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Lynchburg

Title BLS Subject Product Type Date Published
Lynchburg, VA, Area Economic Summary (PDF)
Benefits, Consumer price indexes, Consumer spending, Employment, Industry price indexes, Pay, Unemployment
Economic Summary Dec 2024
Lynchburg, VA: Nonfarm employment and labor force data Employment, Unemployment Table Dec 2024
Mid-Atlantic - Labor Force Statistics Employment, Unemployment Table Dec 2024
Occupational Employment and Wages for Teachers in Virginia’s Metropolitan Areas – May 2016 Employment, Pay News Release Sep 2017
Lynchburg, VA Economy at a Glance:
Lynchburg, VA
Data Series Back
Data
May
2024
June
2024
July
2024
Aug
2024
Sept
2024
Oct
2024

Labor Force Data

Civilian Labor Force(1)

123.9 124.3 125.2 123.8 123.0 (p)123.1

Employment(1)

119.9 119.7 120.3 118.6 118.6 (p)119.0

Unemployment(1)

4.0 4.6 5.0 5.2 4.4 (p)4.2

Unemployment Rate(2)

3.2 3.7 4.0 4.2 3.6 (p)3.4

Nonfarm Wage and Salary Employment

Total Nonfarm(3)

106.0 106.1 106.5 105.5 105.5 (p)106.2

12-month % change

1.2 2.1 3.7 1.7 0.9 (p)0.8

Manufacturing(3)

14.3 14.4 14.4 14.4 14.2 (p)14.3

12-month % change

1.4 0.7 0.7 0.0 -0.7 (p)-0.7

Trade, Transportation, and Utilities(3)

18.9 18.9 18.6 18.4 18.4 (p)18.5

12-month % change

1.1 1.6 1.1 -0.5 -1.1 (p)-1.6

Government(3)

13.4 13.3 13.6 13.0 13.2 (p)13.2

12-month % change

3.9 3.1 10.6 4.0 2.3 (p)0.8

Footnotes
(1) Number of persons, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted.
(2) In percent, not seasonally adjusted.
(3) Number of jobs, in thousands, not seasonally adjusted. See About the data.
(p) Preliminary