College Place, WA jobs, layoffs and employers

College Place layoffs

No WARN layoff notices naming College Place 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

Colleges in College Place

Colleges in College Place
College	Type	Students
Walla Walla University	Private nonprofit 4-year	1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

Eastern Washington Partnership Workforce Dev. Council
Asotin, Columbia, Ferry, Garfield, Lincoln, Pend Oreille, Stevens, Walla Walla, Whitman

Walla Walla County economy

4.2%
unemployment, Aug 2026
4.2% the month before
29,290
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
62,102
people in Walla Walla County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$72,212
median household income
Source: Census ACS
37%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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Laid off or looking for work in College Place?

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Sources: WARN notices from Washington’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures.