Labor Force

Northern Virginia’s immigrant population is well-suited to maintaining and expanding the region’s labor force

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2013 to 2017 Period

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Key Facts:

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• In Northern Virginia, less than two-thirds, or 61.6 percent of the U.S.-born population are of working age — between 16 and 64 years old — the range considered to be working age by the Department of Labor.

• Meanwhile, more than four out of five, or 83.9 percent of the immigrant population in the region are of working age.

• While immigrants make up 27.4 percent of the overall population, they make up 34.0 percent of the region’s working-age population.

• Northern Virginia has a high percentage of immigrants, 31.8 percent, working in STEM industries compared to 22.8 percent of immigrants overall in the United States.

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