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Montgomery County, TN jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Montgomery County’s unemployment rate is 3.6%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 70 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Montgomery County economy

  • 3.6%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    3.8% the month before

  • 106,738

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 227,957

    people in Montgomery County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $72,365

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 37%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Montgomery 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 7.7% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 12.9% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 3.6%, down 0.2 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+1,594 jobs), information (+454 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−802 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Montgomery County. Each link goes to the publisher.

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Montgomery County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Montgomery 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 Montgomery 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. Austin Peay State University13 open roles
  2. LG Electronics9 open roles
  3. Trane U.s.8 open roles
  4. DSV4 open roles
  5. Trane Technologies4 open roles
  6. Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology3 open roles
  7. Vanderbilt University Medical Center3 open roles
  8. Charter Communications2 open roles
  9. 84 Lumber1 open role
  10. Amazon1 open role

Colleges in Montgomery County

Colleges in Montgomery County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Austin Peay State UniversityClarksvillePublic 4-year10,000–19,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

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

  • American Job Center of Tennessee - Clarksville

    Clarksville · Comprehensive · 931-648-5530

    Monday - Friday, 8:00 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.

Cities in Montgomery County

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

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