Alexandria Jobless Rate Rises to 3.4% as Unemployed Top 3,000 for 11th Straight Month
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Updated · ALXnow · May 26
Alexandria Jobless Rate Rises to 3.4% as Unemployed Top 3,000 for 11th Straight Month
1 articles · Updated · ALXnow · May 26
3,333 Alexandria residents were seeking work in March, up 14.8% from 2,902 a year earlier and keeping the city above 3,000 unemployed for an 11th consecutive month.
The city’s unemployment rate climbed to 3.4% from 2.9% a year earlier, as federal workforce cuts under the Trump administration weighed on the Washington-area economy.
Northern Virginia showed a similar pattern: unemployed residents rose 15.6% year over year to 62,518, while the regional jobless rate increased to 3.6% from 3.0%.
Across the broader D.C. metro area, unemployment reached 4.1% in March, up from 3.6%, with 142,151 people counted as jobless; the national rate was 4.3%.
Alexandria last had fewer than 3,000 unemployed residents in April 2025, and before May 2025 had not crossed that threshold since August 2021, after the Covid-era labor shock.
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