Ankeny, IA jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Ankeny

• Grocery/Bulk Dept ManagerNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
• Vitamin ManagerNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
• Receiving ManagerNatural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage
• Principal AI EngineerMom's Meals
• Strategic Pharmacy Account Manager, Long-Term CareGuardian Pharmacy
• Senior Software EngineerCultura Technologies
• Civil Project EngineerJobot
• Outside Sales RepresentativeFlow Control Group
• Operations ManagerKYADTA Building Supplies
• UX DesignerJohn Deere

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Employers hiring most in Ankeny

1. Mom's Meals3 open roles
2. Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage3 open roles
3. Deere2 open roles
4. Amazon1 open role
5. Ankeny Community School District1 open role
6. Cultura Technologies1 open role
7. Deere John Capital1 open role
8. Essentia Protein Solutions1 open role
9. Fleet Farm1 open role
10. Flow Control Group1 open role

Ankeny layoffs

• 1

  Layoff notices, last 12 months

• 5

  workers named

  A floor: states may leave out counts

• 1

  employer

All layoff notices in the state

Colleges in Ankeny

Polk 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 2.5% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 4.8% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.4%, unchanged from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+4,323 jobs), hotels & food (+1,394 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−924 jobs), information (−334 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Ankeny. Each link goes to the publisher.

• Wells Fargo Cuts 86 Jobs at West Des Moines Campus, Its Biggest Layoff in YearsHoodline · Oct 30, 2026
• Wells Fargo announces single largest mass layoff in at least 5 yearsWHO13 on MSN · Oct 30, 2026
• Wells Fargo announces largest layoff in 5 years at West Des Moines officeThe Quad-City Times · Oct 29, 2026
• Overnight closures on westbound I-80 in West Des MoinesThe Dispatch–Argus · Oct 29, 2026
• Iowa WARN notice says 229 employees will be laid off from UnityPoint HealthWe Are Iowa · Oct 28, 2026
• Wells Fargo adds to Jordan Creek layoffsQuad-City Times · Oct 3, 2026

Learn and get funded in Ankeny

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• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Workforce development and job centers

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

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Polk County economy

• 3.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.4% the month before

• 282,996

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 497,441

  people in Polk County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $81,621

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 45%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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