Kilgore, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Kilgore
- Branch Manager (AMS)Enerflex
- Inside Sales RepresentativeBell Supply Company
- Outside Sales RepresentativeCharter Communications
- Director, Safety and SecurityKilgore Independent School District
Employers hiring most in Kilgore
- Bell Supply Company1 open role
- Charter Communications1 open role
- Enerflex1 open role
- Kilgore Independent School District1 open role
Kilgore layoffs
No layoff notices naming Kilgore in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Gregg County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 1.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.7%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: retail (+937 jobs), manufacturing (+386 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: mining & energy (−581 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- East Texas Workforce Development Board
Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood
Gregg County economy
4.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.8% the month before
57,777
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
124,860
people in Gregg County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$64,809
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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