Gaines County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Gaines County’s unemployment rate is 3.3%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months.

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Gaines County economy

3.3%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.6% the month before
10,779
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
21,904
people in Gaines County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$76,605
median household income
Source: Census ACS
24%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Gaines County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Gaines 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

Workforce development and job centers

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

Permian Basin Workforce Development Board
Andrews, Borden, Crane, Dawson, Ector, Gaines, Glasscock, Howard, Loving, Martin, Midland, Pecos, Reeves, Terrell, Upton, Ward, Winkler

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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.