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San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA Metro Area

Employment among residents aged 16+. Metro boundaries and industry definitions can change between releases.

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Share of resident employment

The 2020 gap is intentional: standard ACS 1-year estimates were not published. Lines do not bridge missing years. Year-to-year changes are descriptive, not statistically tested growth.

Annual figures & age profile

Year	Employed in selection	Share	Population	Aged 22–24	Aged 25–29
2010	155,223	18.1%	1,843,255	72,050	135,287
2011	162,581	18.4%	1,865,450	70,290	139,354
2012	167,120	18.4%	1,894,388	71,837	139,582
2013	175,198	18.7%	1,919,641	78,200	140,121
2014	176,492	18.1%	1,952,872	77,925	143,585
2015	193,113	19.4%	1,976,836	80,217	146,719
2016	214,213	21.3%	1,978,816	76,751	154,525
2017	217,348	20.9%	1,998,463	77,749	159,742
2018	217,458	20.8%	1,999,107	76,961	161,751
2019	234,004	22.3%	1,990,660	77,073	162,733
2021	214,942	21.6%	1,952,185	70,934	146,306
2022	229,957	22.4%	1,938,524	75,178	144,376
2023	234,641	22.4%	1,945,767	80,924	146,273
2024	255,202	24.0%	1,995,484	82,067	152,546

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Industry footprint by metro

Share is the percentage of all employed residents working in your selected industries. Concentration compares that share with the US average for the same year: 2× means twice the share, not twice your chance of a job.

Metropolitan area	Employed in selection	Industry share	US concentration	Residents 22–29
Corvallis, OR Metro Area	6,887± 1,409 MOE	13.6%	1.1×	13,142
Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ Metro Area	6,396± 1,712 MOE	13.6%	1.1×	11,850
Richmond, VA Metro Area	94,402± 5,572 MOE	13.5%	1.0×	139,932
Portland-South Portland, ME Metro Area	41,585± 3,524 MOE	13.4%	1.0×	53,242
Kansas City, MO-KS Metro Area	158,718± 5,936 MOE	13.4%	1.0×	241,467
Boise City, ID Metro Area	56,277± 3,827 MOE	13.3%	1.0×	89,112
Sacramento-Roseville-Folsom, CA Metro Area	156,072± 7,892 MOE	13.3%	1.0×	243,247
Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA Metro Area	17,618± 2,408 MOE	13.3%	1.0×	25,075
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ Metro Area	341,956± 12,128 MOE	13.2%	1.0×	589,057
Jacksonville, FL Metro Area	114,002± 7,282 MOE	13.1%	1.0×	173,485
Greenville-Anderson-Greer, SC Metro Area	64,034± 5,211 MOE	13.1%	1.0×	101,112
Napa, CA Metro Area	8,739± 1,846 MOE	13.0%	1.0×	11,861
Stockton-Lodi, CA Metro Area	46,689± 4,343 MOE	12.9%	1.0×	86,593
Cheyenne, WY Metro Area	6,646± 2,053 MOE	12.9%	1.0×	9,863
Punta Gorda, FL Metro Area	10,293± 2,031 MOE	12.9%	1.0×	10,802
Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV Metro Area	150,197± 7,782 MOE	12.7%	1.0×	250,786
Worcester, MA Metro Area	58,636± 4,205 MOE	12.7%	1.0×	88,779
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX Metro Area	167,746± 9,128 MOE	12.7%	1.0×	315,701
Santa Rosa-Petaluma, CA Metro Area	31,011± 2,875 MOE	12.7%	1.0×	42,285
Asheville, NC Metro Area	25,296± 3,365 MOE	12.6%	1.0×	35,430
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area	256,239± 8,063 MOE	12.6%	1.0×	386,088
Columbus, OH Metro Area	145,283± 6,189 MOE	12.6%	1.0×	243,207
New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area	58,347± 4,835 MOE	12.6%	1.0×	89,375
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area	146,730± 6,849 MOE	12.6%	1.0×	240,796
Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA Metro Area	25,712± 2,377 MOE	12.5%	1.0×	51,852
Tucson, AZ Metro Area	61,816± 5,681 MOE	12.5%	1.0×	121,238
St. Louis, MO-IL Metro Area	180,048± 7,633 MOE	12.5%	1.0×	284,055
Lafayette, LA Metro Area	23,865± 2,918 MOE	12.5%	1.0×	40,719
Pittsburgh, PA Metro Area	152,944± 6,283 MOE	12.5%	1.0×	233,776
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal, SC Metro Area	12,847± 2,717 MOE	12.4%	1.0×	22,390

Definitions & source

US Census Bureau, American Community Survey 1-year estimates, DP03 and B01001. Counts cover civilian employed residents aged 16 and over, including people who commute elsewhere. They are not local workplace job counts or job vacancies. No career seniority breakdown is available in these tables.

Ages 22–24 and 25–29 are published bands; we do not estimate an exact 22–26 group. MOEs are 90% margins of error; combined counts use the Census square-root-of-summed-squares approximation. Small differences may be sampling noise. Historical boundaries and classifications are not harmonized.

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