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Cooke County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Cooke County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 7 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Cooke County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Aug 2026

    5.0% the month before

  • 22,603

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 42,473

    people in Cooke County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $72,472

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 32%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Cooke County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Cooke 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 Cooke 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. GAF2 open roles
  2. eTeam1 open role
  3. Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers1 open role
  4. North Central Texas College1 open role
  5. Safran1 open role
  6. Thinking Ahead1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

  • Workforce Solutions Texoma

    Gainesville · Affiliate · 940-665-1121

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

Cities in Cooke County

Other Texas counties

All of Texas

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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.