US Counties With the Highest Business Establishments Opened

3,142 US counties ranked by business establishments opened, from highest to lowest. First are Bristol Bay Borough, AK (20.50), Sheridan County, WY (15.01) and San Juan County, CO (14.49). The middle one of the 3,142 has 1.84.

What this measures

Business locations that had employees in March and none a year earlier: new businesses, or new locations of old ones. A business moving in from another state counts here too. The data cannot tell the two apart. Source: Census Business Dynamics Statistics.

This is a count, so it is ranked per 1,000 residents. Ranked by the raw total, it would just list the biggest counties.

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.

More on business establishments opened

• US Counties With the Lowest Business Establishments Opened
• Business establishments opened 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.