Houma, LA jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Hospice Account Executive - Houma/Thibodaux, LAUnitedhealth Group
- Merchandise ManagerUlta Beauty
- Experience ManagerUlta Beauty
- MANAGER IN TRAININGAutozone
- Relationship Banker Team Lead - Martin Luther King Houma BranchRegions Financial
- Regional Vice President of SalesGulf South Risk Services
- Chief EngineerBordelon Marine
- Risk ManagerTerrebonne General Medical Center
- Recruiter/CoordinatorKaizen Lab
Employers hiring most in Houma
- Ulta Beauty2 open roles
- Autozone1 open role
- Bordelon Marine1 open role
- Gulf South Risk Services1 open role
- Kaizen Lab1 open role
- Regions Financial1 open role
- Terrebonne General Medical Center1 open role
- Unitedhealth Group1 open role
Houma layoffs
No layoff notices naming Houma 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.
Terrebonne Parish 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 3.5% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 4.8% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+513 jobs), other services (+332 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−451 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Houma. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Louisiana? How to file for unemployment in Louisiana (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- LAT Workforce Development Board, Inc.
Assumption, LaFourche, Terrebonne
American Job Center - Work Connection Inc.
Houma · Comprehensive · 985-876-8990
Mon-Wed, Fri 8:00am to 4:30pm Thurs 8:00am to 2:30pm
Terrebonne Parish economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
46,031
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
107,362
people in Terrebonne Parish
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$64,819
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
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 Louisiana’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. Louisiana unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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