Cotton County, OK jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Cotton County’s unemployment rate is 3.9%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months.

Cotton County economy

3.9%
unemployment, Aug 2026
2.8% the month before
2,663
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
5,475
people in Cotton County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$60,313
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Cotton County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Cotton 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

Workforce development and job centers

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

South Central Oklahoma Workforce Development Board
Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, McClain, Stephens, Tillman
Southern Workforce Executive Director
Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Haskell, Jefferson, Johnston, Latimer, LeFlore, Love, Marshall, McClain, McCurtain, Murray, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Stephens, Tillman

Other Oklahoma counties

All of Oklahoma

Laid off or looking for work in Cotton County?

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See your options after a layoff

Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); WARN notices from Oklahoma’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers.