In this Tuesday, April 16, 2019, photo Steve Burghardt, a professor of social work at the City University of New York, gestures as he speaks in his office at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work. Seniors in major metropolitan areas, especially in big Northeastern cities and around Washington, D.C., are more likely to continue working past 65 than those in other areas around the country, according to an analysis of Census cata by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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CHICAGO (AP) - Seniors in major metropolitan areas, especially in the Northeast and around Washington, D.C., are more likely to continue working past age 65 than those in other areas around the country. That's according to an analysis of Census data by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research.
Analysts say the types of jobs in those areas - government, finance, law and academia - are more conducive to keeping seniors working longer.
The analysis shows that among counties with at least 6,000 residents, about 12% have at least 21% of their seniors working or actively looking for jobs. Nearly 25% of the counties are in the Northeast, Maryland or Virginia, and 15% sit within 70 miles (113 kilometers) of New York, Boston, Philadelphia or Washington, D.C.
In this Tuesday, April 16, 2019, photo Steve Burghardt, a professor of social work at the City University of New York, teaches one of his classes at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work. Seniors in major metropolitan areas, especially in big Northeastern cities and around Washington, D.C., are more likely to continue working past 65 than those in other areas around the country, according to an analysis of Census cata by The Associated Press and the NORC Center for Public Affairs Research(AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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In this Tuesday, April 16, 2019, photo Steve Burghardt, a professor of social work at the City University of New York, teaches one of his classes at Hunter College's Silberman School of Social Work. (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)
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