Harvey County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Harvey County’s unemployment rate is 4.2%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 20 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Harvey County economy

4.2%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.0% the month before
17,619
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
33,823
people in Harvey County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$73,269
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Harvey County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Harvey 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 Harvey 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.

GPAC2 open roles
NMC Health2 open roles
Grace Church1 open role
Newton Healthcare Corporation d/b/a NMC Health1 open role
TekWissen ®1 open role

Colleges in Harvey County

Colleges in Harvey County
College	City	Type	Students
Bethel College-North Newton	North Newton	Private nonprofit 4-year	Under 1,000
Hesston College	Hesston	Private nonprofit 4-year	Under 1,000

Workforce development and job centers

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

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Harvey County?

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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.