US states by employer establishments: mining

Texas had the highest employer establishments: mining of 51 states in 2016, at 8,247. District of Columbia had the lowest, at 2. The median was 214 and the figure for the United States was 27,234. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest8,247Texas

Lowest2District of Columbia

Median21451 states

United States27,234History

Map of states, 2016

Under 70
70 to 170
170 to 210
210 to 340
340 to 730
730 and over

count, 2016. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2016

count. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2016 count	Change on 2015
1	Texas	8,247	-7%
2	Oklahoma	2,912	-9.1%
3	Louisiana	1,520	-7.5%
4	Colorado	1,235	-8.9%
5	Pennsylvania	1,084	-4.8%
6	Kansas	990	-7.4%
7	California	765	-8.8%
8	Wyoming	734	-9.6%
9	New Mexico	731	-6.8%
10	Ohio	721	-3%
11	West Virginia	566	-9.1%
12	North Dakota	523	-4.9%
13	Illinois	517	-5.3%
14	Kentucky	426	-12.5%
15	Utah	412	-13.3%
16	Montana	355	-10.6%
17	Arkansas	350	-12.1%
18	Michigan	333	-2.9%
19	Mississippi	328	-12.1%
20	New York	314	+0.3%
21	Virginia	295	-1.3%
22	Indiana	285	-0.7%
23	Missouri	263	-0.8%
24	Florida	236	-6%
25	Arizona	223	-5.9%
26	Alabama	214	-6.1%
27	North Carolina	204	-1.4%
27	Tennessee	204	+6.3%
29	Nevada	195	-8%
30	Iowa	190	+1.1%
31	Georgia	185	-7%
32	Washington	177	-3.3%
33	Alaska	175	-2.8%
33	Wisconsin	175	-1.1%
35	Minnesota	160	+1.9%
36	Oregon	136	-2.9%
37	Nebraska	122	-4.7%
38	Idaho	113	0%
39	New Jersey	85	+9%
40	South Carolina	82	+2.5%
41	Massachusetts	74	-1.3%
42	Connecticut	73	-5.2%
43	Maryland	72	-5.3%
43	South Dakota	72	+4.3%
45	New Hampshire	52	+6.1%
46	Vermont	46	+2.2%
47	Maine	22	+4.8%
48	Delaware	17	+13.3%
49	Rhode Island	15	-21.1%
50	Hawaii	7	-22.2%
51	District of Columbia	2	-60%

Other periods

About this ranking

Number of establishments with paid employees in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), from the U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns.

County Business Patterns: establishments (single physical locations, not firms) with paid employees during the pay period including 12 March. Excludes the self-employed and businesses without employees (nonemployer_establishments_*), government employers, crop and animal production, rail transportation, the Postal Service and private households. Establishment counts are not perturbed; the noise Census adds since 2017 applies to employment and payroll, which are not served here. Published about 18 months after the reference year.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2018). County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms (US states by employer establishments: mining, 2016) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/

MLA 9

County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms, US states by employer establishments: mining, 2016. U.S. Census Bureau, 19 Apr. 2018, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2018. County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms. US states by employer establishments: mining, 2016. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2016.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2018) County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms, US states by employer establishments: mining, 2016 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2016 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  title = {{County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms: US states by employer establishments: mining, 2016}},
  year = {2018},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2016. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2016/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Which state has the highest employer establishments: mining?

Texas, with 8,247 in 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest employer establishments: mining?

District of Columbia, with 2 in 2016.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, state and US files: establishments (EST), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms. Retrieved 2026-10-12.