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Wood River, IL jobs, layoffs and employers

Wood River is in Madison County.

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Wood River layoffs

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

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Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Southwestern Illinois workNet - Wood River

    Wood River · Comprehensive · 618-296-4301

    Monday 08:00-16:30, Tuesday 08:00-16:30, Wednesday 08:00-16:30, Thursday 08:00-16:30, Friday 08:00-16:30,

Madison County economy

  • 3.5%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.4% the month before

  • 131,215

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 264,631

    people in Madison County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $74,800

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 40%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Sources: WARN notices from Illinois’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.