Oxford, MS jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Production Supervisor - LoadingOLIN
- Private Wealth Management Wealth AdvisorRegions Financial
- Assistant General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- General ManagerChipotle Mexican Grill
- HR GeneralistContent Plus
- Managing DirectorAddicus
- Sr Project Manager/EstimatorGranite Construction
- Sr Engineer/EstimatorGranite Construction
- Project Manager/EstimatorGranite Construction
- Director of Food & BeverageAltius Search Group
Employers hiring most in Oxford
- Granite Construction3 open roles
- Chipotle Mexican Grill2 open roles
- mTrade2 open roles
- Addicus1 open role
- Altius Search Group1 open role
- Caterpillar1 open role
- Content Plus1 open role
- General Atomics Integrated Intelligence1 open role
- gpac1 open role
- Grant Thornton1 open role
Oxford layoffs
No layoff notices naming Oxford 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.
Lafayette County outlook: Building
Built from public Bureau of Labor Statistics and Census figures. It describes the area, not any one employer in it.
- Private-sector jobs up 5.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.6% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 2.4%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: hotels & food (+710 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−350 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Oxford. 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 Oxford
- 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 Oxford. 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
Oxford WIN Job Center
Oxford · Comprehensive · 662-236-7201
Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.
Lafayette County economy
2.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
2.7% the month before
30,536
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
56,920
people in Lafayette County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$64,334
median household income
Source: Census ACS
43%
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 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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