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Atchison County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Atchison County’s unemployment rate is 4.5%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 4 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Atchison County economy

  • 4.5%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.3% the month before

  • 8,297

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 16,211

    people in Atchison County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $62,164

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 36%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Atchison County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Atchison 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 Atchison 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. Benedictine College2 open roles
  2. GPAC1 open role
  3. Vyve Broadband1 open role

Colleges in Atchison County

Colleges in Atchison County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Benedictine CollegeAtchisonPrivate nonprofit 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Kansas Local Area I Workforce Development Board

    Atchison, Barber, Barton, Brown, Chase, Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Comanche, Decatur, Dickinson, Doniphan, Douglas, Edwards, Ellis, Ellsworth, Finney, Ford, Franklin, Geary, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Hamilton, Harvey, Haskell, Hodgeman, Jackson, Jefferson, Jewell, Kearny, Kiowa, Lane, Lincoln, Logan, Marion, Marshall, McPherson, Meade, Mitchell, Morris, Morton, Nemaha, Ness, Norton, Osage, Osborne, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pottawatomie, Pratt, Rawlins, Reno, Republic, Rice, Riley, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Saline, Scott, Seward, Shawnee, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, Thomas, Trego, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wichita

Cities in Atchison County

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Atchison 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 Kansas’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.