Construction employment on Long Island saw another year-over-year drop in September, the seventh straight month of declines, according to a new report from the Associated General Contractors of America.
Nassau and Suffolk counties lost 5,600 construction jobs from Sept. 2024 to Sept. 2025, a 7 percent year-over-year decline, falling from 83,400 to 77,800, the AGCA reports. Long Island’s construction employment decline was the fourth largest drop of the 360 metro areas in the report.
Regionally, the number of construction jobs in New York City was down 7 percent, losing 9,900 jobs from Sept. 2024 to Sept. 2025, falling from 145,000 to 135,100. New York City’s job loss was the largest in the country for that period.
Association officials noted that demand for industrial and data center construction remains robust, but demand in other sectors flags.
“The latest data on employment by metro area shows how spotty construction activity has become,” Ken Simonson, the association’s chief economist, said in a written statement. “Although a few project types, such as data centers, power, and certain infrastructure and manufacturing plants, are booming, many metro areas are experiencing a drop in activity.”
Metro areas adding the most construction jobs over the last year include the Arlington-Alexandria-Reston, Va. Area, which added 7,900 jobs for a 9 percent increase; followed by the Washington D.C area, which added 6,200 jobs for a 13 percent gain; and the Charlotte, N.C. area gaining 4,400 jobs for a 5 percent rise.
Besides New York City, the metro areas seeing the largest drops in construction employment from Sept. 2024 to Sept. 2025 include the Los Angeles-Long Beach-Glendale, Calif. area dropping 6,100 jobs for a 4 percent decline; the Las Vegas area, which lost 5,700 jobs for a 7 percent drop; and the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, Calif. area which lost 5,600 jobs for a 5 percent drop.
David Winzelberg
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