Unemployment Across Every Minority Group Has Worsened in Past Year

White New Yorkers were the only demographic to make job gains, lowering their unemployment rate from 3.2% to 2.6% year-to-year from the first quarter of 2025.

In this data, race and ethnicity are interchangeable.
Chart: Nancy Jiang / The City ReporterSource: New York City Economic Snapshot include the NYS Department of Labor, the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Lightcast, Pitchbook, Kastle Systems, Costar, Cushman & Wakefield, Newmark, Savills, Colliers, JLL, StreetEasy, Broadway League, STR, and MTAOpen Data.