| LABOR FORCE
Goochland`s - A Productive Workforce
Time and again, new businesses in Goochland comment about how pleased they are with their hardworking labor force of Goochland. As a result of better-than-average training and education, combined with a vast diversity of skill sets, Goochland`s workforce is one of our greatest assets, and one of business`s greatest advantages.
Richmond - Pertersburg Area Labor Statistics:
| Civilian Labor Force | 653,420 | | Employment | 600,799 | | | Unemployment | 52,621 | | Unemployment Rate (Percent) | 8.1% | | Source: Virginia Employment Commission, May 2009 |
Young people graduating from high school, college, and other training and entering the labor force are the largest continuing source of labor for the long term. In the Richmond MSA there are more than 13,000 high school graduates each year and the area's institutions of higher education confer more than 9,000 post-secondary degrees each year.
| Area public high school graduates, 2007 - 2008 | 13,994 | | Going on to 4 - year college | 6,677 | | | Going on to 2 - year college | 3,763 | | Going on to other training | 1,094 | | Not continuing education | 2,460 | | Area post-secondary degrees conferred, 2007 - 2008 | 9,410 | | Associates | 1,391 | | Bachelor's | 5,410 | |
| Degrees beyond Bachelor's | 2,609 | | Commuters into MSA | 29,258 | | Commuters out of MSA | 28,612 | | Downsizing, FY 2007 - 2008 | 10,560 | | Net migration, 2000 - 2008 | 70,817 | | Underemployment, Q4 2008 | 35,124 | | Unemployment, May 2009 | 52,621 | | Unemployment Rate, May 2009 | 8.1% |
Labor Management Relations
Virginia is a Right-to-work State.
Greater Richmond and the Commonwealth of Virginia have low levels of unionization and union election activity.
*Information provided by The Greater Richmond Partnership
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