Hood County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Hood County’s unemployment rate is 4.5%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 6 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Hood County economy

4.5%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.5% the month before
29,888
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
64,198
people in Hood County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$86,802
median household income
Source: Census ACS
39%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Where Hood County ranks

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

November 2026

#25Counties with the most job centers per unemployed person in the Southwest7.4 per 10,000 · of 97

Hood 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 8.8% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 13.6% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.5%, unchanged from a year ago
Sectors adding the most jobs: admin & staffing (+302 jobs)

Learn and get funded in Hood County

Which AI skills each kind of job asks for, with the pay premium.
Your local workforce board and American Job Centers: training vouchers and re-employment help.
Grants and funding for job seekers, ranked for your state and situation.
Unemployment benefits by state, if you are between jobs.

Hood County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Hood 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.

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Employers hiring most in Hood 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.

Granbury1 open role
O'Reilly Auto Parts1 open role
Pecan Valley Centers for Behavioral and Developmental Health...1 open role
Pecan Valley MH-MR Region1 open role
Uniti1 open role
VoltaGrid1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

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

North Central Texas Workforce Development Board
Collin, Denton, Ellis, Erath, Hood, Hunt, Johnson, Kaufman, Navarro, Palo Pinto, Parker, Rockwall, Somervell, Wise

Workforce Solutions for North Central Texas - Granbury
Granbury · Affiliate · 817-776-8035
Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Cities in Hood County

Granbury6 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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