Virginia · NAICS 922 · Annual, 2025
Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Virginia
Employment, establishments and average pay for NAICS 922 in Virginia, 2004–2025, from DTG's QCEW-based estimates.
In 2025, Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities (NAICS 922) employed about 87,300 people in Virginia across roughly 1,962 establishments, with average annual pay of $94,340.
Employment in Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Virginia grew 5.0% from 2020 to 2025. The industry is 1.7× as concentrated in Virginia as in the nation as a whole (location quotient 1.68). Employment reached its 2004–2025 peak in 2025, at about 87,300. 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.
- 87,300Employment, 2025
- 1,962Establishments
- $94,340Avg. annual pay
- 2.1%Share of Virginia jobs
- 1.68Location quotient
Employment, 2004 to 2025
Annual average · all ownerships
Annual employment, 2004–2025: 2004 67,200; 2005 68,900; 2006 71,700; 2007 74,300; 2008 76,200; 2009 76,500; 2010 77,200; 2011 78,400; 2012 79,400; 2013 79,500; 2014 79,900; 2015 79,800; 2016 80,600; 2017 81,500; 2018 82,500; 2019 83,500; 2020 83,200; 2021 83,000; 2022 82,500; 2023 84,500; 2024 86,300; 2025 87,300.
Last ten years
Annual · 10 years
| Year | Employment | Estab. | Avg. annual pay | Change | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 87,329 | 1,962 | $94,336 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2024 | 86,252 | 1,944 | $90,919 | 2.0% | pub. |
| 2023 | 84,527 | 1,866 | $86,154 | 2.4% | pub. |
| 2022 | 82,521 | 1,764 | $80,940 | 0.6% | pub. |
| 2021 | 82,985 | 1,664 | $76,603 | 0.2% | pub. |
| 2020 | 83,152 | 1,653 | $73,342 | 0.4% | pub. |
| 2019 | 83,481 | 1,662 | $69,315 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2018 | 82,537 | 1,660 | $67,903 | 1.3% | pub. |
| 2017 | 81,490 | 1,628 | $65,807 | 1.1% | pub. |
| 2016 | 80,606 | 1,546 | $63,977 | 1.0% | pub. |
The full history from 2004 and quarterly values are available with a free account.
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.
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Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities in Virginia, quarterly, at full depth
This page shows annual figures for justice, public order, and safety activities in Virginia. A free account shows every detailed industry beneath it, quarterly, for every state, with projections to ten years. No card.
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