Webster County, MS jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Webster County’s unemployment rate is 2.7%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 1 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Webster County economy

2.7%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.1% the month before
4,553
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
9,942
people in Webster County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$59,964
median household income
Source: Census ACS
34%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Webster 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 6.8% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 2.6% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 2.7%, down 0.4 points from a year ago

Local job-market news

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

No layoff notices naming Webster 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.

All layoff notices in the state

Employers hiring most in Webster 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.

Plymouth Tube1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Webster 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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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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