Lafayette County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

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

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 Lafayette County. 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 Lafayette County

• 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.

Lafayette County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Lafayette 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.

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Employers hiring most in Lafayette 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. Granite Construction3 open roles
2. Chipotle Mexican Grill2 open roles
3. mTrade2 open roles
4. Addicus1 open role
5. Altius Search Group1 open role
6. Caterpillar1 open role
7. Content Plus1 open role
8. General Atomics Integrated Intelligence1 open role
9. gpac1 open role
10. Grant Thornton1 open role

Colleges in Lafayette County

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Lafayette 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

• Oxford WIN Job Center

  Oxford · Comprehensive · 662-236-7201

  Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

Cities in Lafayette County

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