US Counties With the Lowest Business Establishments Closed

3,142 US counties ranked by business establishments closed, from lowest to highest. First are Taliaferro County, GA (0.00), Webster County, GA (0.00) and Wheeler County, GA (0.00). The middle one of the 3,142 has 1.67.

What this measures

Business locations that had employees a year earlier and none in March: closings, including a business moving a location out of the place. 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 lowest counties

Rank	County	Per 1,000 residents
1	Taliaferro County, GA	0.00
2	Webster County, GA	0.00
3	Wheeler County, GA	0.00
4	Kalawao County, HI	0.00
5	Clark County, ID	0.00
6	Chase County, KS	0.00
7	Hodgeman County, KS	0.00
8	Owsley County, KY	0.00
9	Robertson County, KY	0.00
10	Tensas Parish, LA	0.00
11	Traverse County, MN	0.00
12	Franklin County, MS	0.00
13	Issaquena County, MS	0.00
14	Carter County, MT	0.00
15	Daniels County, MT	0.00
16	Garfield County, MT	0.00
17	Golden Valley County, MT	0.00
18	McCone County, MT	0.00
19	Petroleum County, MT	0.00
20	Treasure County, MT	0.00
21	Wibaux County, MT	0.00
22	Arthur County, NE	0.00
23	Banner County, NE	0.00
24	Blaine County, NE	0.00
25	Grant County, NE	0.00
26	Keya Paha County, NE	0.00
27	Logan County, NE	0.00
28	McPherson County, NE	0.00
29	Rock County, NE	0.00
30	Sioux County, NE	0.00
31	Wheeler County, NE	0.00
32	Esmeralda County, NV	0.00
33	Harding County, NM	0.00
34	Oliver County, ND	0.00
35	Sioux County, ND	0.00
36	Slope County, ND	0.00
37	Wheeler County, OR	0.00
38	Bennett County, SD	0.00
39	Buffalo County, SD	0.00
40	Hyde County, SD	0.00
41	Jackson County, SD	0.00
42	Jones County, SD	0.00
43	Ziebach County, SD	0.00
44	Briscoe County, TX	0.00
45	Collingsworth County, TX	0.00
46	Concho County, TX	0.00
47	Dickens County, TX	0.00
48	Kent County, TX	0.00
49	King County, TX	0.00
50	Stonewall County, TX	0.00
51	Terrell County, TX	0.00
52	Menominee County, WI	0.00
53	Kusilvak Census Area, AK	0.00
54	Yakutat City and Borough, AK	0.00
55	Sedgwick County, CO	0.00
56	North Slope Borough, AK	0.28
57	Lanier County, GA	0.30
58	Zapata County, TX	0.36
59	Atkinson County, GA	0.36
60	Clay County, WV	0.38
61	McDowell County, WV	0.38
62	Decatur County, IA	0.39
63	Elliott County, KY	0.41
64	Starr County, TX	0.41
65	Boone County, WV	0.42
66	Hancock County, KY	0.44
67	Union County, FL	0.45
68	Wilcox County, GA	0.46
69	Dixie County, FL	0.47
70	Wilkinson County, MS	0.48
71	Menifee County, KY	0.48
72	Leslie County, KY	0.49
73	Lincoln County, WV	0.50
74	Lowndes County, AL	0.50
75	Cherokee County, AL	0.52
76	McCormick County, SC	0.52
77	Morgan County, WV	0.52
78	Magoffin County, KY	0.52
79	Crowley County, CO	0.52
80	Northwest Arctic Borough, AK	0.53
81	Fleming County, KY	0.53
82	Greenlee County, AZ	0.53
83	Jackson County, KY	0.54
84	Bethel Census Area, AK	0.54
85	Calhoun County, GA	0.54
86	Chattahoochee County, GA	0.54
87	Cotton County, OK	0.55
88	Jefferson County, OK	0.56
89	Butler County, KY	0.57
90	Morgan County, TN	0.57
91	Long County, GA	0.57
92	Montgomery County, AR	0.58
93	Jackson County, TN	0.59
94	McCreary County, KY	0.59
95	Lawrence County, IL	0.59
96	Clay County, KY	0.60
97	Lake County, TN	0.60
98	Moore County, TN	0.61
99	Meigs County, TN	0.61
100	Powell County, KY	0.61

Every state, lowest first

Each state’s own published figure, not an average of its counties.

Rank	State	Per 1,000 residents
1	West Virginia	1.55
2	Kentucky	1.57
3	Alabama	1.59
4	Ohio	1.62
5	Mississippi	1.62
6	Arkansas	1.70
7	Tennessee	1.71
8	Michigan	1.72
9	Louisiana	1.74
10	Indiana	1.75
11	Pennsylvania	1.78
12	New Mexico	1.78
13	Wisconsin	1.81
14	South Carolina	1.81
15	Hawaii	1.82
16	Texas	1.90
17	Maryland	1.91
18	Connecticut	1.92
19	Oklahoma	1.95
20	Virginia	1.97
21	Kansas	1.98
22	North Carolina	1.98
23	Arizona	1.99
24	Iowa	1.99
25	Massachusetts	2.00
26	Minnesota	2.05
27	Illinois	2.06
28	Rhode Island	2.13
29	Nebraska	2.13
30	Missouri	2.14
31	Georgia	2.18
32	New Jersey	2.20
33	New Hampshire	2.20
34	Nevada	2.31
35	Alaska	2.33
36	North Dakota	2.33
37	New York	2.34
38	California	2.35
39	Washington	2.38
40	Maine	2.39
41	South Dakota	2.41
42	Vermont	2.49
43	Delaware	2.49
44	Utah	2.55
45	Oregon	2.57
46	Idaho	2.75
47	Florida	2.78
48	District of Columbia	2.91
49	Colorado	3.05
50	Montana	3.19
51	Wyoming	3.59

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