New Castle, DE jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Branch ManagerManufacturers and Traders Trust Company
- Medical Director – New Castle – Delawarei4 Search Group
- General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- Manager, Dialer Controls & OperationsSolomon Page
- Manager, IT Compliance & Vendor ManagementLandline
- Purchasing AssistantTriple-S Steel Holdings
- Area Sales DirectorFlowers Foods
- Software DeveloperCONDUENT
- Senior Manager, Education OperationsSallieMae
- Management Analyst III / Program Integrity SpecialistAroha Technologies
Employers hiring most in New Castle
- Waters13 open roles
- Army National Guard Units4 open roles
- Sallie Mae Bank4 open roles
- Amazon3 open roles
- Air National Guard Units2 open roles
- Alstom2 open roles
- Pj Fitzpatrick2 open roles
- Albireo Energy1 open role
- Aroha Technologies1 open role
- Casella Waste Systems1 open role
New Castle layoffs
No layoff notices naming New Castle 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 New Castle
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Wilmington University | Private non-profit 4-year | 10,000–19,999 |
New Castle 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 4.6% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.6%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+7,774 jobs), transportation & warehousing (+1,671 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−1,612 jobs), management of companies (−1,063 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in New Castle. Each link goes to the publisher.
- University of Delaware launches statewide survey on AI in the workplaceDelaware Business Times · Oct 13, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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Laid off in Delaware? How to file for unemployment in Delaware (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Delaware Workforce Development Board
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New Castle County economy
4.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.1% the month before
299,137
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
573,030
people in New Castle County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$89,901
median household income
Source: Census ACS
47%
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 Delaware’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. Delaware unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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