Bristol, VA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Bristol

• Environmental Engineer SeniorCommonwealth of Virginia
• Business Account ExecutivePoint Broadband
• Inpatient Rehabilitation Co-Medical Director in Bristol, VATeamHealth
• News ProducerSinclair
• MeteorologistSinclair
• Investigative Reporter/AnchorSinclair
• Multimedia Journalist (MMJ)Sinclair
• Weekend News Anchor/ReporterSinclair

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Employers hiring most in Bristol

1. Sinclair5 open roles
2. Commonwealth of Virginia1 open role
3. Point Broadband1 open role
4. TeamHealth1 open role

Bristol layoffs

No layoff notices naming Bristol 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.

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Bristol city 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 13.9% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 5.2% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 4.3%, up 0.6 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+430 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−491 jobs)

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Bristol city economy

• 4.3%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.7% the month before

• 7,349

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 17,024

  people in Bristol city

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $44,706

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 38%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS