Bourbon County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Bourbon County’s unemployment rate is 6.3%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 4 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Bourbon County economy

6.3%
unemployment, Aug 2026
6.0% the month before
5,809
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
14,384
people in Bourbon County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,555
median household income
Source: Census ACS
31%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Bourbon County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Bourbon 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 Bourbon 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.

gpac1 open role
GPAC1 open role
Solenis1 open role
Ward Kraft1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

Kansas WorkforceONE
Allen, Anderson, Bourbon, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Coffey, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Labette, Linn, Lyon, Miami, Montgomery, Neosho, Wilson, Woodson

Cities in Bourbon County

Fort Scott4 jobs

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

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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.