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Ellis County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Ellis County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 11 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Ellis County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.4% the month before

  • 16,719

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 28,870

    people in Ellis County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $59,889

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 41%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Ellis County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Ellis 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 Ellis 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. GPAC4 open roles
  2. Agiliti Health2 open roles
  3. KVC Health Systems2 open roles
  4. Farm Credit1 open role
  5. HaysMed1 open role
  6. U.S. Army Reserve Command1 open role

Colleges in Ellis County

Colleges in Ellis County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Fort Hays State UniversityHaysPublic 4-year10,000–19,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Ellis 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

  • KANSASWORKS Hays

    Hays · Comprehensive · 785-625-5654

    8:00 a.m - 5:00 p.m.

Cities in Ellis County

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Ellis 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.