Waynesboro city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Waynesboro city’s unemployment rate is 3.1%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 9 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Waynesboro city economy

  • 3.1%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.4% the month before

  • 12,044

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 22,574

    people in Waynesboro city

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $56,364

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 35%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Waynesboro city layoffs

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

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Employers hiring most in Waynesboro 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. Northrop Grumman6 open roles
  2. Magnera1 open role
  3. Northrop Grumman Systems1 open role

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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.