Athens, AL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Marketing CoordinatorGrayson Carter & Son Contracting
- Quality EngineerNDC
- Team Leader Dept. 4 - 1stTenneco
- Maintenance ManagerTenneco
- Value Stream ManagerTenneco
- Human Resources ManagerTenneco
- Production SupervisorTenneco
- Quality ManagerTenneco
- Manufacturing EngineerTenneco
Employers hiring most in Athens
- Tenneco7 open roles
- Grayson Carter & Son Contracting1 open role
- NDC1 open role
Athens layoffs
No layoff notices naming Athens in the last 12 months are on file. The WARN Act covers employers with 100 or more workers, so smaller layoffs are not in it.
Colleges in Athens
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Athens State University | Public 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Limestone County outlook: Steady
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 22.8% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 18.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.0%, up 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+3,141 jobs), health care (+687 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−318 jobs), retail (−309 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Athens. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Brick manufacturer closing Alabama facility, laying off 50 workersal.com on MSN · Oct 28, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Limestone County economy
3.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.5% the month before
59,309
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
107,577
people in Limestone County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$83,534
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Alabama’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. Alabama unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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