Harrington, DE jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Pharmacy Operations ManagerWalgreens
- Plant Operations DirectorIndustrial Resource Group
Employers hiring most in Harrington
- Industrial Resource Group1 open role
- Walgreens1 open role
Harrington layoffs
No layoff notices naming Harrington 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.
Kent County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Population up 6.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.0%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: professional & technical (+672 jobs), finance & insurance (+520 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−817 jobs), admin & staffing (−598 jobs)
Local job-market news
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- University of Delaware launches statewide survey on AI in the workplaceDelaware Business Times · Oct 13, 2026
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Kent County economy
5.0%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.6% the month before
82,965
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
185,043
people in Kent County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$72,872
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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