Lowndes County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs
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Show me jobs near meLowndes County economy
3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.9% the month before
25,213
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
58,187
people in Lowndes County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$54,460
median household income
Source: Census ACS
32%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Lowndes 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 up 6.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population down 2.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: construction (+1,174 jobs), health care (+458 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (−300 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Lowndes County. Each link goes to the publisher.
- Pontotoc Farmer’s Market scales back time to 8 a.m. startdjournal · Sep 30, 2026
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- Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
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Lowndes County layoffs
No layoff notices naming Lowndes 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.
Employers hiring most in Lowndes 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.
- Paccar13 open roles
- Air Education and Training Command2 open roles
- CRH Public2 open roles
- Steel Dynamics2 open roles
- Beloit Health System1 open role
- Biocarbon Solutions1 open role
- Dutch Lubricants1 open role
- EquipmentShare.com1 open role
- Humana1 open role
- PACCAR Winch1 open role
Colleges in Lowndes County
| College | City | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi University for Women | Columbus | Public 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Lowndes 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
Cities in Lowndes County
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See your options after a layoffSources: 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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