Prairie View, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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No WARN layoff notices naming Prairie View in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Colleges in Prairie View
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Prairie View A & M University | Public 4-year | 5,000–9,999 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Prairie View. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Gulf Coast Workforce Development Board
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Waller County economy
5.6%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.7% the month before
31,375
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
59,455
people in Waller County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$76,135
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Waller County
- Katy111 jobs
- Brookshire10 jobs
- Waller7 jobs
- Hempstead
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See your options after a layoffSources: WARN notices from Texas’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.