Hopewell city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Hopewell city’s unemployment rate is 5.1%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 9 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Hopewell city economy

5.1%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.9% the month before
9,975
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
22,944
people in Hopewell city
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$48,681
median household income
Source: Census ACS
24%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Hopewell city layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Hopewell 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 Hopewell 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.

Ashland Global2 open roles
AdvanSix1 open role
Airgas1 open role
BeiGene1 open role
BeOne Medicines1 open role
Hopewell Bureau of Fire1 open role
Insight Global1 open role
Lomenick1 open role

Cities in Hopewell city

Hopewell9 jobs

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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.