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Virginia Beach city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Virginia Beach city’s unemployment rate is 3.4%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 302 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Virginia Beach city economy

  • 3.4%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.3% the month before

  • 229,750

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 457,066

    people in Virginia Beach city

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $90,685

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 46%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Virginia Beach city layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Virginia Beach 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 Virginia Beach 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. HII Mission Technologies26 open roles
  2. Johnson, Mirmiran & Thompson8 open roles
  3. Amazon7 open roles
  4. Busch Vacuum Solutions6 open roles
  5. HHV5 open roles
  6. Sentara Health5 open roles
  7. Sentara Healthcare5 open roles
  8. Medical Careers Institute4 open roles
  9. Skanska USA4 open roles
  10. Black & Veatch3 open roles

Colleges in Virginia Beach city

Colleges in Virginia Beach city
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Regent UniversityVirginia BeachPrivate nonprofit 4-year10,000–19,999
Virginia Wesleyan UniversityVirginia BeachPrivate nonprofit 4-year1,000–4,999
Virginia Beach Theological SeminaryVirginia BeachPrivate nonprofit 4-yearUnder 1,000

Cities in Virginia Beach 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.