Tishomingo County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Tishomingo County’s unemployment rate is 3.3%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 13 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Tishomingo County economy

3.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.5% the month before
7,565
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
18,738
people in Tishomingo County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$46,257
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Tishomingo 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 down 4.2% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 1.1% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.2 points from a year ago

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Tishomingo 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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Tishomingo County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Tishomingo 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 Tishomingo 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.

Northrop Grumman6 open roles
Northrop Grumman Systems3 open roles
Federal Signal2 open roles
Nucor1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Tishomingo 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

Iuka WIN Job Center
Iuka · Comprehensive · 662-423-9231
Tuesday & Thursday only from 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Cities in Tishomingo County

Iuka11 jobs

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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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