Fairfax city, VA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Fairfax city’s unemployment rate is 3.2%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 368 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Fairfax city economy

3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.1% the month before
14,160
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
24,478
people in Fairfax city
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$132,774
median household income
Source: Census ACS
60%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Fairfax city outlook: Building

Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.

Private-sector jobs up 18.1% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 10.7% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.2%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,646 jobs), admin & staffing (+753 jobs)

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Fairfax city layoffs

No layoff notices naming Fairfax city 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.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Fairfax city

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

George Mason University55 open roles
Dewberry46 open roles
HII Mission Technologies15 open roles
Inova Health14 open roles
Govcio12 open roles
Riverside Research12 open roles
Fairfax County9 open roles
CGI8 open roles
Quantum Strides8 open roles
MAG Aerospace7 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Fairfax city

General Dynamics Mission Systems5,001–20,000 employees
George Mason University5,001–20,000 employees
ICF International LLC5,001–20,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Cities in Fairfax city

Fairfax368 jobs

Other Virginia counties

All of Virginia

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); layoff notices from Virginia’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers. Virginia unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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