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Charlottesville city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Charlottesville city’s unemployment rate is 3.0%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 488 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Charlottesville city economy

  • 3.0%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.1% the month before

  • 24,620

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 45,863

    people in Charlottesville city

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $69,829

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 62%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Charlottesville city layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Charlottesville city in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Charlottesville city

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. UVA Health179 open roles
  2. University of Virginia139 open roles
  3. University of Virginia-Main Campus22 open roles
  4. University of Virginia18 open roles
  5. General Atomics9 open roles
  6. Defense Intelligence Agency4 open roles
  7. Caci International3 open roles
  8. CACI International3 open roles
  9. Cherokee Nation Businesses3 open roles
  10. DAn Solutions3 open roles

Cities in Charlottesville city

Other Virginia counties

All of Virginia

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Virginia’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.