Mechanicsville, VA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Category ManagerVCU Health Tappahannock Hospital
- Commercial Sales ManagerAutozone
- Registered Nurse (RN) - Program Manager Neuroscience - Memorial Regional Medical CenterBon Secours Mercy Health
- SUE Field Operations ManagerSAM
- Survey Project ManagerSAM
- Asst General ManagerCava Grill
- Team LeadCava Grill
- Marketing Business Development RepresentativeSchaeffer Mfg.
- Team LeadLearning Care Group
- VDOT Programmer Analyst 4PeopleNTech
Employers hiring most in Mechanicsville
- Cava Grill2 open roles
- SAM2 open roles
- Accylerate1 open role
- Austin Community College1 open role
- Austincc1 open role
- Autozone1 open role
- Bon Secours Mercy Health1 open role
- Learning Care Group1 open role
- PeopleNTech1 open role
- Schaeffer Mfg.1 open role
Mechanicsville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Mechanicsville 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.
Hanover 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 1.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 5.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.1%, up 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+838 jobs), retail (+554 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: management of companies (−515 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Virginia? How to file for unemployment in Virginia (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Capital Region Workforce Development Board
Charles City, Chesterfield, Colonial Heights, Goochland, Hanover, Henrico, New Kent, Powhatan; City: City of Richmond
Hanover County economy
3.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.8% the month before
60,757
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
111,652
people in Hanover County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$109,504
median household income
Source: Census ACS
49%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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