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Lowndes County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Lowndes County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 30 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Lowndes County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.3% the month before

  • 24,867

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 58,187

    people in Lowndes County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $54,460

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 32%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Lowndes County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Lowndes 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 Lowndes 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. Paccar15 open roles
  2. ABB3 open roles
  3. Steel Dynamics3 open roles
  4. TEKsystems3 open roles
  5. Air Education and Training Command1 open role
  6. CRH Public1 open role
  7. Dutch Lubricants1 open role
  8. EquipmentShare1 open role
  9. EquipmentShare.com1 open role
  10. ISHR1 open role

Colleges in Lowndes County

Colleges in Lowndes County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Mississippi University for WomenColumbusPublic 4-year1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Mississippi Partnership Workforce Investment Area

    Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha

Cities in Lowndes County

Other Mississippi counties

All of Mississippi

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