Virginia · NAICS 53 · Annual, 2025

Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Virginia

Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 53 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.

In 2025, Real Estate and Rental and Leasing (NAICS 53) employed about 61,900 people in Virginia across roughly 12,515 establishments, with average annual pay of $82,780.

Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Virginia grew 15.0% from 2020 to 2025. Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 61,900. Quarterly values, full industry detail and projections to 2036 for Virginia are included with a free account. County-level detail is part of every paid plan, or one county free for seven days.

  • 61,900Employment, 2025
  • 12,515Establishments
  • $82,780Avg. annual pay
  • 1.5%Share of Virginia jobs
  • 0.95Location quotient

Employment, 2004 to 2025

Annual average · all ownerships

Employment in Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Virginia, 2004–2025Line chart of annual employment from 2004 to 2025, from 57,900 to 61,900.020K40K60K80K20042010201520202025

Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 57,900; 2005 59,500; 2006 58,900; 2007 59,000; 2008 57,400; 2009 54,300; 2010 52,000; 2011 51,100; 2012 51,900; 2013 52,200; 2014 52,000; 2015 53,100; 2016 53,100; 2017 54,200; 2018 55,300; 2019 56,700; 2020 53,800; 2021 55,000; 2022 57,900; 2023 59,800; 2024 60,400; 2025 61,900.

Last ten years

Annual · 10 years

YearEmploymentEstab.Avg. annual payChangeSource
202561,85512,515$82,776 2.4%pub.
202460,41412,628$78,197 1.1%pub.
202359,75912,619$74,465 3.2%pub.
202257,89712,394$72,078 5.2%pub.
202155,04911,409$67,714 2.3%est. · 1.00
202053,80010,687$63,226 5.1%est. · 1.00
201956,69210,295$59,018 2.6%est. · 1.00
201855,26310,026$56,595 1.9%est. · 1.00
201754,2359,754$54,963 2.2%est. · 1.00
201653,0569,496$52,947 0.2%est. · 1.00

† Not disclosed in QCEW; DTG estimate.

The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.

By subsector, 2025

3-digit NAICS · 3 shown

CodeSubsectorEmploymentShare of real estate and rental and leasingLQSource
531Real Estate49,80880.5%1.01pub.
532Rental and Leasing Services11,65818.9%0.77pub.
533Lessors of Nonfinancial Intangible Assets (except Copyrighted Works)3890.6%0.67pub.

Where these numbers come from

Reading these figures

The figures on this page come from one named vintage, stated below, and are annual values for all ownerships combined. Where QCEW withheld a value, the marked figure is an estimate that DTG produced under the constraints of the published record; suppression is a property of QCEW, not of DTG, and a withheld value is marked rather than silently omitted. Two things DTG itself holds back, and says so where it does: an estimate that cannot be given a reliability score is not shown, and average pay is not shown where fewer than three jobs are reported. The row is marked withheld, with the reason in a note beneath the table. The mark is on every row that carries a value: the headline, the yearly history, the subsectors and the other states. An estimated value that rounds below one is shown as less than one, not as zero. Quarterly figures, county figures and projected years are in the app.

How this figure was built

Employment is the average of the three monthly counts in each quarter, averaged across the year, and establishments are averaged across the year the same way. Average annual pay is the year’s total wages divided by that average employment. Each of these is DTG’s value: QCEW’s published figure where QCEW disclosed it, and DTG’s estimate, marked, where it did not. How withheld values are estimated, and what the reliability score beside a figure means, are described on the industry data and disclosure and provenance pages.

Estimated by Data Tactical Group from BLS QCEW, with CES/SAE and projection inputs described in the methodology. Method: Disclosure, Industry.

Notes

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Real Estate and Rental and Leasing in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth

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