Belton, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Belton
- Management Trainee - Entry LevelTRVC
- AM Programmer IIStratasys
- HSE SpecialistNOV
- Territory Account ManagerEquipmentShare.com
Employers hiring most in Belton
- EquipmentShare.com1 open role
- NOV1 open role
- Stratasys1 open role
- TRVC1 open role
Belton layoffs
No layoff notices naming Belton 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.
Colleges in Belton
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| University of Mary Hardin-Baylor | Private non-profit 4-year | 1,000–4,999 |
Bell 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 4.1% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 8.0% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.9%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+1,470 jobs), construction (+1,396 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: admin & staffing (−334 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Central Texas Workforce Development Board
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Bell County economy
4.9%
unemployment, Sep 2026
5.0% the month before
168,919
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
379,811
people in Bell County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$66,051
median household income
Source: Census ACS
36%
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 Texas’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. Texas unemployment benefits and severance rules.
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