Bedford, VA jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Bedford
Employers hiring most in Bedford
- Cintas3 open roles
Bedford layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Bedford in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Bedford. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Central Virginia Workforce Development Board
Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Campbell, Lynchburg
Bedford County economy
3.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.4% the month before
38,140
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
80,254
people in Bedford County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$77,644
median household income
Source: Census ACS
44%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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- Forest6 jobs
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Virginia’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.