Walton, KY jobs, layoffs and employers

Jobs in Walton

• ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, DISTRIBUTION CENTERDollar General
• Facilities ManagerProfessions
• Facilities ManagerLyons Magnus
• Account ManagerApplied Industrial Technologies
• Medical Device Quality ManagerCrown Staffing
• Manager, Manufacturing OperationsNovolex
• Warehouse ManagerNovolex
• Operations Supervisor (3rd Shift)Dayton Freight Lines
• Management TraineeDayton Freight Lines
• Team Leader I-Physical Flows-2nd ShiftL'Oréal

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Employers hiring most in Walton

1. Dayton Freight Lines2 open roles
2. Novolex2 open roles
3. Applied Industrial Technologies1 open role
4. Crown Staffing1 open role
5. Dollar General1 open role
6. L'Oréal1 open role
7. Lyons Magnus1 open role
8. Professions1 open role

Walton layoffs

No layoff notices naming Walton 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.

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Boone 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 1.0% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 6.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.9%, up 0.1 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: wholesale (+1,504 jobs), health care (+1,026 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−2,189 jobs), management of companies (−814 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

• Dal-Tile workers pack job fair after sudden layoffsWAFF 48 on MSN · Oct 22, 2026
• Job fair for former Dal-Tile employees set for ThursdayThe TimesDaily · Oct 21, 2026
• Dal-Tile Services to shut down Florence facility, impacting 146 workersrocketcitynow.com on MSN · Oct 19, 2026
• Tile manufacturer closing Florence facilityWHNT-TV Huntsville on MSN · Oct 17, 2026

Learn and get funded in Walton

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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 Walton. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

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• Northern Kentucky Workforce Investment Board

  Boone, Campbell, Carroll, Gallatin, Grant, Kenton, Owen, Pendleton

Boone County economy

• 3.9%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.8% the month before

• 75,658

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 137,676

  people in Boone County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $94,752

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 40%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

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