DECEMBER 9 — NUMBER OF EMPLOYED FALLS IN HUDSON REGION IN FALL | WHITE PLAINS CITIZENETREPORTER SETS RECORD VISITS FOR YEAR 7,017,658 VISITS! 2,098,003 VISITORS MADE 6 VISITS A DAY EVERY DAY. 63,330 UNIQUE VISITORS MADE 133,730 VISITS IN DECEMBER. WPCNR AVERAGED 17,284 VISITORS A WEEK, VISITING 31,270 TIMES.

Hudson Valley Region

For the 12-month period ending September 2025, the private sector job count in the Hudson Valley fell by 1,400, or 0.2 percent, to 827,800. Employment gains were largest in private education and health services (+5,200), financial activities (+1,000) and professional and business services (+1,000). Job losses were greatest in leisure and hospitality (-4,000), other services (-1,900), mining, logging and construction (-1,100), information (-1,000) and trade, transportation and utilities (-700).

In September 2025, the region’s private sector job market has begun to show signs of weakness as job growth was limited to just four sectors, while five sectors posted losses. Private education and health services remained the region’s leading jobs generator, climbing 2.3 percent to 233,000 – its highest September employment count on record. Meanwhile, job losses were most apparent in the leisure and hospitality sector – down 4.2 percent over the period.

Within the region, Rockland County posted the strongest gains, up 4.6 percent year-over-year. They were followed by Sullivan County (+4.0 percent), Putnam County (+1.3 percent), the Kiryas Joel-Poughkeepsie-Newburgh MSA (+0.6 percent), and the Kingston MSA (+0.2 percent). Westchester County was the only area that posted job losses – down 2.6 percent over the period.