Calloway County, KY jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Calloway County’s unemployment rate is 4.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 2 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Calloway County economy

4.7%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.1% the month before
16,935
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
37,882
people in Calloway County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$51,854
median household income
Source: Census ACS
35%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Calloway County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Calloway 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 Calloway 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.

Exceptional Roofing1 open role
GPAC1 open role

Colleges in Calloway County

Colleges in Calloway County
College	City	Type	Students
Murray State University	Murray	Public 4-year	10,000–19,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Calloway County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

West Kentucky Workforce Development Board
Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg

Cities in Calloway County

Murray2 jobs

Other Kentucky counties

All of Kentucky

Laid off or looking for work in Calloway County?

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Kentucky’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.