Wayne County, IN jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Wayne County’s unemployment rate is 3.9%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 21 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Wayne County economy

3.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.7% the month before
30,741
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
66,377
people in Wayne County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$56,652
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Where Wayne County ranks

Where Wayne County placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

#24Counties with the most job centers per unemployed person in the Great Lakes8.4 per 10,000 · of 100

Wayne 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 down 0.9% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 0.5% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.9%, up 0.2 points from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+484 jobs)
Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−390 jobs), retail (−342 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Wayne County

Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Wayne County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Wayne County 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.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Wayne County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

Belden4 open roles
Damar Services3 open roles
Earlham College2 open roles
State of Indiana2 open roles
Transcendia2 open roles
Chipotle Mexican Grill1 open role
Chubb1 open role
Colgate Palmolive1 open role
Confidential1 open role
General Mills1 open role

Largest employers headquartered in Wayne County

Belden5,001–20,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Colleges in Wayne County

Colleges in Wayne County
College	City	Type	Students
Indiana University-East	Richmond	Public 4-year	1,000–4,999
Bethany Theological Seminary	Richmond	Private non-profit 4-year	Under 1,000
Earlham College	Richmond	Private non-profit 4-year	Under 1,000

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Wayne County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in Indiana? How to file for unemployment in Indiana (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

Eastern Indiana Works
Blackford, Delaware, Fayette, Henry, Jay, Randolph, Rush, Union, Wayne

WorkOne Richmond
Richmond · Affiliate · 765-962-8591
Monday,Tuesday,Wednesday and Friday 8am-4:30pm,Thursday 10:00am-4:30pm

Cities in Wayne County

Richmond21 jobs

Other Indiana counties

All of Indiana

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); layoff notices from Indiana’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers. Indiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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