Hampshire County, MA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Hampshire County’s unemployment rate is 3.9%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 39 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Hampshire County economy

3.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.3% the month before
85,807
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
156,595
people in Hampshire County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$86,391
median household income
Source: Census ACS
50%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Hampshire County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Hampshire 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 Hampshire 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.

L3HARRIS Technologies11 open roles
Smith College3 open roles
Harris Health Strategic Fund2 open roles
National Nonwovens2 open roles
SteerBridge2 open roles
AAS Healthcare Staffing1 open role
Career Development Partners1 open role
Clinical & Support Options1 open role
Confidential1 open role
Eversource Energy1 open role

Colleges in Hampshire County

Colleges in Hampshire County
College	City	Type	Students
University of Massachusetts-Amherst	Amherst	Public 4-year	20,000+
Amherst College	Amherst	Private nonprofit 4-year	1,000–4,999
Mount Holyoke College	South Hadley	Private nonprofit 4-year	1,000–4,999
Smith College	Northampton	Private nonprofit 4-year	1,000–4,999
Conway School of Landscape Design	Northampton	Private nonprofit 4-year	Under 1,000
Hampshire College	Amherst	Private nonprofit 4-year	Under 1,000

Workforce development and job centers

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

MassHire Franklin Hampshire Workforce Board
Towns: Amherst, Ashfield, Athol, Belchertown, Bernardston, Buckland, Charlemont, Chesterfield, Colrain, Conway, Cummington, Deerfield, Easthampton, Erving, Gill, Goshen, Granby, Greenfield, Hadley, Hatfield, Hawley, Heath, Huntington, Leverett, Leyden, Middlefield, Monroe, Montague, New Salem, Northampton, Northfield, Orange, Pelham, Petersham, Phillipston, Plainfield, Rowe, Royalston, Shelburne, Shutesbury, South Hadley, Southampton, Sunderland, Ware, Warwick, Wendell, Westhampton, Whately, Williamsburg, Worthington

Cities in Hampshire County

Other Massachusetts counties

All of Massachusetts

Laid off or looking for work in Hampshire County?

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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.