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Buffalo County, NE jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Buffalo County’s unemployment rate is 2.5%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 20 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Buffalo County economy

  • 2.5%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    2.4% the month before

  • 28,872

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 50,323

    people in Buffalo County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $74,570

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 37%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Buffalo County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Buffalo 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 Buffalo 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. West Pharmaceutical Services4 open roles
  2. Wilkins Architecture Design Planning2 open roles
  3. Applied Industrial Technologies1 open role
  4. Buckle1 open role
  5. Century Group1 open role
  6. Charter Communications1 open role
  7. CLAAS of America1 open role
  8. Commonspirit Health1 open role
  9. Commonspirit Health1 open role
  10. Destinationswithdunn1 open role

Colleges in Buffalo County

Colleges in Buffalo County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
University of Nebraska at KearneyKearneyPublic 4-year5,000–9,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Greater Nebraska Workforce Development Board

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Cities in Buffalo County

Other Nebraska counties

All of Nebraska

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