Table Data - Unemployed Persons in Virginia

Title Unemployed Persons in Virginia
Series ID LAUST510000000000004A
Source U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Release Unemployment in States and Local Areas (all other areas) (Not a Press Release)
Seasonal Adjustment Not Seasonally Adjusted
Frequency Annual
Units Persons
Date Range 1976-01-01 to 2025-01-01
Last Updated 2026-04-16 1:06 PM CDT
Notes These data come from the Current Population Survey (CPS), also known as the household survey.

Civilian Labor Force includes all persons in the civilian noninstitutional population ages 16 and older classified as either employed or unemployed.

Employed persons are all persons who, during the reference week (the week including the 12th day of the month), (a) did any work as paid employees, worked in their own business or profession or on their own farm, or worked 15 hours or more as unpaid workers in an enterprise operated by a member of their family, or (b) were not working but who had jobs from which they were temporarily absent because of vacation, illness, bad weather, childcare problems, maternity or paternity leave, labor-management dispute, job training, or other family or personal reasons, whether or not they were paid for the time off or were seeking other jobs. Each employed person is counted only once, even if he or she holds more than one job.

Unemployed persons are all persons who had no employment during the reference week, were available for work, except for temporary illness, and had made specific efforts to find employment some time during the 4 week-period ending with the reference week. Persons who were waiting to be recalled to a job from which they had been laid off need not have been looking for work to be classified as unemployed.

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DATE VALUE
1976-01-01 137592
1977-01-01 131315
1978-01-01 128808
1979-01-01 120142
1980-01-01 134651
1981-01-01 153774
1982-01-01 196108
1983-01-01 171679
1984-01-01 142625
1985-01-01 153286
1986-01-01 143600
1987-01-01 126480
1988-01-01 122086
1989-01-01 123599
1990-01-01 143039
1991-01-01 192301
1992-01-01 203454
1993-01-01 172274
1994-01-01 162428
1995-01-01 151921
1996-01-01 145397
1997-01-01 124379
1998-01-01 98847
1999-01-01 94646
2000-01-01 82764
2001-01-01 117292
2002-01-01 156828
2003-01-01 155562
2004-01-01 142722
2005-01-01 136989
2006-01-01 122921
2007-01-01 126015
2008-01-01 169513
2009-01-01 284038
2010-01-01 283554
2011-01-01 263704
2012-01-01 244848
2013-01-01 234509
2014-01-01 215420
2015-01-01 184737
2016-01-01 170348
2017-01-01 156998
2018-01-01 129919
2019-01-01 121287
2020-01-01 280443
2021-01-01 166368
2022-01-01 119343
2023-01-01 122658
2024-01-01 132769
2025-01-01 153692

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