Iowa workforce development boards and American Job Centers

Iowa at a glance

• 3.2%

  unemployment, Sep 2026

  Source: BLS Local Area Unemployment Statistics, counties summed

• 93

  Layoff notices, last 12 months

  naming 3,637 workers

• 18

  American Job Centers

• 35

  colleges in the IPEDS directory

  public and private nonprofit

See every Iowa layoff notice

Laid off in Iowa? How to file for unemployment in Iowa (steps, weekly amount and the appeal deadline).

Workforce boards

• Central Iowa LWDA

  Boone, Dallas, Jasper, Madison, Marion, Polk, Story, Warren

• East Central Iowa LWDA

  Benton, Cedar, Iowa, Johnson, Jones, Linn, Washington

• Eastern Iowa Workforce Development Board

  Clinton, Des Moines, Henry, Jackson, Lee, Louisa, Muscatine, Scott

• Iowa Plains Local Workforce Development Area

  Adair, Adams, Audubon, Buena Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Cass, Cherokee, Clarke, Clay, Crawford, Decatur, Dickinson, Emmet, Fremont, Greene, Guthrie, Hamilton, Harrison, Humboldt, Ida, Kossuth, Lyon, Mills, Monona, Montgomery, O'Brien, Osceola, Page, Palo Alto, Plymouth, Pocahontas, Pottawattamie, Ringgold, Sac, Shelby, Sioux, Taylor, Union, Webster, Woodbury, Wright

• Northeast Iowa LWDA

  Allamakee, Black Hawk, Bremer, Buchanan, Butler, Cerro Gordo, Chickasaw, Clayton, Delaware, Dubuque, Fayette, Floyd, Franklin, Grundy, Hancock, Howard, Mitchell, Winnebago, Winneshiek, Worth

• South Central Iowa LWDA

  Appanoose, Davis, Hardin, Jefferson, Keokuk, Lucas, Mahaska, Marshall, Monroe, Poweshiek, Tama, Van Buren, Wapello, Wayne

American Job Centers