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Waller County, TX jobs, unemployment and layoffs

Waller County’s unemployment rate is 5.1%. No layoff notices here in the last 12 months. 129 open professional jobs are in its cities.

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Waller County economy

  • 5.1%

    unemployment, Sep 2026

    5.6% the month before

  • 31,379

    in the labor force

    Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics

  • 59,455

    people in Waller County

    Source: U.S. Census Bureau

  • $76,135

    median household income

    Source: Census ACS

  • 34%

    of workers in white-collar occupations

    Management, business, financial and professional; Census ACS

Where Waller County ranks

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

November 2026

Waller 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 21.1% from 2022 to 2025
  • Population up 21.9% from 2020 to 2025
  • Unemployment 5.1%, down 0.5 points from a year ago
  • Sectors adding the most jobs: manufacturing (+1,362 jobs), wholesale (+793 jobs)

Local job-market news

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

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Waller County layoffs

No layoff notices naming Waller 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 Waller 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. Academy Of Excellence16 open roles
  2. PCL Construction5 open roles
  3. Amazon4 open roles
  4. Coregroupresources4 open roles
  5. Lone Star Custard4 open roles
  6. Memorial Hermann Foundation4 open roles
  7. Prairie View A & M University4 open roles
  8. CRH Public3 open roles
  9. Memorial Hermann3 open roles
  10. Texas Children's Hospital3 open roles

Colleges in Waller County

Colleges in Waller County
CollegeCityTypeStudents
Prairie View A & M UniversityPrairie ViewPublic 4-year5,000–9,999

Workforce development and job centers

The public workforce board and American Job Centers serving Waller 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 Gulf Coast - Waller

    Hempstead · Comprehensive · 979-826-0653

    Monday - Friday, 8:00am - 5:00pm

Cities in Waller County

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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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