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Barnstable County, MA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Barnstable County’s unemployment rate is 3.8%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 53 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Barnstable County economy

  • 3.8%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    3.7% the month before

  • 131,173

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 230,073

    people in Barnstable County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $94,452

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 44%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Barnstable County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Barnstable 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 Barnstable 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. HII Mission Technologies12 open roles
  2. Michael Page6 open roles
  3. HII Mission Technologies Division4 open roles
  4. Massachusetts Maritime Academy3 open roles
  5. HII Mission Technologies division2 open roles
  6. Huntington Ingalls Industries2 open roles
  7. Lawrence-Lynch2 open roles
  8. Mission Technologies, a division of HII2 open roles
  9. Pyramid Global Hospitality2 open roles
  10. SiteOne Landscape Supply2 open roles

Colleges in Barnstable County

Colleges in Barnstable County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Massachusetts Maritime AcademyBuzzards BayPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Cape & Islands Workforce Board

    Towns: Aquinnah, Barnstable Town, Bourne, Brewster, Chatham, Chilmark, Dennis, Eastham, Edgartown, Falmouth, Harwich, Mashpee, Nantucket, Oak Bluffs, Orleans, Provincetown, Sandwich, Tisbury, Truro, Wellfleet, West Tisbury, Yarmouth

  • MassHire Cape and Islands Career Center Hyannis

    Hyannis · Comprehensive · 508-771-5627

    Monday-Friday, 8:00am to 4:00pm

Cities in Barnstable County

Other Massachusetts counties

All of Massachusetts

Laid off or looking for work in Barnstable 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 Massachusetts’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.