Elizabethton, TN jobs, layoffs and employers

Elizabethton layoffs

No layoff notices naming Elizabethton 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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Carter 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 10.3% from 2022 to 2025
• Population up 1.7% from 2020 to 2025
• Unemployment 3.5%, down 0.4 points from a year ago

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Workforce development and job centers

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

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• Northeast Tennessee Workforce Development Board

  Carter, Greene, Hancock, Hawkins, Johnson, Sullivan, Unicoi, Washington

• American Job Center of Tennessee - Elizabethton

  Elizabethton · Affiliate · 423-547-7515

  8:00 AM - 4:30 PM, Monday - Friday

Carter County economy

• 3.5%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  3.9% the month before

• 23,996

  in the labor force

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

• 56,462

  people in Carter County

  Source: U.S. Census Bureau

• $48,435

  median household income

  Source: Census ACS

• 32%

  of workers in white-collar occupations

  Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS