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

All 82 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/mississippi-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hinds County | 5,706 |
| 2 | Harrison County | 5,211 |
| 3 | Rankin County | 4,704 |
| 4 | Madison County | 4,076 |
| 5 | DeSoto County | 3,900 |
| 6 | Jackson County | 2,827 |
| 7 | Lee County | 2,698 |
| 8 | Forrest County | 2,046 |
| 9 | Lauderdale County | 1,870 |
| 10 | Lamar County | 1,606 |
| 11 | Lafayette County | 1,588 |
| 12 | Lowndes County | 1,549 |
| 13 | Jones County | 1,442 |
| 14 | Washington County | 1,186 |
| 15 | Oktibbeha County | 1,092 |
| 16 | Hancock County | 1,089 |
| 17 | Warren County | 1,078 |
| 18 | Pearl River County | 1,041 |
| 19 | Pike County | 1,031 |
| 20 | Lincoln County | 852 |
| 21 | Bolivar County | 841 |
| 22 | Alcorn County | 824 |
| 23 | Leflore County | 807 |
| 24 | Adams County | 770 |
| 25 | Panola County | 673 |
| 26 | Monroe County | 662 |
| 27 | Marion County | 601 |
| 28 | Union County | 598 |
| 29 | Grenada County | 596 |
| 30 | Marshall County | 588 |
| 31 | Neshoba County | 586 |
| 32 | Coahoma County | 581 |
| 33 | Pontotoc County | 564 |
| 34 | Prentiss County | 554 |
| 35 | Sunflower County | 538 |
| 36 | Scott County | 530 |
| 37 | Simpson County | 513 |
| 38 | Tishomingo County | 486 |
| 39 | Copiah County | 483 |
| 40 | Tate County | 458 |
| 41 | Yazoo County | 452 |
| 42 | George County | 416 |
| 43 | Attala County | 413 |
| 44 | Itawamba County | 404 |
| 45 | Clay County | 402 |
| 46 | Tippah County | 393 |
| 47 | Covington County | 390 |
| 48 | Wayne County | 386 |
| 49 | Newton County | 375 |
| 50 | Winston County | 368 |
| 51 | Chickasaw County | 367 |
| 52 | Leake County | 352 |
| 53 | Stone County | 338 |
| 54 | Holmes County | 288 |
| 55 | Tunica County | 269 |
| 56 | Calhoun County | 268 |
| 57 | Clarke County | 250 |
| 58 | Jasper County | 242 |
| 59 | Noxubee County | 235 |
| 60 | Montgomery County | 232 |
| 61 | Walthall County | 220 |
| 62 | Tallahatchie County | 219 |
| 63 | Lawrence County | 209 |
| 64 | Amite County | 208 |
| 65 | Yalobusha County | 206 |
| 66 | Webster County | 205 |
| 67 | Smith County | 197 |
| 68 | Humphreys County | 180 |
| 69 | Perry County | 178 |
| 70 | Greene County | 157 |
| 71 | Jefferson Davis County | 155 |
| 72 | Choctaw County | 153 |
| 73 | Quitman County | 145 |
| 74 | Sharkey County | 138 |
| 75 | Claiborne County | 134 |
| 75 | Franklin County | 134 |
| 77 | Kemper County | 132 |
| 78 | Carroll County | 130 |
| 79 | Wilkinson County | 122 |
| 80 | Benton County | 94 |
| 81 | Jefferson County | 75 |
| 82 | Issaquena County | 38 |