Sebastian County, AR jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Sebastian County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 47 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Sebastian County economy

3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
60,441
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
128,448
people in Sebastian County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,450
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Sebastian 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 4.1% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 2.2% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,289 jobs), manufacturing (+935 jobs)
Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−566 jobs), management of companies (−314 jobs)

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Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Sebastian County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Sebastian 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.

Employers hiring most in Sebastian 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.

Air National Guard Units5 open roles
Rheem4 open roles
Pernod Ricard USA3 open roles
Trane U.s.3 open roles
Owens Corning2 open roles
Rheem Manufacturing2 open roles
Summit Utilities2 open roles
Trane Technologies2 open roles
USTBC ABB Installation Products2 open roles
Walther Manufacturing2 open roles

Colleges in Sebastian County

Colleges in Sebastian County
College	City	Type	Students
University of Arkansas-Fort Smith	Fort Smith	Public 4-year	5,000–9,999
Arkansas Colleges of Health Education	Fort Smith	Private non-profit 4-year	Under 1,000

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Sebastian 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).

Western Arkansas Workforce Development Area
Crawford, Franklin, Logan, Polk, Scott, Sebastian

Arkansas Workforce Center at Fort Smith
Fort Smith · Comprehensive · 479-783-0231
8-4:30 M-F

Cities in Sebastian County

Fort Smith47 jobs

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Sources: 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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