Abingdon, VA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Administrative & Program CoordinatorVirginia Tech
- Staff AccountantFood City / KVAT Foods
- Program CoordinatorEO
- Business Development AssociateLogicfinder
- Finance Manager (Open to Relocation)Green Thumb Industries
- Production SupervisorGreen Thumb Industries
- VP Head of AIEvotec Group
- Data EngineerWize Solutions
- Dunkin Team LeaderEmpire Petroleum
- Onboarding SpecialistBrightSpring Health Services
Employers hiring most in Abingdon
- Green Thumb Industries2 open roles
- BrightSpring Health Services1 open role
- Empire Petroleum1 open role
- EO1 open role
- Evotec Group1 open role
- Food City / KVAT Foods1 open role
- Logicfinder1 open role
- Virginia Tech1 open role
- Wize Solutions1 open role
Abingdon layoffs
No layoff notices naming Abingdon in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Washington County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 9.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 0.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+611 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+313 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−364 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Abingdon Center
Abingdon · Affiliate
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Virginia Career Works--Bristol Center
Abingdon · Affiliate · 276-696-3737
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Washington County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.3% the month before
24,634
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
53,913
people in Washington County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$62,774
median household income
Source: Census ACS
37%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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