Only 15 percent of the 2.19 million civilian full-time federal employees in the United States work in the Washington metro area, which includes Northern Virginia, suburban Maryland and even a touch of West Virginia.
Government workers live throughout the country, according to data provided by the Office of Personnel Management last year. The data shows the number of federal workers in more than 900 metropolitan and micropolitan areas as of March 2023, not including contractors, the Postal Service or intelligence workers.
