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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
San Luis Obispo-Paso Robles, CA Metro Area	14,879± 2,247 MOE	11.4%	0.9×	26,934
Gainesville, GA Metro Area	12,383± 1,892 MOE	11.4%	0.9×	24,423
Ithaca, NY Metro Area	6,079± 1,348 MOE	11.4%	0.9×	15,630
Manhattan, KS Metro Area	6,962± 1,615 MOE	11.3%	0.9×	24,292
Winchester, VA-WV Metro Area	8,044± 1,499 MOE	11.3%	0.9×	13,890
Olympia-Lacey-Tumwater, WA Metro Area	15,658± 2,456 MOE	11.3%	0.9×	29,411
New Haven, CT Metro Area	32,988± 3,243 MOE	11.3%	0.9×	65,057
Daphne-Fairhope-Foley, AL Metro Area	13,548± 2,793 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	20,068
Traverse City, MI Metro Area	8,682± 1,259 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	12,977
Prescott Valley-Prescott, AZ Metro Area	11,289± 1,803 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	17,132
Providence-Warwick, RI-MA Metro Area	98,910± 6,129 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	177,344
Dayton-Kettering-Beavercreek, OH Metro Area	44,757± 4,274 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	87,169
Lakeland-Winter Haven, FL Metro Area	43,904± 4,149 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	85,249
Columbia, SC Metro Area	46,148± 4,191 MOE	11.2%	0.9×	92,877
Cape Girardeau, MO-IL Metro Area	5,689± 1,250 MOE	11.1%	0.9×	9,782
Burlington-South Burlington, VT Metro Area	14,511± 1,958 MOE	11.1%	0.9×	22,963
Akron, OH Metro Area	39,814± 3,754 MOE	11.1%	0.9×	73,984
Pinehurst-Southern Pines, NC Metro Area	4,976± 1,379 MOE	11.0%	0.9×	7,816
Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh, NY Metro Area	37,238± 3,187 MOE	11.0%	0.9×	72,550
Lawrence, KS Metro Area	7,629± 1,854 MOE	11.0%	0.9×	15,318
York-Hanover, PA Metro Area	26,293± 2,452 MOE	11.0%	0.9×	43,622
El Paso, TX Metro Area	42,736± 4,242 MOE	11.0%	0.9×	105,605
Birmingham, AL Metro Area	62,255± 6,175 MOE	11.0%	0.9×	121,899
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area	237,583± 10,072 MOE	10.9%	0.8×	513,034
Cleveland, OH Metro Area	119,273± 5,934 MOE	10.9%	0.8×	215,607
Peoria, IL Metro Area	19,161± 2,483 MOE	10.8%	0.8×	34,606
Lexington-Fayette, KY Metro Area	29,958± 2,603 MOE	10.8%	0.8×	64,793
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ Metro Area	49,010± 3,657 MOE	10.8%	0.8×	89,125
Corpus Christi, TX Metro Area	22,753± 3,117 MOE	10.8%	0.8×	47,941
Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area	61,932± 4,019 MOE	10.8%	0.8×	117,994

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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