Letcher County, KY jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Letcher County’s unemployment rate is 4.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 1 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Letcher County economy

4.7%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.6% the month before
7,306
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
21,146
people in Letcher County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$40,501
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Letcher County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Letcher 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 Letcher 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.

Childers Oil1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

Eastern Kentucky Workforce Development Board
Bell, Breathitt, Carter, Clay, Elliott, Floyd, Harlan, Jackson, Johnson, Knott, Knox, Lawrence, Lee, Leslie, Letcher, Magoffin, Martin, Menifee, Morgan, Owsley, Perry, Pike, Wolfe

Kentucky Career Center JobSight, Whitesburg
Whitesburg · Affiliate · 606-633-3154
8:00am - 4:30pm, Monday - Friday

Cities in Letcher County

Whitesburg1 jobs

Other Kentucky counties

All of Kentucky

Laid off or looking for work in Letcher 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.