# Counties in Mississippi by covered employment (QCEW), 2025

All 82 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `covered_employment`
- Unit: jobs
- Definition: Average number of 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. Counted where the job is located, from the reports employers file each quarter; monthly employment counts the jobs in the pay period that includes the 12th.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average employment, 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 employment, 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/covered-employment/mississippi-counties

| Rank | Place | jobs |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hinds County | 109,465 |
| 2 | Harrison County | 90,122 |
| 3 | DeSoto County | 73,213 |
| 4 | Rankin County | 67,431 |
| 5 | Madison County | 59,649 |
| 6 | Lee County | 52,044 |
| 7 | Jackson County | 50,095 |
| 8 | Forrest County | 38,996 |
| 9 | Lauderdale County | 30,730 |
| 10 | Jones County | 28,680 |
| 11 | Lowndes County | 26,162 |
| 12 | Lafayette County | 25,968 |
| 13 | Lamar County | 20,964 |
| 14 | Oktibbeha County | 20,613 |
| 15 | Warren County | 18,446 |
| 16 | Pike County | 14,657 |
| 17 | Washington County | 14,534 |
| 18 | Hancock County | 14,474 |
| 19 | Scott County | 13,651 |
| 20 | Alcorn County | 13,324 |
| 21 | Neshoba County | 12,735 |
| 22 | Lincoln County | 12,550 |
| 23 | Union County | 12,108 |
| 24 | Leflore County | 12,090 |
| 25 | Pearl River County | 11,726 |
| 26 | Marshall County | 11,694 |
| 27 | Pontotoc County | 11,386 |
| 28 | Panola County | 10,737 |
| 29 | Bolivar County | 10,505 |
| 30 | Adams County | 9,982 |
| 31 | Grenada County | 9,696 |
| 32 | Monroe County | 9,080 |
| 33 | Marion County | 8,361 |
| 34 | Sunflower County | 8,082 |
| 35 | Tippah County | 7,209 |
| 36 | Prentiss County | 7,156 |
| 37 | Simpson County | 7,110 |
| 38 | Tate County | 6,604 |
| 39 | Clay County | 6,482 |
| 40 | Copiah County | 6,427 |
| 41 | Tishomingo County | 6,317 |
| 42 | Yazoo County | 6,248 |
| 43 | Coahoma County | 6,085 |
| 44 | Itawamba County | 5,986 |
| 45 | Covington County | 5,570 |
| 46 | Leake County | 5,541 |
| 47 | Tunica County | 5,469 |
| 48 | George County | 5,354 |
| 49 | Winston County | 5,124 |
| 50 | Newton County | 5,081 |
| 51 | Stone County | 5,061 |
| 52 | Wayne County | 4,865 |
| 53 | Attala County | 4,585 |
| 54 | Chickasaw County | 4,330 |
| 55 | Jasper County | 3,926 |
| 56 | Claiborne County | 3,260 |
| 57 | Holmes County | 2,959 |
| 58 | Calhoun County | 2,868 |
| 59 | Clarke County | 2,828 |
| 60 | Tallahatchie County | 2,798 |
| 61 | Lawrence County | 2,712 |
| 62 | Smith County | 2,711 |
| 63 | Yalobusha County | 2,634 |
| 64 | Montgomery County | 2,424 |
| 65 | Walthall County | 2,296 |
| 66 | Choctaw County | 2,257 |
| 67 | Perry County | 2,220 |
| 68 | Jefferson Davis County | 2,202 |
| 69 | Noxubee County | 2,195 |
| 70 | Webster County | 2,108 |
| 71 | Amite County | 2,088 |
| 72 | Greene County | 1,987 |
| 72 | Humphreys County | 1,987 |
| 74 | Kemper County | 1,748 |
| 75 | Franklin County | 1,539 |
| 76 | Wilkinson County | 1,477 |
| 77 | Benton County | 1,065 |
| 78 | Carroll County | 1,025 |
| 79 | Quitman County | 977 |
| 80 | Jefferson County | 975 |
| 81 | Sharkey County | 933 |
| 82 | Issaquena County | 190 |