Fayette County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs
Fayette County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.1% the month before
10,830
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
24,783
people in Fayette County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$76,541
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Fayette County layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Fayette County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Employers hiring most in Fayette 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.
- Bluebonnet Trails Community1 open role
- Bluebonnet Trails Community Services1 open role
- Elara Caring1 open role
- Ethos Behavioral Health Group1 open role
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Fayette County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- Rural Capital Area Workforce Development Board, Inc.
Bastrop, Blanco, Burnet, Caldwell, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Llano, Williamson
Workforce Solutions Rural Capital Area - La Grange
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Monday - Friday 8:00am-5:00pm
Cities in Fayette County
- La Grange3 jobs
Other Texas counties
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See your options after a layoffSources: 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.