Seneca County, NY jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Seneca County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 12 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Seneca County economy

3.6%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.5% the month before
14,697
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
33,125
people in Seneca County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$66,007
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Seneca 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 0.3% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 1.7% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.6%, up 0.1 points from a year ago

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Seneca County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Seneca 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 Seneca 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.

Churchill Downs4 open roles
Acrisure1 open role
Acrisure Trade Credit1 open role
C.R. Fletcher Assoc.1 open role
Cleary-Gottlieb-Steen-1 open role
del Lago Resort & Casino1 open role
ITT Inc. - English US1 open role
Mozaic1 open role
Pe-Risk1 open role

Colleges in Seneca County

Colleges in Seneca County
College	City	Type	Students
Northeast College of Health Sciences	Seneca Falls	Private non-profit 4-year	Under 1,000

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Seneca County. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.

Laid off in New York? How to file for unemployment in New York (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

Finger Lakes Workforce Investment Board, Inc.
Ontario, Seneca, Wayne, Yates

Finger Lakes Works - Seneca
Waterloo · Affiliate · 315-539-1905
Monday - Friday 8:30am - 5:00pm

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Sources: Census Bureau and BLS (county unemployment is not seasonally adjusted); layoff notices from New York’s published record; job counts from our live job board; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers. New York unemployment benefits and severance rules.

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