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Mitchell County, KS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Mitchell County’s unemployment rate is 4.1%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 6 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Mitchell County economy

  • 4.1%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.3% the month before

  • 2,563

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 5,767

    people in Mitchell County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $58,233

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 37%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Mitchell County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Mitchell 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 Mitchell 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. Pittsburg State University3 open roles
  2. GPAC2 open roles
  3. Owens Corning1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

Other Kansas counties

All of Kansas

Laid off or looking for work in Mitchell 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.