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Petersburg city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Petersburg city’s unemployment rate is 5.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 39 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Petersburg city economy

  • 5.7%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    5.4% the month before

  • 15,094

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 33,365

    people in Petersburg city

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $50,741

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 28%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Petersburg city layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Petersburg 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 Petersburg 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. Gerdau8 open roles
  2. Mohenis Services7 open roles
  3. Novo Nordisk3 open roles
  4. Amazon2 open roles
  5. Commonwealth of Virginia2 open roles
  6. Harbour Textile Service2 open roles
  7. Abacus1 open role
  8. Abacus Staffing1 open role
  9. Aldi US1 open role
  10. Bleachtech1 open role

Cities in Petersburg 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.