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Cherokee County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Cherokee County’s unemployment rate is 4.6%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 6 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Cherokee County economy

  • 4.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.6% the month before

  • 9,371

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 19,236

    people in Cherokee County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $58,274

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 27%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Cherokee County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Cherokee 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 Cherokee 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. Liberty2 open roles
  2. Crossland Construction1 open role
  3. Crossland Services1 open role
  4. Shape Technologies Group1 open role
  5. ZRS Management1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

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.