Columbia, IN jobs, layoffs and employers
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No layoff notices naming Columbia 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.
Jennings 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 4.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, unchanged from a year ago
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Jennings County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.2% the month before
14,761
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
27,584
people in Jennings County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$68,476
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
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 Indiana’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. Indiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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