US Counties With the Highest Business Closing Rates
3,144 US counties ranked by business closing rate, from highest to lowest. First are Borden County, TX (36.4), Loup County, NE (27.3) and Jackson County, CO (26.3). The middle one of the 3,144 has 8.51.
What this measures
Closings as a percentage of the place's business locations (the average of this March and last). Source: Census Business Dynamics Statistics.
For most measures, a national ranking mostly sorts places by income and by how urban they are. Each county’s own page compares it with the 50 counties most like it instead, which is often the fairer view.
The 100 highest counties
Every state, highest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % of establishments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colorado | 11.2 |
| 2 | Florida | 10.9 |
| 3 | Nevada | 10.8 |
| 4 | Utah | 10.5 |
| 5 | Idaho | 10.4 |
| 6 | Washington | 10.3 |
| 7 | Wyoming | 10.3 |
| 8 | California | 10.3 |
| 9 | Arizona | 10.3 |
| 10 | Georgia | 10.2 |
| 11 | Delaware | 9.95 |
| 12 | Oregon | 9.82 |
| 13 | Montana | 9.71 |
| 14 | New York | 9.69 |
| 15 | New Jersey | 9.58 |
| 16 | Missouri | 9.58 |
| 17 | Texas | 9.39 |
| 18 | New Mexico | 9.24 |
| 19 | Illinois | 9.13 |
| 20 | Maryland | 9.13 |
| 21 | Alaska | 9.12 |
| 22 | North Carolina | 9.07 |
| 23 | Virginia | 8.95 |
| 24 | Oklahoma | 8.92 |
| 25 | District of Columbia | 8.86 |
| 26 | Hawaii | 8.79 |
| 27 | Rhode Island | 8.77 |
| 28 | Tennessee | 8.72 |
| 29 | Maine | 8.62 |
| 30 | Minnesota | 8.59 |
| 31 | South Carolina | 8.58 |
| 32 | Vermont | 8.57 |
| 33 | Mississippi | 8.54 |
| 34 | New Hampshire | 8.52 |
| 35 | Connecticut | 8.47 |
| 36 | Massachusetts | 8.44 |
| 37 | Michigan | 8.43 |
| 38 | Indiana | 8.42 |
| 39 | Iowa | 8.41 |
| 40 | South Dakota | 8.35 |
| 41 | Kansas | 8.33 |
| 42 | West Virginia | 8.31 |
| 43 | Alabama | 8.23 |
| 44 | Nebraska | 8.21 |
| 45 | Kentucky | 8.2 |
| 46 | Pennsylvania | 8.16 |
| 47 | Ohio | 8.15 |
| 48 | Wisconsin | 8.1 |
| 49 | Louisiana | 8.06 |
| 50 | Arkansas | 8.05 |
| 51 | North Dakota | 7.99 |
More on business closing rate
- US Counties With the Lowest Business Closing Rates
- Business closing rate by US county: map by year and what it goes with
A ranking describes places, not the people in them, and a high or low place does not by itself say why. All US rankings.