Runnels County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Runnels County’s unemployment rate is 3.7%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 1 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Runnels County economy

3.7%
unemployment, Aug 2026
3.8% the month before
4,736
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
9,880
people in Runnels County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,490
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Runnels County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Runnels 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 Runnels 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.

Ballinger Memorial Hospital District1 open role

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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.