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Grenada County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Grenada County’s unemployment rate is 4.0%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 4 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Grenada County economy

  • 4.0%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    4.0% the month before

  • 8,002

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 21,342

    people in Grenada County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $47,998

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 34%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Grenada 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 down 2.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population down 3.3% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.0%, unchanged from a year ago
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−574 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

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Grenada County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Grenada County 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.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Grenada County

Employers with the most open professional roles in this county’s cities. The county is taken from each job’s city, so roles with no city are not counted.

  1. Lennox International1 open role
  2. Modine Manufacturing Company1 open role
  3. Pure Grenada1 open role
  4. Vital Health Care Group1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Grenada County. 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

  • Grenada WIN Job Center

    Grenada · Comprehensive · 662-226-2911

    Mon. - Fri. 8:00am - 5:00pm - Closed Wed. 4:00pm

Cities in Grenada County

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); layoff notices from Mississippi’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers. Mississippi unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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