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Phelps County, NE jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Phelps County’s unemployment rate is 2.2%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 5 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Phelps County economy

  • 2.2%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    2.2% the month before

  • 4,840

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 8,983

    people in Phelps County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $65,988

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 32%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Phelps County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Phelps 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 Phelps 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. IES Holdings4 open roles
  2. Olsson1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Greater Nebraska Workforce Development Board

    Adams, Antelope, Arthur, Banner, Blaine, Boone, Box Butte, Boyd, Brown, Buffalo, Burt, Butler, Cass, Cedar, Chase, Cherry, Cheyenne, Clay, Colfax, Cuming, Custer, Dakota, Dawes, Dawson, Deuel, Dixon, Dodge, Dundy, Fillmore, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gage, Garden, Garfield, Gosper, Grant, Greeley, Hall, Hamilton, Harlan, Hayes, Hitchcock, Holt, Hooker, Howard, Jefferson, Johnson, Kearney, Keith, Keya Paha, Kimball, Knox, Lincoln, Logan, Loup, Madison, McPherson, Merrick, Morrill, Nance, Nemaha, Nuckolls, Otoe, Pawnee, Perkins, Phelps, Pierce, Platte, Polk, Red Willow, Richardson, Rock, Saline, Scotts Bluff, Seward, Sheridan, Sherman, Sioux, Stanton, Thayer, Thomas, Thurston, Valley, Wayne, Webster, Wheeler, York

Cities in Phelps County

Other Nebraska counties

All of Nebraska

Laid off or looking for work in Phelps County?

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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.