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Chambers County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Chambers County’s unemployment rate is 4.9%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 1 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Chambers County economy

  • 4.9%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    5.2% the month before

  • 27,606

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 49,178

    people in Chambers County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $108,114

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 40%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Where Chambers County ranks

Where Chambers County placed in our monthly rankings, month by month. Each month stays online at its own address.

November 2026

Chambers 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 20.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 22.6% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 4.9%, down 0.3 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: transportation & warehousing (+747 jobs), hotels & food (+517 jobs)
  • Sectors losing the most jobs: construction (−769 jobs)

Local job-market news

Recent headlines about layoffs, AI and jobs in Chambers County. Each link goes to the publisher.

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Chambers County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Chambers 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 Chambers 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.

  1. Barbers Hill ISD1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Chambers 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).

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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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