Vance, AL jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Strategic Sourcing Analyst - Global Auto Supply ChainDaimler Trucks North America
- Senior Quality EngineerLear
Employers hiring most in Vance
- Daimler Trucks North America1 open role
- Lear1 open role
Vance layoffs
No layoff notices naming Vance 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.
Tuscaloosa 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 4.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.1%, up 1.0 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+929 jobs), health care (+762 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−742 jobs)
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- West, Region 3 Board
Bibb, Fayette, Greene, Hale, Lamar, Marengo, Pickens, Sumter, Tuscaloosa
Tuscaloosa County economy
4.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.1% the month before
112,613
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
234,036
people in Tuscaloosa County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,947
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
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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