Bowie County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Bowie County’s unemployment rate is 4.4%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 39 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Bowie County economy

4.4%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.4% the month before
39,812
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
92,321
people in Bowie County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$59,295
median household income
Source: Census ACS
33%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Bowie 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 3.1% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 0.2% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.4%, unchanged from a year ago

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Bowie County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Bowie 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 Bowie 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.

Army Tank-Automotive and Armament Command (TACOM)5 open roles
CHRISTUS Health4 open roles
Texas A&M University System [TAMUT_External]4 open roles
Hadrian3 open roles
StreamingFast3 open roles
Bureau of Prisons/Federal Prison System2 open roles
Texas A&M University-Texarkana2 open roles
American Electric Power1 open role
Bell Lumber and Pole Company1 open role
Bowhead Mission Solutions1 open role

Colleges in Bowie County

Colleges in Bowie County
College	City	Type	Students
Texas A&M University-Texarkana	Texarkana	Public 4-year	1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

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

Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas
Bowie, Cass, Delta, Franklin, Hopkins, Lamar, Morris, Red River, Titus

Workforce Solutions Northeast Texas - Greater Texarkana
Texarkana · Comprehensive · 903-794-4163
M-F 8am-5pm

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

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