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Colonial Heights city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Colonial Heights city’s unemployment rate is 3.8%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 9 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Colonial Heights city economy

  • 3.8%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.5% the month before

  • 9,254

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 18,210

    people in Colonial Heights city

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $76,250

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 36%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Colonial Heights city layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Colonial Heights 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 Colonial Heights 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. Carvana2 open roles
  2. AutoZone1 open role
  3. Benevis1 open role
  4. Chick-fil-A1 open role
  5. Covetrus1 open role
  6. Kokosing1 open role
  7. MileHigh Adjusters Houston1 open role
  8. Solstice Advanced Materials1 open role
  9. Star Stellar Credit Repair Solutions1 open role

Cities in Colonial Heights city

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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.