Palo Pinto County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Palo Pinto County’s unemployment rate is 4.3%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 3 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Palo Pinto County economy

4.3%
unemployment, Sep 2026
4.2% the month before
13,812
in the labor force
Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics
28,920
people in Palo Pinto County
Source: U.S. Census Bureau
$64,972
median household income
Source: Census ACS
29%
of workers in white-collar occupations
Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Palo Pinto 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 8.2% from 2022 to 2025
Population up 8.2% from 2020 to 2025
Unemployment 4.3%, up 0.1 points from a year ago

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Palo Pinto County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Palo Pinto 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 Palo Pinto 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.

Butler1 open role
O'Reilly Auto Parts1 open role
Strivector1 open role

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Palo Pinto 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

Cities in Palo Pinto County

Mineral Wells3 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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