Wharton, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
Jobs in Wharton
Employers hiring most in Wharton
- Amazon5 open roles
Wharton layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Wharton in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Wharton. 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
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Wharton County economy
5.2%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.7% the month before
19,499
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
41,651
people in Wharton County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$66,100
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
More cities in Wharton County
- Boling3 jobs
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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.