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Colbert County, AL jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Colbert County’s unemployment rate is 3.9%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 19 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Colbert County economy

  • 3.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.4% the month before

  • 25,891

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 57,648

    people in Colbert County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $56,736

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 36%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Colbert County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Colbert County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Colbert County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. Constellium6 open roles
  2. Hadrian3 open roles
  3. Essity2 open roles
  4. Automatic Data Processing1 open role
  5. Bank Independent1 open role
  6. Deploy1 open role
  7. IDEX Consulting1 open role
  8. ITM Power1 open role
  9. LifePoint Health1 open role
  10. Lifepoint Health®1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Colbert County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

  • North, Region 1 Board

    Colbert, Cullman, De Kalb, Franklin, Jackson, Lauderdale, Lawrence, Limestone, Madison, Marion, Marshall, Morgan, Winston

  • Sheffield Career Center

    Sheffield · Affiliate · 256-383-5610

    8:00 – 4:30 Mon-Fri

Cities in Colbert County

Other Alabama counties

All of Alabama

Laid off or looking for work in Colbert County?

See what to do first and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Alabama’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.