Kent County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Kent County’s unemployment rate is 4.4%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months.

Kent County economy

4.4%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.5% the month before
321
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
727
people in Kent County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$71,420
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Kent County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Kent County in the last 12 months are on file. WARN covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.

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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.