How many sign shops are in the Virginia Beach area?

Name: Sign shops in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area, 2024
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30 sign shops

in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area in 2024. The BLS withheld employment and pay for this area to protect individual employers. Sign shops make up the same share of local private employers than they do nationally.

Shops vs 2023+15.4%4 more shops than 2023

Concentration1.00×the national share of employers

Employees—withheld by BLS

Average pay—withheld by BLS

The Virginia Beach area among U.S. metro areas

#	Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
45	Providence areaRI-MA	32	—	—	0.82×
46	Greenville areaSC	30	—	—	1.65×
46	Knoxville areaTN	30	—	—	1.77×
46	Virginia Beach areaVA-NC	30	—	—	1.00×
49	Boise areaID	29	—	—	1.24×
49	Hartford areaCT	29	288	$75,298	1.06×
51	Columbia areaSC	28	—	—	1.84×

All 383 metro areas are ranked on the metro list. The Virginia Beach area crosses state lines (Virginia, North Carolina) and is counted whole. For Virginia as a whole, with 2025 figures and the trend since 2014, see the Virginia page.

Other metro areas in Virginia

Metro area	Sign shops	Employees	Avg pay	Concentration
Washington area	74	—	—	0.54×
Richmond area	24	—	—	0.86×
Roanoke area	7	—	—	1.10×
Kingsport area	6	—	—	1.24×
Charlottesville area	5	—	—	0.93×
Blacksburg area	4	—	—	1.32×
Lynchburg area	4	—	—	0.79×
Harrisonburg area	2	—	—	0.83×

Sign permits in Virginia Beach

Before a sign goes up in Virginia Beach, the city's code decides whether it needs a permit and how large it can be. Virginia Beach's sign rules, summarised by PrinterFlo, list what triggers a permit and the limits a design has to meet.

Questions

How many sign shops are in the Virginia Beach area?

The Bureau of Labor Statistics counted 30 sign manufacturing establishments in the Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metro area in 2024 (annual average, private employers), rank 46 of 383 U.S. metro areas.

What do sign shops pay in the Virginia Beach area?

The BLS withheld employment and pay for sign shops in the Virginia Beach area in 2024, to protect individual employers. Statewide, Virginia's sign shops paid an average of $62,893 that year.

Does the Virginia Beach area have more sign shops than average?

Relative to its size, yes: sign shops make up the same share of the Virginia Beach area's private employers than they do across the U.S. (a location quotient of 1.00, where 1.00 is the national share).

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), annual averages, private ownership, NAICS 339950 Sign Manufacturing, Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC metropolitan statistical area, 2024 and 2023 annual averages, read September 24, 2026. 2024 is the latest year the BLS has published for metro areas. Concentration is the BLS location quotient for establishments. Ranks computed from the 383 metro areas with a published count; tied areas share a rank.