Bureau County, IL jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Bureau County’s unemployment rate is 4.0%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 16 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Bureau County economy

4.0%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.1% the month before
15,012
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
33,027
people in Bureau County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$65,894
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Bureau County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Bureau 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 Bureau 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.

Allegion6 open roles
GPAC4 open roles
Dover2 open roles
Ace Hardware1 open role
Aston Carter1 open role
Beck Oil Company of Illinois1 open role
Jobot1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

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Bureau, Carroll, Jo Daviess, La Salle, Lee, Ogle, Putnam, Whiteside

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