Texarkana’s Educated, Trained Workforce

The Texarkana Talent Pool Runs Deep

Texarkana has a long-established reputation as a military-friendly community with a strong presence in the defense sector. Using the Brookings Institute definition of advanced industries, our 30-mile region employs nearly 2,400 skilled, unskilled and semiskilled workers in fields ranging from pharmaceutical medical manufacturing, computer system design and agriculture machinery manufacturing to engineering services and basic chemical manufacturing.