Eagle Pass
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**Labor Market Conditions — Eagle Pass**

The Eagle Pass labor market is in equilibrium, holding steady with no strong push in either direction. Employment grew 0.37% over the past year — a modest but positive number that signals the local job base is intact rather than under pressure. Unemployment sits at approximately 4.8%, roughly in line with where it stood a year ago, suggesting neither a surge in layoffs nor a dramatic tightening of available workers.

What's behind this flatness is a market that has largely absorbed prior-cycle swings and settled into a low-volatility pattern. Eagle Pass is a smaller border economy with distinct drivers — cross-border trade activity, regional services, and public-sector employment — and the data reflects that stability rather than the boom-bust swings seen in larger metros. Neither employment growth nor unemployment is moving with any meaningful urgency in either direction (Fig. 1).