Brownwood, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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Show me jobs near meJobs in Brownwood
- Enterprise Systems AdministratorHoward Payne University
- Front End Entry LevelAlbertsons Companies
- Front End Entry LevelSafeway
- Sales ManagerUlta Beauty
- Clinical Team ManagerElara Caring
Employers hiring most in Brownwood
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- Elara Caring1 open role
- Howard Payne University1 open role
- Safeway1 open role
- Ulta Beauty1 open role
Brownwood layoffs
No layoff notices naming Brownwood 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 Brownwood
| College | Type | Students |
|---|---|---|
| Howard Payne University | Private non-profit 4-year | Under 1,000 |
Brown 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 2.4% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 1.7% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.1%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: health care (+666 jobs)
- Sectors losing the most jobs: manufacturing (−395 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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Workforce Solutions of West Central Texas- Brownwood
Brownwood · Affiliate · 800-457-5633
Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm
Brown County economy
4.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.1% the month before
17,270
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
38,294
people in Brown County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$55,305
median household income
Source: Census ACS
31%
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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