Oktibbeha County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs
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3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.7% the month before
22,756
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
51,473
people in Oktibbeha County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$43,482
median household income
Source: Census ACS
40%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Oktibbeha 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 4.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.4% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+405 jobs)
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Oktibbeha 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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Oktibbeha County layoffs
No layoff notices naming Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha 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.
- Southwire6 open roles
- BankFirst Financial Services2 open roles
- Altius Search Group1 open role
- Camgian1 open role
- MartinFed1 open role
- Mississippi State University1 open role
Colleges in Oktibbeha County
| College | City | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mississippi State University | Mississippi State | Public 4-year | 20,000+ |
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Oktibbeha 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 Oktibbeha 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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