017	214,778	212,073	190,530	179,097	184,923	192,404	213,315	211,169	194,682	187,189	174,423	171,704	193,857
2018	196,516	192,898	182,169	165,955	152,908	180,976	188,005	183,976	166,259	169,428	163,926	171,111	176,177
2019	203,050	190,016	174,514	153,916	162,357	164,935	179,595	175,870	153,743	165,429	152,293	140,697	168,035
2020	175,272	180,917	225,730	454,973	836,383	693,802	705,599	609,424	579,954	530,098	501,136	478,224	497,626
2021	515,104	502,682	465,194	450,070	413,560	441,104	429,681	409,961	351,689	335,179	310,295	302,754	410,606
2022	322,389	295,788	259,152	231,660	219,812	222,617	223,211	212,474	183,574	204,189	206,445	205,284	232,216
2023	228,061	232,810	215,824	218,071	212,501	246,536	231,644	(p)234,715
Footnotes (p) Preliminary

Unemployment Rate - Not Seasonally Adjusted
Year	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec	Avg
2013	9.9	9.4	8.8	8.3	8.7	9.1	9.2	9.0	8.7	8.8	8.1	7.6	8.8
2014	8.2	8.2	7.8	6.8	7.1	7.1	7.4	7.1	6.4	6.4	6.4	5.9	7.1
2015	6.7	6.4	5.8	5.5	5.6	5.6	5.7	5.4	5.0	5.1	5.1	5.0	5.6
2016	5.5	5.4	5.2	4.8	4.7	5.2	5.6	5.5	5.3	5.3	4.8	4.4	5.1
2017	5.0	4.9	4.4	4.2	4.3	4.5	4.9	4.9	4.5	4.4	4.1	4.0	4.5
2018	4.6	4.5	4.2	3.9	3.6	4.2	4.4	4.3	3.9	4.0	3.9	4.0	4.1
2019	4.8	4.4	4.1	3.6	3.8	3.9	4.2	4.1	3.6	3.9	3.6	3.3	3.9
2020	4.1	4.2	5.3	12.3	21.5	17.1	17.2	14.9	14.3	13.0	12.3	11.8	12.2
2021	12.7	12.3	11.3	11.0	10.2	10.8	10.4	9.9	8.6	8.2	7.6	7.4	10.0
2022	7.8	7.2	6.3	5.7	5.4	5.5	5.4	5.2	4.5	5.0	5.0	5.0	5.7
2023	5.5	5.6	5.2	5.3	5.1	5.9	5.5	(p)5.6
Footnotes (p) Preliminary
Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS).