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Tazewell County, IL jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Tazewell County’s unemployment rate is 3.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 17 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Tazewell County economy

  • 3.7%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.6% the month before

  • 63,398

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 130,555

    people in Tazewell County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $76,704

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 40%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Tazewell County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Tazewell 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 Tazewell 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. Carle Health2 open roles
  2. Caterpillar2 open roles
  3. Hopedale Medical Complex2 open roles
  4. Pursuit Aerospace2 open roles
  5. City of Pekin1 open role
  6. Five Below1 open role
  7. Illinois Oil Marketing Equipment1 open role
  8. Northrop Grumman1 open role
  9. NRG Energy1 open role
  10. Pekin Insurance1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Career Link

    Fulton, Marshall, Mason, McLean, Peoria, Stark, Tazewell, Woodford

  • Career Link - Tazewell County

    Pekin · Affiliate · 309-347-8492

    8:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. M - F - Closed 12:00- 1:00 p.m. for Lunch

Cities in Tazewell County

Other Illinois counties

All of Illinois

Laid off or looking for work in Tazewell County?

See what to do first and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

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.