Workforce
With education and technical options around the region, Campbell County offers a pipeline of skilled workforce covering a variety of industry sectors. In addition to education opportunities, Campbell County collaborates with regional partners, such as Virginia Career Works, to assist in workforce training and solutions. Virginia Career Works provides a vital link between meaningful employment and growing businesses, advancing economic prosperity.
Higher Education and Technical Training
 | Campbell County Technical Center is Campbell County Public School's career and occupational training facility offering classes to high school students and adults in ten programs including Electricity, Manufacturing Technology, Auto Technology and Repair, Computer Networking and Repair, Culinary Arts, Cosmetology, and Nurses Aide Education. |
 | Centra College of Nursing offers four nursing programs: Registered Nurse to Bachelor of Science in Nursing (RN-BSN), Associate's Degree in Nursing (ADN), Practical Nursing Program (PN), and Nurse Aide Education Program. Graduates function as effective members of healthcare teams applying evidence-based practice through life-long learning. |
 | Central Virginia Community College's two-year college transfer programs in arts and sciences and in certain pre-professional areas lead to associate degrees and offer courses generally acceptable for transfer to four-year institutions. Its occupational and technical programs lead to diplomas, certificates, or associate of applied science degrees and are designed to prepare individuals for certain professions. Its other programs, including developmental work, special training for industry, and community service, offer instruction commensurate with the needs of individuals, groups or the general public. |
 | Liberty University offers more than 700 programs in its 15 schools and colleges from the certificate to the doctoral level ranging from medicine, biology, chemistry, and engineering to design, music, religion, law, and more. More than 15,000 attend classes locally on its Lynchburg campus. |
 | University of Lynchburg educates 1,822 undergraduate and 870 graduate students in 52 undergraduate majors, 67 minors, and 16 pre-professional programs. The university also has 3 doctoral programs and 14 master’s programs. Between 2011-2020, the University of Lynchburg averaged over 250 graduates with completed internships. |
 | Old Dominion Job Corps is part of the nation's largest free education and job training program for young adults. Job Corps graduates complete 8-24 months of career training programs aligned with industry-based skill standards, nationally recognized certifications, or union apprenticeship programs. Students receive hands-on career training for entry-level positions through work-based learning, internships, and job shadowing opportunities. Programs include automotive and machine repair, plumbing, carpentry, electcrical,healthcare, and homeland security. Students also learn employability skills such as the importance of teamwork, promptness, accountability, dependability, follow-through, and communication. |
 | Randolph College, a private liberal arts college with over 800 students on it's 100+ acre campus in Lynchburg, offers students a choice from 30 majors and 43 minors. The College also offers popular pre-professional programs in engineering, nursing, law, medicine, and veterinary studies. A new state-of-the-art mechatronics lab offers hands-on practice for students and helps to feed the significant advanced manufacturing sector in the region. |
 | Sweet Briar College is one of only two women’s colleges in the U.S. to offer an ABET-accredited engineering degree program and is one of less than 10 percent of U.S. colleges and universities with a Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society chapter on campus. In 2021, for the second time in three years, Sweet Briar College was named as one of the nation’s Most Innovative Schools by U.S. News & World Report, in recognition of its academic and institutional innovations. |
 | Virginia Tehttps://www.govti.org/chnical Institute provides hands-on training in a variety of fields including electrical, plumbing, heating and air, welding, pipe-fitting, carpentry, masonry, multi-craft industrial maintenance, and project management. Students ranging from high school to adults have the opportunity to earn a journeyman’s license using curricula from the National Center for Construction Education and Research (NCCER). The Institute is also certified through the State Council of Higher Education for Virginia (SCHEV). VTI hosts courses for Liberty University's Residential Technical Studies Associate Program, a two-year program that includes foundational education classes and Liberty-specific graduation requirements with practical, hands-on courses in the trades |
 | Virginia University of Lynchburg, founded in 1886, is one of Virginia's five historically Black Christian universities (HBCUs). The university offers undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral programs and is committed to academic excellence, leadership development, and community engagement. Forbes Advisor's 2024 rankings named VUL the top-ranked institution in the nation for its online Doctor of Healthcare Administration (DHA) program. |
Commuting Patterns for Campbell County
(Source: Chmura JobsEQ Economics & Analytics)
Inflow/Outflow Patterns
(Source: U.S. Census)
Average travel times for Campbell County are typically the same as mileage. For example, a 20 mile distance in Campbell County can typically be driven in 20 minutes.
Industry Snapshot
The largest industrial sector in Campbell County, Virginia is Manufacturing, employing 4,729 workers. The next-largest sectors in the region are Retail Trade (2,126 workers) and Construction (2,024). High location quotients (LQs) indicate sectors in which a region has high concentrations of employment compared to the national average. The sectors with the largest LQs in the region are Manufacturing (LQ = 2.97), Construction (1.78), and Other Services (except Public Administration) (1.35).
Data are for the four quarters ending 2024Q1. (Source: JobsEQ®)