East Texas job growth continues
Posted/updated on: April 9, 2026 at 3:53 pm
TYLER — The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) reports the state added 40,100 ‘non-farm jobs’ to the market in January. According to our news partner KETK, this creates a total of 14 million positions for job-seekers and outpaces the nation in job growth rate. According to the TWC report, Tyler has 115,900 workers and Longview has 123,600 workers.
“Smith County added three jobs in the private sector every day, which outpaced the state and the country last year. We’ve managed to maintain job growth when other communities have struggled,” President of the Tyler Economic Development, Scott Martinez, said.
The leading industries creating jobs in Texas are construction (11,000 new jobs) and medical services (10,000). “These jobs help our families everywhere. These are people in our community who have opportunities to support themselves with these jobs”, Martinez adds.
Looking ahead, economic leaders hope manufacturing jobs will continue to grow for the remainder of 2026. “I think you’ll see some things related to distribution. We’ve got manufacturing companies that are looking at Tyler,” Martinez said.
