Mifflin County, PA jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Mifflin County economy

• 2.4%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.7% the month before

• 24,037

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 46,074

  people in Mifflin County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $61,415

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 25%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Mifflin 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 9.4% from 2022 to 2025
• Population down 0.0% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 2.4%, down 1.3 points from a year ago
• Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+505 jobs), manufacturing (+473 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Mifflin County

• Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
• Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
• Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
• Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Mifflin County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Mifflin 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.

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Employers hiring most in Mifflin 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.

1. Acrisure5 open roles
2. Teleflex4 open roles
3. Charles River Laboratories International3 open roles
4. Contemporarystaffing3 open roles
5. Trinseo3 open roles
6. Artech2 open roles
7. Avantor2 open roles
8. firstPRO2 open roles
9. Global Tax Management2 open roles
10. iPipeline2 open roles

Largest employers headquartered in Mifflin County

• Teleflex5,001–20,000 employees

Employee counts with a year are published figures (Wikidata). Other sizes are estimates from our company directory, not payroll counts.

Workforce development and job centers

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

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

• Central Pennsylvania Workforce Development Board doing business as Advance Central PA

  Centre, Clinton, Columbia, Lycoming, Mifflin, Montour, Northumberland, Snyder, Union

• PA CareerLink - Mifflin County at Lewistown

  Lewistown · Comprehensive · 717-248-4942

  Mon/Tue/Thurs/ Fri. - 8:30 to 4:30pm; Wednesday 9 to 4:30pm

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