Baxter County, AR jobs, unemployment and layoffs
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Show me jobs near meBaxter County economy
3.8%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.6% the month before
17,669
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
42,150
people in Baxter County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$48,427
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Baxter County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 5.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.8%, down 0.8 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+597 jobs), admin & staffing (+454 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−427 jobs)
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Baxter County layoffs
No layoff notices naming Baxter County 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.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Baxter County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Arkansas? How to file for unemployment in Arkansas (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Northwest Arkansas Workforce Development Board
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See your options after a layoffSources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); layoff notices from Arkansas’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers. Arkansas unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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