Houston, MS jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meHouston layoffs
No layoff notices naming Houston 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.
Chickasaw 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 15.9% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.1%, down 0.6 points from a year ago
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−528 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Houston. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Pontotoc Farmer’s Market scales back time to 8 a.m. startdjournal · Sep 30, 2026
Learn and get funded in Houston
- 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 Houston. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Mississippi? How to file for unemployment in Mississippi (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Mississippi Partnership Workforce Investment Area
Alcorn, Attala, Benton, Calhoun, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Clay, De Soto, Grenada, Itawamba, Lafayette, Lee, Lowndes, Marshall, Monroe, Montgomery, Noxubee, Oktibbeha, Pontotoc, Prentiss, Tate, Tippah, Tishomingo, Union, Webster, Winston, Yalobusha
Houston WIN Job Center
Houston · Comprehensive · 662-407-1219
Mon-Fri 8am-4:30pm; Closed daily 12pm-1pm
Chickasaw County economy
4.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.7% the month before
5,681
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
16,994
people in Chickasaw County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$43,041
median household income
Source: Census ACS
21%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Laid off or looking for work in Houston?
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Mississippi’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. Mississippi unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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