# Counties in Alabama by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 67 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `establishments_qcew`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Average number of establishments with jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. An establishment is a single place of business, such as a factory, store or office; a company with several locations has several.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-establishments/alabama-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jefferson County | 23,648 |
| 2 | Madison County | 14,624 |
| 3 | Mobile County | 12,498 |
| 4 | Baldwin County | 9,357 |
| 5 | Shelby County | 7,650 |
| 6 | Montgomery County | 7,453 |
| 7 | Tuscaloosa County | 5,557 |
| 8 | Lee County | 4,623 |
| 9 | Houston County | 3,844 |
| 10 | Morgan County | 3,399 |
| 11 | Calhoun County | 2,912 |
| 12 | Marshall County | 2,686 |
| 13 | Lauderdale County | 2,678 |
| 14 | Etowah County | 2,541 |
| 15 | Cullman County | 2,380 |
| 16 | Limestone County | 2,262 |
| 17 | St. Clair County | 2,112 |
| 18 | Elmore County | 1,891 |
| 19 | Colbert County | 1,704 |
| 20 | Talladega County | 1,628 |
| 21 | DeKalb County | 1,566 |
| 22 | Walker County | 1,562 |
| 23 | Coffee County | 1,436 |
| 24 | Russell County | 1,247 |
| 25 | Jackson County | 1,238 |
| 26 | Autauga County | 1,190 |
| 27 | Covington County | 1,166 |
| 28 | Dale County | 1,148 |
| 29 | Tallapoosa County | 1,080 |
| 30 | Blount County | 1,006 |
| 31 | Dallas County | 998 |
| 32 | Escambia County | 953 |
| 33 | Chilton County | 948 |
| 34 | Chambers County | 823 |
| 35 | Pike County | 818 |
| 36 | Marion County | 741 |
| 37 | Clarke County | 730 |
| 38 | Franklin County | 701 |
| 39 | Geneva County | 616 |
| 40 | Barbour County | 597 |
| 41 | Marengo County | 590 |
| 42 | Lawrence County | 588 |
| 43 | Winston County | 570 |
| 44 | Butler County | 527 |
| 45 | Cherokee County | 525 |
| 46 | Monroe County | 492 |
| 47 | Randolph County | 489 |
| 48 | Bibb County | 468 |
| 49 | Henry County | 430 |
| 50 | Pickens County | 378 |
| 51 | Choctaw County | 362 |
| 52 | Fayette County | 357 |
| 53 | Hale County | 348 |
| 54 | Wilcox County | 345 |
| 55 | Washington County | 326 |
| 56 | Macon County | 321 |
| 57 | Crenshaw County | 306 |
| 58 | Sumter County | 299 |
| 59 | Lamar County | 295 |
| 60 | Cleburne County | 294 |
| 61 | Conecuh County | 293 |
| 62 | Clay County | 261 |
| 63 | Lowndes County | 216 |
| 64 | Bullock County | 214 |
| 65 | Perry County | 193 |
| 66 | Greene County | 169 |
| 67 | Coosa County | 166 |