Elyria, OH jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Logistics ManagerCarvana
- Director SourcingEmerson
- Environmental Health and Safety ManagerEmerson
- Manufacturing Training ManagerEmerson
- Commodity ManagerEmerson
- Product ManagerEmerson
- Project ManagerEmerson
- Product EngineerEmerson
- Production Supervisor - 3rd shiftEmerson
- Cost Modeling EngineerEmerson
Employers hiring most in Elyria
- Emerson12 open roles
- Crane10 open roles
- Carvana8 open roles
- Giant Eagle2 open roles
- Republic Services2 open roles
- The Salvation Army2 open roles
- Barksdale Resources1 open role
- Charter Communications1 open role
- Coca-Cola North America bottlers (CONA)1 open role
- NEOEx Systems1 open role
Elyria layoffs
No layoff notices naming Elyria 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.
Lorain 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 4.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 3.1% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 1.9%, down 1.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+2,771 jobs), hotels & food (+728 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−336 jobs)
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Elyria · Comprehensive · 440-324-5244
M-F 8am - 4:30pm
Lorain County economy
1.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.4% the month before
158,110
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
314,588
people in Lorain County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$70,693
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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