North Wilkesboro, NC jobs, layoffs and employers

North Wilkesboro layoffs

No layoff notices naming North Wilkesboro 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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Wilkes 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 5.2% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 0.5% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.2%, down 0.7 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+579 jobs)
• Sectors losing the most jobs: retail (−929 jobs), manufacturing (−316 jobs)

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Workforce development and job centers

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

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• High Country Workforce Development Board

  Alleghany, Ashe, Avery, Mitchell, Watauga, Wilkes, Yancey

• NCWorks Career Center- Wilkes County

  North Wilkesboro · Comprehensive · 336-838-5164

  Mon-Thurs 8am-5pm (Closed 12:00pm-1:00pm); Fri 8am-12pm

Wilkes County economy

• 3.2%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.9% the month before

• 25,441

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 65,983

  people in Wilkes County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $50,438

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 29%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS