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Childress County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Childress County’s unemployment rate is 2.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 11 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Childress County economy

  • 2.7%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    2.8% the month before

  • 3,458

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 6,772

    people in Childress County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $60,333

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 28%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Childress County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Childress 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

Employers hiring most in Childress County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. Crusoe4 open roles
  2. Albertsons Companies1 open role
  3. EquipmentShare1 open role
  4. EquipmentShare.com1 open role
  5. IREN1 open role
  6. Lochridge Priest1 open role
  7. Rosendin Electric1 open role
  8. Safeway1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Panhandle Workforce Development Board

    Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler

Cities in Childress County

Other Texas counties

All of Texas

Laid off or looking for work in Childress County?

See what to do first and the jobs open near you.

See your options after a layoff

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