Manufacturing Economy Monitor
Paper Products Manufacturing in Virginia
Paper Products manufacturing added $1.5B of value to Virginia's economy in 2024, up 5.4% year over year. That ranks Virginia 22th of 51 states and DC for this industry. It is 2.9% of Virginia's manufacturing output. Nationally, paper products is a $75.2B industry (the 14th-largest of the 19 manufacturing subsectors), per the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis.
Output and rank
- Value added: $1.5B in 2024, #22 of 51 states and DC for this industry.
- Growth: +5.4% year over year.
- Share of Virginia's manufacturing: 2.9% of the state's total manufacturing value added.
- National context: paper products is a $75.2B industry nationally, #14 of the 19 manufacturing subsectors (+1.1% year over year).
- Classification: nondurable goods manufacturing (BEA subsector 322).
Frequently asked questions
- How big is the paper products industry in Virginia? Paper Products added $1.5B of value in Virginia in 2024, ranking the state 22th of 51 for this industry, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
- Is paper products growing in Virginia? Virginia's paper products output grew 5.4% year over year to 2024. The chart above traces the full annual series since 1997.
- What share of Virginia's manufacturing is paper products? Paper Products is 2.9% of Virginia's total manufacturing value added in 2024, per BEA state GDP-by-industry data.
About this data
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis (public domain). National quarterly values are seasonally adjusted annual rates. Corporate-profit industry detail reflects inventory valuation adjustment without capital consumption adjustment, per NIPA table 6.16D conventions.
Last reviewed 2026-05-12.