Hopkinsville, KY jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Area Manager - Service Shop (Transportation)Walmart
- Human Resource Office/Training Manager (Fashion, Grocery, Import, Regional, Returns, Sam's, Wm.Com)Walmart
- General ManagerFreddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers
- Production PlannerHuhtamaki
- Supply Chain ManagerFreudenberg Group
- Supply Chain ManagerFreudenberg Filtration Technologies
- Facilities ManagerManpower
- Business Data AnalystRiken Elastomers
- Facilities Manager Smart Buildings & Vendor LeadershipJLL
- Facilities Manager - Smart Buildings & Vendor OversightJones Lang LaSalle
Employers hiring most in Hopkinsville
- Walmart2 open roles
- Activ8 Recruitment & Solutions1 open role
- Deaconess Health System1 open role
- Deaconess Homecare1 open role
- Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers1 open role
- Freudenberg Filtration Technologies1 open role
- Freudenberg Group1 open role
- Huhtamaki1 open role
- JLL1 open role
- Jones Lang LaSalle1 open role
Hopkinsville layoffs
No layoff notices naming Hopkinsville 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.
Christian County outlook: Cooling
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 1.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 3.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 5.9%, up 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+389 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−357 jobs), transportation & warehousing (−322 jobs)
Learn and get funded in Hopkinsville
- 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.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Hopkinsville. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Kentucky? How to file for unemployment in Kentucky (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- West Kentucky Workforce Development Board
Ballard, Caldwell, Calloway, Carlisle, Christian, Crittenden, Fulton, Graves, Hickman, Hopkins, Livingston, Lyon, Marshall, McCracken, Muhlenberg, Todd, Trigg
Kentucky Career Center - Hopkinsville
Hopkinsville · Comprehensive · 270-889-6509
Monday thru Friday 8:00am - 4:30pm
Christian County economy
5.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.4% the month before
24,006
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
72,599
people in Christian County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$54,190
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
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 Kentucky’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. Kentucky unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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