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Nantucket County, MA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Nantucket County’s unemployment rate is 2.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 7 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Nantucket County economy

  • 2.7%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    2.7% the month before

  • 12,060

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 14,299

    people in Nantucket County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $119,750

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 48%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Nantucket County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Nantucket 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 Nantucket 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. Boys & Girls Clubs of America1 open role
  2. Confidential1 open role
  3. Hiring & apply1 open role
  4. Nantucket Memorial Airport1 open role
  5. Rockland Trust Company1 open role
  6. Town of Nantucket1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Nantucket 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

Cities in Nantucket County

Other Massachusetts counties

All of Massachusetts

Laid off or looking for work in Nantucket 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.