Virginia Beach, VA · Contractors
Contractors in Virginia Beach, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 1,083 residential building contractors in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area in 2023, employing 4,371 people with $269.3 million in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
1,083
35th most of 387 US metro areas
4,371
4.0 per business, against 4.4 across all metros
$269.3 million
$61,611 per employee
91%
of businesses, against 91% across all metros
-3.9%
in the number of businesses (1,127 in 2022)
What the numbers say about Virginia Beach.
- Virginia Beach is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of residential building contractors, 35th of 387.
- A typical business here is about the national size, with 4.0 employees.
- Pay runs below the metro average: $61,611 per employee a year, against $73,514.
- The count fell by 44 businesses since 2022.
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Questions
Contractors in Virginia Beach
How many residential building contractors are there in Virginia Beach?
1,083 in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 4,371 people and paid $269.3 million in annual payroll.
Is the Virginia Beach market for contractors growing?
By number of businesses it shrank between 2022 and 2023: from 1,127 to 1,083 (-3.9%).
What does VERA do for contractors in Virginia Beach?
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is residential building contractors, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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