Kaufman County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs
Kaufman County economy
4.7%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.5% the month before
104,140
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
160,718
people in Kaufman County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$88,606
median household income
Source: Census ACS
38%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Kaufman County layoffs
No WARN layoff notices naming Kaufman 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 Kaufman 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.
- Amazon4 open roles
- Oldcastle BuildingEnvelope4 open roles
- American National Bank of Texas1 open role
- GPAC1 open role
- Knight-Swift Warehousing & Fulfillment1 open role
- Texas Health Resources1 open role
- VCA1 open role
- VCA Animal Hospitals1 open role
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Kaufman County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
- North Central Texas Workforce Development Board
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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.