Southeast Queens Jobs Rose 14.3% Over the Decade Ending in 2024
A report by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that Southeast Queens neighborhoods, including Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill, and Howard Beach, experienced significant job and private-sector business growth over the decade ending in 2024, with jobs increasing by 14.3% and…
New York, NY, October 26, 2026 —
A report by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli found that employment and private-sector business activity grew in Southeast Queens over the decade ending in 2024. Jobs increased by 14.3%, while the number of businesses rose by 16.2% during the same period.
The report covered neighborhoods including Ozone Park, Woodhaven, Richmond Hill and Howard Beach. The reported business growth rate was 1.9 percentage points higher than the job growth rate. The figures describe change across the decade; they do not, on their own, indicate the number of jobs or businesses in the area at the beginning or end of that period.
The available information does not provide absolute job or business counts, separate growth rates for each neighborhood, or details about which industries contributed to the changes. It also does not identify factors behind the increases. Those details would be needed to assess how growth was distributed across the neighborhoods and sectors.
The figures offer a decade-long measure of change in the area’s employment and private-sector business totals. They do not specify whether growth was steady from year to year or concentrated in particular years. No further breakdown or explanation is included in the information provided.
Story summarized from the original created by By Shane O’Brien on qns.com, see more information here.
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