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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
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN Metro Area	139,343± 5,463 MOE	12.4%	1.0×	243,392
Knoxville, TN Metro Area	58,510± 4,434 MOE	12.4%	1.0×	101,003
Bellingham, WA Metro Area	15,174± 2,475 MOE	12.3%	1.0×	28,366
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area	260,906± 8,228 MOE	12.3%	1.0×	451,830
Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL Metro Area	40,034± 4,190 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	68,067
Sumter, SC Metro Area	5,089± 1,366 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	12,587
Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area	50,686± 3,693 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	81,940
Missoula, MT Metro Area	8,745± 1,793 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	17,742
Greeley, CO Metro Area	23,800± 2,669 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	37,416
Augusta-Richmond County, GA-SC Metro Area	34,558± 3,606 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	64,303
Rochester, NY Metro Area	64,367± 4,527 MOE	12.2%	0.9×	104,157
Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area	101,605± 4,860 MOE	12.1%	0.9×	197,557
Omaha, NE-IA Metro Area	62,856± 4,424 MOE	12.1%	0.9×	108,746
Kahului-Wailuku, HI Metro Area	9,875± 1,615 MOE	12.1%	0.9×	13,487
College Station-Bryan, TX Metro Area	16,265± 2,243 MOE	12.0%	0.9×	39,365
Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT Metro Area	72,937± 5,411 MOE	11.9%	0.9×	121,851
Tallahassee, FL Metro Area	23,097± 2,770 MOE	11.9%	0.9×	47,516
Brunswick-St. Simons, GA Metro Area	6,859± 1,733 MOE	11.9%	0.9×	13,201
Vallejo, CA Metro Area	24,220± 2,823 MOE	11.8%	0.9×	45,668
Montgomery, AL Metro Area	20,446± 3,143 MOE	11.7%	0.9×	36,280
Harrisburg-Carlisle, PA Metro Area	36,255± 3,573 MOE	11.6%	0.9×	58,702
Gainesville, FL Metro Area	19,886± 2,900 MOE	11.6%	0.9×	46,373
Grand Junction, CO Metro Area	9,056± 1,570 MOE	11.6%	0.9×	13,937
Carson City, NV Metro Area	2,979± 1,073 MOE	11.5%	0.9×	6,584
Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI Metro Area	92,831± 5,646 MOE	11.5%	0.9×	168,218
Pensacola-Ferry Pass-Brent, FL Metro Area	27,849± 3,082 MOE	11.5%	0.9×	59,115
Oklahoma City, OK Metro Area	83,393± 5,860 MOE	11.5%	0.9×	170,554
Bend, OR Metro Area	15,207± 1,947 MOE	11.5%	0.9×	22,998
Ogden, UT Metro Area	38,547± 3,383 MOE	11.4%	0.9×	78,343
Killeen-Temple, TX Metro Area	23,462± 4,170 MOE	11.4%	0.9×	62,242

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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