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Brown County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Brown County’s unemployment rate is 4.9%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 16 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Brown County economy

  • 4.9%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.5% the month before

  • 3,922

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 9,415

    people in Brown County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $58,886

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 34%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Brown County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Brown 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 Brown 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. AUQ2 open roles
  2. ScriptPro2 open roles
  3. AdventHealth Corporate1 open role
  4. Audacy1 open role
  5. Johnson County Government1 open role
  6. Johnson County Mental Health Center1 open role
  7. Noble Cortex1 open role
  8. Scriptpro-1 open role
  9. Southwind1 open role
  10. The Techknow1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Brown 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 Brown County

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Brown 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.