Rusk County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Rusk County’s unemployment rate is 4.8%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 5 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Rusk County economy

4.8%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.9% the month before
21,786
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
52,613
people in Rusk County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$67,506
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Rusk County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Rusk 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 Rusk 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.

BlackRock Resources1 open role
Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
Builders FirstSource1 open role
Cisco IOS1 open role
H&R Block1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

East Texas Workforce Development Board
Anderson, Camp, Cherokee, Gregg, Harrison, Henderson, Marion, Panola, Rains, Rusk, Smith, Upshur, Van Zandt, Wood

Cities in Rusk County

Henderson5 jobs

Other Texas counties

All of Texas

Laid off or looking for work in Rusk County?

See what to do first and the jobs open near you.

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.