BLS LAUS · August 2026 preliminary · not seasonally adjusted
Virginia Unemployment Rate by County
Virginia statewide was 3.6% in August 2026, against 3.6% in August 2025; the United States was 4.3% on the same basis. The 133 counties and equivalents below are listed alphabetically, each with its August 2026 rate and the change from August 2025. They are not ranked: county estimates carry model error BLS does not publish, so an order would compare noise.
133 areas · rate August 2026 · change from August 2025
- Accomack County4.2% · +0.1 pts
- Albemarle County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Alexandria city3.0% · −0.3 pts
- Alleghany County4.1% · +0.3 pts
- Amelia County3.2% · −0.3 pts
- Amherst County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Appomattox County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Arlington County2.8% · −0.3 pts
- Augusta County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Bath County2.5% · +0.1 pts
- Bedford County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Bland County3.1% · −1.8 pts
- Botetourt County3.0% · +0.1 pts
- Bristol city4.2% · +0.4 pts
- Brunswick County4.1% · −1.3 pts
- Buchanan County7.0% · +0.9 pts
- Buckingham County3.6% · +0.2 pts
- Buena Vista city3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Campbell County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Caroline County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Carroll County3.6% · −2.1 pts
- Charles City County3.8% · 0.0 pts
- Charlotte County3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Charlottesville city3.0% · −0.1 pts
- Chesapeake city3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Chesterfield County3.5% · +0.1 pts
- Clarke County3.4% · +0.3 pts
- Colonial Heights city3.8% · +0.3 pts
- Covington city4.5% · −0.2 pts
- Craig County3.6% · −0.1 pts
- Culpeper County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Cumberland County3.3% · +0.3 pts
- Danville city5.9% · −0.4 pts
- Dickenson County4.7% · −0.2 pts
- Dinwiddie County3.7% · +0.2 pts
- Emporia city7.6% · −1.7 pts
- Essex County4.0% · −0.2 pts
- Fairfax city3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Fairfax County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Falls Church city3.3% · −0.7 pts
- Fauquier County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Floyd County3.1% · −0.5 pts
- Fluvanna County3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Franklin city5.4% · +0.3 pts
- Franklin County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Frederick County3.4% · +0.2 pts
- Fredericksburg city3.9% · 0.0 pts
- Galax city3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Giles County3.6% · −2.7 pts
- Gloucester County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Goochland County3.3% · +0.3 pts
- Grayson County3.4% · −0.9 pts
- Greene County2.8% · 0.0 pts
- Greensville County5.9% · −1.8 pts
- Halifax County4.8% · −0.5 pts
- Hampton city4.4% · −0.1 pts
- Hanover County3.0% · 0.0 pts
- Harrisonburg city4.1% · 0.0 pts
- Henrico County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Henry County4.9% · −0.2 pts
- Highland County3.2% · +0.6 pts
- Hopewell city5.1% · +0.2 pts
- Isle of Wight County3.4% · −0.1 pts
- James City County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- King and Queen County3.3% · +0.3 pts
- King George County3.3% · +0.1 pts
- King William County3.0% · +0.1 pts
- Lancaster County4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Lee County4.8% · +0.1 pts
- Lexington city6.3% · +0.2 pts
- Loudoun County3.3% · 0.0 pts
- Louisa County3.5% · −0.2 pts
- Lunenburg County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Lynchburg city4.9% · +0.4 pts
- Madison County3.0% · 0.0 pts
- Manassas city3.1% · 0.0 pts
- Manassas Park city3.2% · −0.1 pts
- Martinsville city5.5% · −0.1 pts
- Mathews County3.4% · −0.2 pts
- Mecklenburg County4.0% · +0.2 pts
- Middlesex County3.4% · +0.3 pts
- Montgomery County4.1% · −0.3 pts
- Nelson County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- New Kent County2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Newport News city4.2% · −0.1 pts
- Norfolk city4.2% · 0.0 pts
- Northampton County4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Northumberland County4.8% · −0.2 pts
- Norton city4.5% · +0.5 pts
- Nottoway County3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Orange County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Page County3.5% · −0.1 pts
- Patrick County3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Petersburg city5.7% · +0.3 pts
- Pittsylvania County3.9% · −0.3 pts
- Poquoson city3.2% · +0.3 pts
- Portsmouth city4.6% · +0.1 pts
- Powhatan County2.9% · +0.3 pts
- Prince Edward County5.5% · +0.2 pts
- Prince George County3.2% · +0.1 pts
- Prince William County3.4% · 0.0 pts
- Pulaski County3.8% · −5.4 pts
- Radford city4.9% · −0.8 pts
- Rappahannock County2.9% · 0.0 pts
- Richmond city4.0% · +0.1 pts
- Richmond County4.1% · +0.3 pts
- Roanoke city3.9% · −0.1 pts
- Roanoke County3.2% · 0.0 pts
- Rockbridge County3.1% · −0.1 pts
- Rockingham County3.0% · 0.0 pts
- Russell County4.6% · 0.0 pts
- Salem city3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Scott County4.1% · +0.2 pts
- Shenandoah County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Smyth County4.3% · −0.2 pts
- Southampton County3.7% · −0.1 pts
- Spotsylvania County3.5% · 0.0 pts
- Stafford County3.6% · +0.1 pts
- Staunton city2.9% · −0.2 pts
- Suffolk city3.8% · −0.1 pts
- Surry County3.7% · +0.1 pts
- Sussex County3.6% · 0.0 pts
- Tazewell County5.0% · −0.3 pts
- Virginia Beach city3.4% · +0.1 pts
- Warren County3.3% · −0.1 pts
- Washington County3.4% · −0.2 pts
- Waynesboro city3.1% · −0.3 pts
- Westmoreland County4.6% · −0.2 pts
- Williamsburg city5.5% · 0.0 pts
- Winchester city3.8% · +0.3 pts
- Wise County4.9% · +0.3 pts
- Wythe County3.4% · −2.5 pts
- York County3.3% · 0.0 pts