Tate County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs
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Show me jobs near meTate County economy
3.2%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.7% the month before
12,178
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
28,135
people in Tate County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$63,995
median household income
Source: Census ACS
30%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
Tate 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 16.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 2.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Tate 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 Tate 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.
Tate County layoffs
No layoff notices naming Tate 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 Tate 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.
Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Tate 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
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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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