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Roles are placed in the county of the city their posting names; remote and statewide roles are left out.","Our job data covers professional roles on the career sites of employers we track, and the unemployed include people in every kind of work, so the figure compares places with one another; it is not a count of the jobs an unemployed person could take. Only counties with at least 100 openings and 500 unemployed people are ranked."],"builtAt":"2026-11-04T03:37:37.436Z","edition":"2026-11","measure":"perunemp","sources":["NextChapter job data: open professional roles by county","Bureau of Labor Statistics, Local Area Unemployment Statistics (not seasonally adjusted)"],"baseline":{"label":"all ranked counties","valueLabel":"7 per 100"},"keyFacts":["#1 Charlottesville city, VA: 67 per 100","#2 Arlington County, VA: 45 per 100","#3 Kings County, NY: 32 per 100","66 counties ranked in the Mid-Atlantic","Data as of November 2026"],"placeNoun":"counties","commentary":["The lead is wide: Charlottesville city (67 per 100) is well clear of Allegheny County at #10 (9 per 100).","Roanoke city reaches #9 on a sample of 181 openings, a smaller market than most of the top ten, so its rank can move more from month to month.","Kings County is the largest market in the top ten, with 22,158 openings behind its figure.","Counties with fewer than 100 openings are not ranked, and small differences between neighbouring ranks are not meaningful."],"license":"Free to use and share with a link to https://launchyournextchapter.com/rankings/counties-with-the-most-openings-per-unemployed-person-in-the-mid-atlantic"}