Ogle County, IL jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Ogle County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 40 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Ogle County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.6% the month before

  • 23,844

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 51,536

    people in Ogle County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $79,244

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 36%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Ogle County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Ogle 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 Ogle 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. Veterans Health Administration4 open roles
  2. Deaconess Health System3 open roles
  3. Deaconess Health System3 open roles
  4. Constellation Energy2 open roles
  5. DEL Monte2 open roles
  6. Eaton2 open roles
  7. General Dynamics OTS2 open roles
  8. Oregon Tool2 open roles
  9. Ameren1 open role
  10. Americold1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • NCI Works

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

Cities in Ogle County

Other Illinois counties

All of Illinois

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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.