Baxter County, AR jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Baxter County’s unemployment rate is 3.8%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months.

Baxter County economy

3.8%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.6% the month before
17,499
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
42,150
people in Baxter County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$48,427
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Baxter County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Baxter County 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 Baxter County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Northwest Arkansas Workforce Development Board
Baxter, Benton, Boone, Carroll, Madison, Marion, Newton, Searcy, Washington

Other Arkansas counties

All of Arkansas

Laid off or looking for work in Baxter County?

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