Employment up more than 5.0 percent over the year in New Hanover County, NC, and Adams County, CO

From September 2018 to September 2019, employment increased in 283 of the 355 largest U.S. counties. New Hanover County, North Carolina (part of the Wilmington metropolitan area), had the largest over-the-year increase in employment with a gain of 5.8 percent. In Adams County, Colorado (part of the Denver area), employment increased 5.3 percent over the year ended in September 2019.

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Chart Data Percent change in employment from September 2018–September 2019 and average weekly wage in third quarter 2019, in the 355 largest U.S. counties County Average weekly wage Percent change in employment United States $1,093 1.1% Alabama Jefferson, AL 1,055 1.1 Madison, AL 1,194 3.0 Mobile, AL 922 0.5 Montgomery, AL 909 -0.8 Shelby, AL 1,009 -0.8 Tuscaloosa, AL 887 2.2 Alaska Anchorage, AK 1,150 -0.1 Arizona Maricopa, AZ 1,060 3.2 Pima, AZ 934 0.8 Arkansas Benton, AR 1,012 2.5 Pulaski, AR 961 -0.6 Washington, AR 882 1.0 California Alameda, CA 1,490 0.1 Butte, CA 866 -2.4 Contra Costa, CA 1,311 -0.2 Fresno, CA 856 1.5 Kern, CA 907 2.5 Los Angeles, CA 1,225 1.0 Marin, CA 1,328 0.9 Merced, CA 846 2.9 Monterey, CA 936 1.1 Napa, CA 1,077 1.5 Orange, CA 1,204 1.1 Placer, CA 1,101 2.1 Riverside, CA 881 2.4 Sacramento, CA 1,183 1.8 San Bernardino, CA 927 1.7 San Diego, CA 1,197 1.5 San Francisco, CA 2,273 3.5 San Joaquin, CA 937 1.2 San Luis Obispo, CA 946 1.0 San Mateo, CA 2,366 3.1 Santa Barbara, CA 1,041 2.6 Santa Clara, CA 2,447 1.8 Santa Cruz, CA 992 1.3 Solano, CA 1,142 0.7 Sonoma, CA 1,090 1.0 Stanislaus, CA 949 0.8 Tulare, CA 787 0.6 Ventura, CA 1,065 1.0 Yolo, CA 1,199 1.8 Colorado Adams, CO 1,092 5.3 Arapahoe, CO 1,284 1.6 Boulder, CO 1,547 2.9 Denver, CO 1,369 2.1 Douglas, CO 1,236 2.5 El Paso, CO 1,000 2.5 Jefferson, CO 1,149 1.9 Larimer, CO 1,014 2.3 Weld, CO 1,052 3.8 Connecticut Fairfield, CT 1,475 -0.6 Hartford, CT 1,254 0.0 New Haven, CT 1,092 0.2 New London, CT 1,048 -1.2 Delaware New Castle, DE 1,201 0.7 Sussex, DE 782 2.8 District of Columbia Washington, DC 1,851 0.6 Florida Alachua, FL 937 1.0 Bay, FL 815 -5.9 Brevard, FL 958 1.8 Broward, FL 1,000 0.5 Collier, FL 920 2.2 Duval, FL 1,008 1.7 Escambia, FL 856 1.4 Hillsborough, FL 1,046 2.8 Lake, FL 741 1.9 Lee, FL 854 2.1 Leon, FL 901 0.6 Manatee, FL 840 3.1 Marion, FL 735 1.9 Miami-Dade, FL 1,039 1.3 Okaloosa, FL 894 1.9 Orange, FL 958 1.9 Osceola, FL 720 3.2 Palm Beach, FL 1,009 1.3 Pasco, FL 775 1.1 Pinellas, FL 931 0.8 Polk, FL 822 2.7 St. Johns, FL 851 2.3 St. Lucie, FL 788 3.0 Sarasota, FL 898 1.3 Seminole, FL 929 1.4 Volusia, FL 763 -0.6 Georgia Bibb, GA 847 -0.4 Chatham, GA 909 0.4 Clayton, GA 1,100 2.3 Cobb, GA 1,131 1.6 DeKalb, GA 1,099 0.7 Forsyth, GA 968 2.1 Fulton, GA 1,422 1.1 Gwinnett, GA 1,007 2.0 Hall, GA 915 0.1 Muscogee, GA 850 -0.4 Richmond, GA 919 1.4 Hawaii Honolulu, HI 1,059 -0.5 Maui + Kalawao, HI 906 -0.1 Idaho Ada, ID 970 3.2 Illinois Champaign, IL 947 1.1 Cook, IL 1,244 0.1 DuPage, IL 1,221 -0.7 Kane, IL 948 0.5 Lake, IL 1,302 -0.7 McHenry, IL 846 -0.9 McLean, IL 986 -0.4 Madison, IL 840 1.1 Peoria, IL 1,066 -2.6 St. Clair, IL 859 -0.9 Sangamon, IL 1,177 -0.7 Will, IL 916 1.7 Winnebago, IL 928 -2.0 Indiana Allen, IN 879 1.1 Elkhart, IN 890 -3.8 Hamilton, IN 1,018 1.0 Lake, IN 925 0.1 Marion, IN 1,098 1.2 St. Joseph, IN 891 0.5 Tippecanoe, IN 924 1.2 Vanderburgh, IN 883 -1.0 Iowa Johnson, IA 1,014 0.3 Linn, IA 1,010 0.7 Polk, IA 1,078 0.9 Scott, IA 891 0.3 Kansas Johnson, KS 1,074 1.2 Sedgwick, KS 894 1.7 Shawnee, KS 872 -0.6 Wyandotte, KS 1,036 0.2 Kentucky Boone, KY 917 1.5 Fayette, KY 938 1.1 Jefferson, KY 1,037 0.5 Louisiana 856 -1.1 Caddo, LA Calcasieu, LA 980 -3.0 East Baton Rouge, LA 1,010 -1.6 Jefferson, LA 945 0.0 Lafayette, LA 922 0.5 Orleans, LA 993 1.9 St. Tammany, LA 899 1.6 Maine Cumberland, ME 1,007 0.7 Maryland Anne Arundel, MD 1,139 -0.1 Baltimore, MD 1,061 -0.3 Frederick, MD 1,007 1.0 Harford, MD 1,053 -1.3 Howard, MD 1,320 1.5 Montgomery, MD 1,404 0.3 Prince George's, MD 1,156 -0.5 Baltimore City, MD 1,239 -0.7 Massachusetts Barnstable, MA 914 -0.4 Bristol, MA 973 0.6 Essex, MA 1,154 0.1 Hampden, MA 947 0.2 Middlesex, MA 1,625 1.6 Norfolk, MA 1,216 -0.4 Plymouth, MA 1,036 0.2 Suffolk, MA 1,784 2.4 Worcester, MA 1,063 0.2 Michigan Genesee, MI 877 0.6 Ingham, MI 994 1.0 Kalamazoo, MI 993 -0.5 Kent, MI 960 0.3 Macomb, MI 1,049 0.3 Oakland, MI 1,165 0.0 Ottawa, MI 921 0.8 Saginaw, MI 861 -0.1 Washtenaw, MI 1,179 2.0 Wayne, MI 1,150 0.4 Minnesota Anoka, MN 1,094 0.7 Dakota, MN 1,057 0.0 Hennepin, MN 1,322 0.5 Olmsted, MN 1,279 0.1 Ramsey, MN 1,196 0.1 St. Louis, MN 915 -1.0 Stearns, MN 943 0.2 Washington, MN 908 0.9 Mississippi Harrison, MS 722 0.9 Hinds, MS 910 0.0 Missouri Boone, MO 896 0.5 Clay, MO 920 0.0 Greene, MO 838 1.5 Jackson, MO 1,070 0.4 St. Charles, MO 862 3.0 St. Louis, MO 1,131 0.3 St. Louis City, MO 1,172 0.3 Montana Yellowstone, MT 919 0.4 Nebraska Douglas, NE 1,027 0.9 Lancaster, NE 891 0.2 Nevada Clark, NV 950 2.3 Washoe, NV 1,007 1.4 New Hampshire Hillsborough, NH 1,146 0.5 Merrimack, NH 1,018 0.3 Rockingham, NH 1,048 1.1 New Jersey Atlantic, NJ 877 -1.2 Bergen, NJ 1,238 1.0 Burlington, NJ 1,096 0.3 Camden, NJ 1,038 -0.1 Essex, NJ 1,330 0.9 Gloucester, NJ 890 2.9 Hudson, NJ 1,384 1.0 Mercer, NJ 1,296 1.1 Middlesex, NJ 1,216 0.3 Monmouth, NJ 1,032 0.7 Morris, NJ 1,534 0.7 Ocean, NJ 850 2.0 Passaic, NJ 1,005 1.0 Somerset, NJ 1,518 -0.3 Union, NJ 1,272 0.7 New Mexico Bernalillo, NM 939 1.2 New York Albany, NY 1,122 -0.7 Bronx, NY 1,131 1.1 Broome, NY 887 -1.3 Dutchess, NY 1,041 0.0 Erie, NY 953 -0.7 Kings, NY 953 1.1 Monroe, NY 1,009 0.0 Nassau, NY 1,162 0.1 New York, NY 2,055 1.2 Oneida, NY 838 0.5 Onondaga, NY 997 0.3 Orange, NY 918 0.8 Queens, NY 1,076 1.3 Richmond, NY 1,028 4.7 Rockland, NY 998 3.5 Saratoga, NY 978 -0.4 Suffolk, NY 1,158 0.0 Westchester, NY 1,308 -0.6 North Carolina Buncombe, NC 846 1.0 Cabarrus, NC 806 2.0 Catawba, NC 830 -0.5 Cumberland, NC 848 1.5 Durham, NC 1,327 4.1 Forsyth, NC 967 1.8 Guilford, NC 925 0.3 Mecklenburg, NC 1,214 2.7 New Hanover, NC 873 5.8 Pitt, NC 906 1.5 Wake, NC 1,157 3.3 North Dakota Cass, ND 991 1.5 Ohio Butler, OH 945 0.6 Cuyahoga, OH 1,084 0.2 Delaware, OH 1,046 0.4 Franklin, OH 1,096 0.6 Greene, OH 1,081 1.6 Hamilton, OH 1,186 0.5 Lake, OH 913 1.7 Lorain, OH 823 1.1 Lucas, OH 933 0.2 Mahoning, OH 767 -0.1 Montgomery, OH 925 0.0 Stark, OH 810 -0.5 Summit, OH 927 -0.2 Warren, OH 1,144 2.4 Oklahoma Cleveland, OK 777 3.8 Oklahoma, OK 1,000 0.8 Tulsa, OK 969 1.3 Oregon Clackamas, OR 1,040 2.0 Deschutes, OR 907 2.5 Jackson, OR 849 0.2 Lane, OR 856 0.4 Marion, OR 908 1.5 Multnomah, OR 1,159 1.4 Washington, OR 1,371 1.7 Pennsylvania Allegheny, PA 1,147 0.3 Berks, PA 967 0.8 Bucks, PA 981 1.2 Butler, PA 995 0.7 Chester, PA 1,271 1.2 Cumberland, PA 981 1.0 Dauphin, PA 1,063 0.7 Delaware, PA 1,105 0.9 Erie, PA 816 -0.9 Lackawanna, PA 813 -0.8 Lancaster, PA 908 1.1 Lehigh, PA 1,045 0.9 Luzerne, PA 848 0.2 Montgomery, PA 1,287 1.3 Northampton, PA 905 1.8 Philadelphia, PA 1,290 1.6 Washington, PA 1,047 -0.2 Westmoreland, PA 889 0.3 York, PA 939 0.2 Rhode Island Kent, RI 939 0.1 Providence, RI 1,011 0.3 South Carolina Charleston, SC 965 3.0 Greenville, SC 910 1.7 Horry, SC 660 3.2 Lexington, SC 841 2.7 Richland, SC 923 1.3 Spartanburg, SC 889 2.7 York, SC 876 4.4 South Dakota Minnehaha, SD 946 0.9 Tennessee Davidson, TN 1,179 3.4 Hamilton, TN 963 1.3 Knox, TN 936 0.8 Rutherford, TN 939 1.4 Shelby, TN 1,061 0.8 Williamson, TN 1,251 3.7 Texas Bell, TX 916 1.3 Bexar, TX 965 1.2 Brazoria, TX 1,095 2.0 Brazos, TX 815 2.2 Cameron, TX 659 1.5 Collin, TX 1,278 3.0 Dallas, TX 1,303 2.7 Denton, TX 962 3.5 Ector, TX 1,227 -1.3 El Paso, TX 765 1.4 Fort Bend, TX 977 2.2 Galveston, TX 959 0.9 Harris, TX 1,315 1.9 Hidalgo, TX 683 2.3 Jefferson, TX 1,084 1.9 Lubbock, TX 861 1.1 McLennan, TX 892 1.4 Midland, TX 1,459 0.5 Montgomery, TX 1,061 2.6 Nueces, TX 937 1.1 Potter, TX 888 1.6 Smith, TX 893 0.4 Tarrant, TX 1,079 1.6 Travis, TX 1,312 3.1 Webb, TX 712 0.8 Williamson, TX 1,143 3.9 Utah Davis, UT 873 2.3 Salt Lake, UT 1,081 2.7 Utah, UT 914 3.3 Weber, UT 831 3.0 Vermont Chittenden, VT 1,065 0.2 Virginia Arlington, VA 1,744 2.5 Chesterfield, VA 926 1.1 Fairfax, VA 1,651 1.5 Henrico, VA 1,023 -0.5 Loudoun, VA 1,228 2.9 Prince William, VA 960 1.0 Alexandria City, VA 1,505 -1.6 Chesapeake City, VA 860 1.4 Newport News City, VA 1,019 1.2 Norfolk City, VA 1,063 0.1 Richmond City, VA 1,198 1.8 Virginia Beach City, VA 823 0.6 Washington Benton, WA 1,099 3.5 Clark, WA 1,060 1.7 King, WA 1,814 3.1 Kitsap, WA 1,014 2.1 Pierce, WA 1,039 1.7 Snohomish, WA 1,167 2.0 Spokane, WA 953 1.8 Thurston, WA 1,051 1.2 Whatcom, WA 932 0.6 Yakima, WA 790 1.4 West Virginia Kanawha, WV 950 -1.5 Wisconsin Brown, WI 947 -0.6 Dane, WI 1,062 1.8 Milwaukee, WI 1,008 -0.5 Outagamie, WI 917 -0.3 Racine, WI 910 -0.3 Waukesha, WI 1,054 0.4 Winnebago, WI 968 -0.1

Employment grew by more than 4.0 percent in Richmond County, New York (in the New York City area); York County, South Carolina (part of the Charlotte, North Carolina, area); and Durham County, North Carolina (part of the Durham-Chapel Hill area).

Bay, Florida (part of the Panama City area), experienced the largest over-the-year percentage decrease in employment, with a loss of 5.9 percent. Decreases of 3.0 percent or more were also recorded in Calcasieu, Louisiana, and Elkhart, Indiana.

Three counties in California's San Francisco and San Jose metropolitan areas—Santa Clara, San Mateo, and San Francisco—had average weekly wages of $2,273 or higher, the highest among the 355 largest counties during the third quarter of 2019. Average weekly wages were $2,055 in New York County (Manhattan), in the New York City area. Average weekly wages were less than $700 in Hidalgo, Texas; Horry, South Carolina; and Cameron, Texas.

Among the 10 largest counties, Maricopa, Arizona (part of the Phoenix area), had the largest over-the-year percentage gain in employment, 3.2 percent. All of the 10 largest counties had over-the-year percentage increases in employment and average weekly wages.

These data are from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages program and are preliminary. Large counties are defined as having employment of at least 75,000. To learn more, see "County Employment and Wages – Third Quarter 2019."