Data / Job creation rate / Berkeley County

Job creation rate in Berkeley County

Job creation rate in Berkeley County was 9.616% in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is down 4.02 pts from 2022. That is the 45th highest of 55 counties in 2023.

20239.616%
Change on 2022-4.02 pts
Rank45th of 55Counties in West Virginia ranked
Series high17.432016
Series low9.6162023

Next release: Sunday, 26 September 2027, estimated by Invokely from past publication dates (low confidence), not announced by the publisher. Release calendar

Get an email when a new figure is out or this one is revised.

Job creation rate in Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023

8101214161820102012201420162018202020232010: 10.768 %2011: 11.83 %2012: 13.081 %2013: 15.56 %2014: 13.548 %2015: 9.658 %2016: 17.43 %2017: 12.199 %2018: 15.261 %2019: 12.046 %2020: 13.717 %2021: 11.877 %2022: 13.638 %2023: 9.616 %
%. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved 2026-10-12, published 2025-09-25.
All 14 values
Period%
20239.616
202213.638
202111.877
202013.717
201912.046
201815.261
201712.199
201617.43
20159.658
201413.548
201315.56
201213.081
201111.83
201010.768

Compared with West Virginia and United States

Place2023
Berkeley County9.616
West Virginia12.388
United States13.592

Rankings

Definition

Jobs added at opening and expanding establishments during the year, as a percentage of average employment in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.

A gross flow: jobs lost elsewhere are not subtracted, so the net change is this rate minus job_destruction_rate. Not the same as payroll job growth from the monthly employment surveys. The year is the twelve months to March: 2023 compares March 2022 with March 2023.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Citation styles

The publisher is the author. Invokely is named only as the place the figures were read, where a style asks for it.

APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2025). Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (Job creation rate, Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv

MLA 9

Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Job creation rate, Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023. U.S. Census Bureau, 25 Sept. 2025, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/job-creation-rate/berkeley-county-west-virginia. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2025. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Job creation rate, Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/job-creation-rate/berkeley-county-west-virginia.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2025) Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Job creation rate, Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/en/job-creation-rate/berkeley-county-west-virginia (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{census_job_creation_rate_berkeley_2023,
  author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
  title = {{Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010: Job creation rate, Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023}},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/job-creation-rate/berkeley-county-west-virginia. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023\_st\_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}
RIS
TY  - DATA
AU  - U.S. Census Bureau
TI  - Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010: Job creation rate, Berkeley County, 2010 to 2023
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/09/25
PB  - U.S. Census Bureau
DB  - Invokely
UR  - https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv
L2  - https://invokely.ai/en/job-creation-rate/berkeley-county-west-virginia
Y2  - 2026/10/12
N1  - Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/en/job-creation-rate/berkeley-county-west-virginia.
N1  - Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
ER  -
Embed this chart

Paste this code into a web page or a blog post. The chart shows the latest figures as they are published, with the source and a link back to this page.

Sites that read oEmbed links, such as WordPress, can show the chart when you paste the link to this page.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

What is the latest job creation rate in Berkeley County? Cite the source.
get_value {"indicator":"job_creation_rate","place":"us-county-54003"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/value?indicator=job_creation_rate&place=us-county-54003

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

What is the job creation rate in Berkeley County?

Job creation rate in Berkeley County was 9.616% in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. That is down 4.02 pts from 2022. That is the 45th highest of 55 counties in 2023.

Where does this figure come from?

U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: job creation rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved by Invokely on 2026-10-12.

What was the highest job creation rate in Berkeley County?

17.43% in 2016, the highest value since 2010 in this series.

Related statistics for Berkeley County

All statistics for Berkeley County | Berkeley County in figures