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Healthcare Social Workers hiring difficulty in Buffalo, NY

Buffalo, NY scores 3.3 out of 10 for Healthcare Social Workers, in the standard band. That is a quieter market on this measure than the hard band, which starts at 7.0. This occupation has no row in the 2025–2035 projections extract used here, so both demand components sit at the bottom of the scale used for occupations that do. This metro has a thicker supply of these workers than the national mix. The location quotient is 1.39 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). OEWS counts 1.677 of these jobs per 1,000 jobs in the metro. That count is shown here and is not a score input. New York has 200 designated Mental Health shortage-area IDs, 1.0 per 100,000 civilian residents (HRSA, September 30, 2026). That state figure is used because this occupation practices in mental health. Metro median pay is $64,940 a year, under both the New York median of $73,070 and the U.S. median of $67,880 (BLS OEWS, May 2025). In New York, the December 2025 job openings rate for all industries, statewide, was 4.1%, near the U.S. rate of 4.0% that same month. The statewide hiring pace was 39.9 days, longer than the U.S. pace of 37.8 days (BLS JOLTS, total nonfarm). OEWS counts 900 jobs in this occupation in the metro (May 2025). No workplace count is shown for Buffalo. The provider-registry extract was built from Oklahoma and Texas city queries and stops at those metros. This set of 80 metros places Buffalo at rank 46 for healthcare employment in practitioner and support occupations.