Garden Grove, CA jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Assistant Director Nursing VNPNUniversal Technical Institute
- Senior Process EngineerAmrize
- Immigration Attorney- 2025856World Relief Corporation O National
- Senior HR Manager Part-Time, Growth-Driven (Garden Grove)Capital Growth Partners
- Senior Advanced Manufacturing Engineer, BatteryHarbinger Motors
- Staff Mechanical Engineer, PowertrainHarbinger Motors
- Staff Powertrain Engineer (Advanced Engineering)Harbinger Motors
- Senior Test Integration Engineer, PowertrainHarbinger Motors
- Investor Relations ManagerHarbinger Motors
- 2nd Shift Production ManagerHarbinger Motors
Employers hiring most in Garden Grove
- Harbinger Motors49 open roles
- Harbinger2 open roles
- Amrize1 open role
- Bisno1 open role
- Brookdale Senior Living1 open role
- Capital Growth Partners1 open role
- Charter Communications1 open role
- Energy Innovation1 open role
- Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology1 open role
- Jay1 open role
Garden Grove layoffs
No layoff notices naming Garden Grove 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 Garden Grove
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Haven University | Private non-profit 4-year | Under 1,000 |
Orange 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 1.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 1.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.3%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+30,241 jobs), arts & recreation (+9,954 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−17,259 jobs), finance & insurance (−9,879 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Garden Grove. Each link goes to the publisher.
- The SAUSD is $187M in the hole, yet Santa Ana voters reelected their School Board TrusteesNew Santa Ana · Nov 11, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Anaheim Workforce Development Board
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- Orange County Workforce Development Board
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City: Santa Ana
Orange County economy
4.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
1,615,890
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
3,164,063
people in Orange County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$113,702
median household income
Source: Census ACS
46%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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