Forney, TX jobs, layoffs and employers
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- B2B Outside Sales RepresentativeTrelevate
- Operations Process Analyst - 100% On SiteKnight-Swift Warehousing & Fulfillment
- Forney Grocery - Overnight Stock Controller - Full TimeH-E-B
- Manufacturing Engineer II - BLUvera ManufacturingMortenson
- Chief Quality Medical Officer-Texas Health ForneyTexas Health Resources
- Chief Nursing Officer-Texas Health ForneyTexas Health Resources
- Sales Representative - No Experience RequiredGaither-Everett
- Business ManagerWestern Dental
- Senior Regional EHS ManagerAmazon
- Area ManagerAmazon
Employers hiring most in Forney
- Amazon3 open roles
- Texas Health Resources2 open roles
- Gaither-Everett1 open role
- H-E-B1 open role
- Knight-Swift Warehousing & Fulfillment1 open role
- Mortenson1 open role
- Trelevate1 open role
- VCA Animal Hospitals1 open role
- Western Dental1 open role
Forney layoffs
No layoff notices naming Forney 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.
Kaufman 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 19.2% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 42.2% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 4.4%, unchanged from a year ago
- Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+1,130 jobs), hotels & food (+964 jobs)
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Workforce development and job centers
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- North Central Texas Workforce Development Board
Collin, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Wise
Kaufman County economy
4.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
104,473
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
160,718
people in Kaufman County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$88,606
median household income
Source: Census ACS
38%
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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