Porter County, IN jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Porter County’s unemployment rate is 3.8%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 61 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Porter County economy

3.8%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.9% the month before
89,210
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
174,150
people in Porter County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$85,828
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Porter County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Porter 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 Porter 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.

Pkaza11 open roles
Valparaiso University7 open roles
Community Health Systems3 open roles
Brookdale Senior Living2 open roles
Encore Talent Solutions2 open roles
Patterson Companies2 open roles
Pkaza - Data Center Recruiting2 open roles
Resource Environmental Solutions ("RES")2 open roles
Applied Industrial Technologies1 open role
Aquestive Therapeutics1 open role

Colleges in Porter County

Colleges in Porter County
College	City	Type	Students
Valparaiso University	Valparaiso	Private nonprofit 4-year	1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

Northwest Indiana Workforce Board
Jasper, La Porte, Lake, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, Starke

WorkOne Portage
Portage · Affiliate · 219-762-6592
Monday-Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm

Cities in Porter County

Valparaiso30 jobs
Chesterton18 jobs
Portage11 jobs

Other Indiana counties

All of Indiana

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