US Counties With the Lowest Business Closing Rates
3,144 US counties ranked by business closing rate, from lowest to highest. First are Taliaferro County, GA (0), Webster County, GA (0) and Wheeler County, GA (0). 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 lowest counties
Every state, lowest first
Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.
| Rank | State | % of establishments |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Dakota | 7.99 |
| 2 | Arkansas | 8.05 |
| 3 | Louisiana | 8.06 |
| 4 | Wisconsin | 8.1 |
| 5 | Ohio | 8.15 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 8.16 |
| 7 | Kentucky | 8.2 |
| 8 | Nebraska | 8.21 |
| 9 | Alabama | 8.23 |
| 10 | West Virginia | 8.31 |
| 11 | Kansas | 8.33 |
| 12 | South Dakota | 8.35 |
| 13 | Iowa | 8.41 |
| 14 | Indiana | 8.42 |
| 15 | Michigan | 8.43 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 8.44 |
| 17 | Connecticut | 8.47 |
| 18 | New Hampshire | 8.52 |
| 19 | Mississippi | 8.54 |
| 20 | Vermont | 8.57 |
| 21 | South Carolina | 8.58 |
| 22 | Minnesota | 8.59 |
| 23 | Maine | 8.62 |
| 24 | Tennessee | 8.72 |
| 25 | Rhode Island | 8.77 |
| 26 | Hawaii | 8.79 |
| 27 | District of Columbia | 8.86 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 8.92 |
| 29 | Virginia | 8.95 |
| 30 | North Carolina | 9.07 |
| 31 | Alaska | 9.12 |
| 32 | Maryland | 9.13 |
| 33 | Illinois | 9.13 |
| 34 | New Mexico | 9.24 |
| 35 | Texas | 9.39 |
| 36 | Missouri | 9.58 |
| 37 | New Jersey | 9.58 |
| 38 | New York | 9.69 |
| 39 | Montana | 9.71 |
| 40 | Oregon | 9.82 |
| 41 | Delaware | 9.95 |
| 42 | Georgia | 10.2 |
| 43 | Arizona | 10.3 |
| 44 | California | 10.3 |
| 45 | Wyoming | 10.3 |
| 46 | Washington | 10.3 |
| 47 | Idaho | 10.4 |
| 48 | Utah | 10.5 |
| 49 | Nevada | 10.8 |
| 50 | Florida | 10.9 |
| 51 | Colorado | 11.2 |
More on business closing rate
- US Counties With the Highest 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.