Hereford, TX jobs, layoffs and employers

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- Operations Manager IPatterson Companies
- Sales Account ManagerWhiteface Ford
- Front End Entry LevelSafeway
- Front End Entry LevelAlbertsons Companies
- Merchandising SpecialistO'Reilly Auto Parts
Employers hiring most in Hereford
- Albertsons Companies1 open role
- O'Reilly Auto Parts1 open role
- Patterson Companies1 open role
- Safeway1 open role
- Whiteface Ford1 open role
Hereford layoffs
No layoff notices naming Hereford 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.
Deaf Smith 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 down 2.7% from 2022 to 2025
- Population up 0.5% from 2020 to 2025
- Unemployment 3.5%, down 0.1 points from a year ago
Local job-market news
Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Hereford. Each link goes to the publisher.
- District adjusts after closing three schools as leaders seek new community partnershipsKVII on MSN · Oct 15, 2026
- Amarillo Globe-News staff laid offamarillotribune · Oct 5, 2026
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Workforce development and job centers
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- Panhandle Workforce Development Board
Armstrong, Briscoe, Carson, Castro, Childress, Collingsworth, Dallam, Deaf Smith, Donley, Gray, Hall, Hansford, Hartley, Hemphill, Hutchinson, Lipscomb, Moore, Ochiltree, Oldham, Parmer, Potter, Randall, Roberts, Sherman, Swisher, Wheeler
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Deaf Smith County economy
3.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
3.6% the month before
8,566
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
18,487
people in Deaf Smith County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$54,114
median household income
Source: Census ACS
22%
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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