Avon Park, FL jobs, layoffs and employers
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No layoff notices naming Avon Park 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 Avon Park
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| South Florida State College | Public 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Highlands 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 1.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 9.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 6.3%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+482 jobs)
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Highlands County economy
6.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
6.1% the month before
36,340
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
103,808
people in Highlands County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$55,581
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
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 Florida’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. Florida unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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