Columbus, TX jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Columbus

• Executive Director: Community Heritage & Revenue GrowthColumbus Historical Preservation Trust
• Leadership Development Program Candidate - SalesGreat Southern Wood-Columbus
• Territory Sales ManagerDiversitech

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Employers hiring most in Columbus

1. Columbus Historical Preservation Trust1 open role
2. Diversitech1 open role
3. Great Southern Wood-Columbus1 open role

Columbus layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Columbus in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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Workforce development and job centers

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

• Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board

  Austin, Brazoria, Chambers, Colorado, Fort Bend, Galveston, Harris, Liberty, Matagorda, Montgomery, Walker, Waller, Wharton

• Workforce Solutions Gulf Coast - Columbus

  Columbus · Comprehensive · 979-732-3299

  Monday - Friday 8:00am-5:00pm

Colorado County economy

• 4.0%

  unemployment, Aug 2026

  4.2% the month before

• 10,007

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 20,736

  people in Colorado County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $68,554

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 40%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS