Parmer County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Parmer County’s unemployment rate is 3.2%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 1 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Parmer County economy

3.2%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.2% the month before
4,826
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
9,752
people in Parmer County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$68,164
median household income
Source: Census ACS
27%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Parmer County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Parmer 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 Parmer 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.

Education Service Center Region 161 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

Panhandle Workforce Development Board
Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler

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Laid off or looking for work in Parmer County?

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See your options after a layoff

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.