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Oktibbeha County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Oktibbeha County’s unemployment rate is 3.4%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 18 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Oktibbeha County economy

  • 3.4%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    4.6% the month before

  • 21,941

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 51,473

    people in Oktibbeha County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $43,482

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 40%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Oktibbeha County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha 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. MartinFed2 open roles
  2. Altius Search Group1 open role
  3. Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service1 open role
  4. Camgian1 open role
  5. Coherent1 open role
  6. GrowthWise Search Partners1 open role
  7. Human Capital Ventures1 open role
  8. MartinFederal Consulting1 open role
  9. Mississippi State University1 open role
  10. Southwire Company1 open role

Colleges in Oktibbeha County

Colleges in Oktibbeha County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Mississippi State UniversityMississippi StatePublic 4-year20,000+

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha County

Other Mississippi counties

All of Mississippi

Laid off or looking for work in Oktibbeha County?

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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.