Hale County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Hale County’s unemployment rate is 4.1%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 17 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Hale County economy

4.1%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.3% the month before
13,775
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
32,247
people in Hale County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$52,788
median household income
Source: Census ACS
28%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Hale 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 2.3% from 2022 to 2025
Population down 2.0% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.1%, down 0.2 points from a year ago

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Hale County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Hale 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 Hale 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.

Albertsons Companies2 open roles
Legal Aid of NorthWest Texas2 open roles
Providence2 open roles
Safeway2 open roles
Acupath Laboratories1 open role
Agence PROvidence1 open role
ATLAS Navigators1 open role
Executive Alliance1 open role
Providence Health & Services Oregon1 open role

Colleges in Hale County

Colleges in Hale County
College	City	Type	Students
Wayland Baptist University	Plainview	Private non-profit 4-year	1,000–4,999

Workforce development and job centers

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

South Plains Workforce Development Board
Bailey, Cochran, Crosby, Dickens, Floyd, Garza, Hale, Hockley, King, Lamb, Lubbock, Lynn, Motley, Terry, Yoakum

Workforce Solutions South Plains - Plainview
Plainview · Comprehensive · 806-293-8566
Monday - Friday, 8:00am -5:00pm

Cities in Hale County

Plainview17 jobs

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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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