Wood County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Wood County’s unemployment rate is 5.2%. No WARN layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 4 open professional jobs are in its cities.

Wood County economy

5.2%
unemployment, Aug 2026
5.1% the month before
18,378
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
46,094
people in Wood County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$62,524
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Wood County layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming Wood 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 Wood 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.

BSA Health System1 open role
Confidential1 open role
Peoples Communication1 open role
Primo Brands1 open role

Colleges in Wood County

Colleges in Wood County
College	City	Type	Students
Jarvis Christian University	Hawkins	Private nonprofit 4-year	Under 1,000

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Wood 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 Wood County

Hawkins2 jobs

Other Texas counties

All of Texas

Laid off or looking for work in Wood 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.