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Hope, AR jobs, layoffs and employers

Hope is in Hempstead County.

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Hope layoffs

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

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Arkansas Workforce Center at Hope

    Hope · Comprehensive · 870-777-3421

    8:00am to 4:30pm, Monday - Friday

Hempstead County economy

  • 4.5%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.8% the month before

  • 8,629

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 19,778

    people in Hempstead County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $47,654

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 28%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

All of Arkansas

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Sources: WARN notices from Arkansas’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.