Cotton County, OK jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Cotton County’s unemployment rate is 3.5%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 1 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Cotton County economy

3.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.0% the month before
2,634
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
5,475
people in Cotton County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$60,313
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Cotton 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 32.4% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 1.9% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 3.5%, up 0.5 points from a year ago

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Cotton County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Cotton 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 Cotton 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.

Alpha Agency1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

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

South Central Oklahoma Workforce Development Board
Caddo, Comanche, Cotton, Grady, Jefferson, McClain, Stephens, Tillman
Southern Workforce Executive Director
Atoka, Bryan, Caddo, Carter, Choctaw, Coal, Comanche, Cotton, Garvin, Grady, Haskell, Jefferson, Johnston, Latimer, LeFlore, Love, Marshall, McClain, McCurtain, Murray, Pittsburg, Pontotoc, Pushmataha, Stephens, Tillman

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

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