Lancaster, OH jobs, layoffs and employers
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- Mortgage Loan OriginatorUnified Bank
- Financial AnalystMagna Services
- Senior Staff AccountantCreative Financial Staffing
- Regional Lead Data Center Electrical Engineer, Google Data CentersGoogle
- Electrical Engineer - Power Design (Consulting)GPAC
- Inside Sales RepresentativeCarter Lumber
- Sales Representative - Facility ServicesCintas
- Sales Representative - UniformCintas
- Controls EngineerAndritz Hydro
- Manager of Billing and RatesSouth Central Power Company
Employers hiring most in Lancaster
- Cintas2 open roles
- Andritz Hydro1 open role
- Bickford Senior Living1 open role
- Carter Lumber1 open role
- Creative Financial Staffing1 open role
- Google1 open role
- GPAC1 open role
- Magna Services1 open role
- Sevita1 open role
- South Central Power Company1 open role
Lancaster layoffs
No layoff notices naming Lancaster 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.
Fairfield 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 9.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 6.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.3%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,950 jobs), construction (+741 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Lancaster. They offer free help with job search, training and filing for benefits.
Laid off in Ohio? How to file for unemployment in Ohio (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).
- Fairfield County Economic & Workforce Development/WIOA Area 20, Pickaway, Ross, Fairfield, Hocking and Vinton Counties
Fairfield, Hocking, Pickaway, Ross, Vinton
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Fairfield County economy
3.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.8% the month before
83,516
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
161,289
people in Fairfield County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$87,069
median household income
Source: Census ACS
41%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS
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See your options after a layoffSources: Layoff notices from Ohio’s published record; job counts from our live job board, taken from employers’ own career sites; IPEDS for colleges; CareerOneStop for workforce boards and job centers; Census Bureau and BLS for county figures. Ohio unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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