Editing Stephens City, Virginia (section)

==Economy==
The economy of Stephens City features several industries. According to the 2021 [[American Community Survey]], the industries in the town (by percentage of employed civilian population 16&nbsp;years and over) were educational services, health care and social assistance with 28.2%, retail trade with 13.5%, manufacturing with 11.4%, professional, scientific, management, administrative and waste management services at 11.3%, arts, entertainment, recreation, accommodation and food services with 9.1%, public administration with 8.1%, other services excluding public administration with 4.5%, construction with 4.4%, finance, insurance, real estate and rental and leasing with 3.1%, transportation, warehousing, and utilities with 2.2%, wholesale trade with 1.9%, agriculture, forestry, fishing, hunting, and mining with 1.4%, and information with 1%.<ref name="2021employment">{{cite web | url=https://data.census.gov/table?g=160XX00US5175344&tid=ACSDP5Y2021.DP03 | title=American Community Survey: Selected Economic Characteristics | publisher=U.S. Census Bureau | accessdate=May 28, 2023}}</ref>

As of 2021, the employment rate was 76.3%.<ref name="2021snapshot"/> Of the people in the [[labor force]] in the town over the age of&nbsp;16, the majority, 1,082 people or 80.9% of the population, were in the civilian work force, while 379 people, or 21.6%, of the population were not in the labor force at all. At the time of the 2021 American Community Survey, 34 people, or 1.9%, were unemployed, with 3 in the [[United States Armed Forces|Armed Forces]]. Of the 1,374 residents employed age 16 and over, private-sector wage and salary workers accounted for 1,048 of them or 78.4%. There were 255 people classified as [[Federal government of the United States|federal government]] workers, or 19.1% of the population, with the self-employed making up 2.5% of the population or 34&nbsp;people. None of the population were classified as unpaid workers.<ref name="2021employment"/>