US states by employer establishments: mining

Texas had the highest employer establishments: mining of 50 states in 2017, at 7,812. Hawaii had the lowest, at 5. The median was 206 and the figure for the United States was 25,732. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest7,812Texas

Lowest5Hawaii

Median20650 states

United States25,732History

Map of states, 2017

Under 70
70 to 160
160 to 210
210 to 320
320 to 680
680 and over
No data

count, 2017. Hatched areas have no value for this period. 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, 2017

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	2017 count	Change on 2016
1	Texas	7,812	-5.3%
2	Oklahoma	2,766	-5%
3	Louisiana	1,439	-5.3%
4	Colorado	1,150	-6.9%
5	Pennsylvania	1,002	-7.6%
6	Kansas	920	-7.1%
7	New Mexico	718	-1.8%
8	Ohio	692	-4%
9	Wyoming	686	-6.5%
10	California	675	-11.8%
11	West Virginia	547	-3.4%
12	North Dakota	521	-0.4%
13	Illinois	501	-3.1%
14	Utah	402	-2.4%
15	Kentucky	389	-8.7%
16	Montana	324	-8.7%
17	Arkansas	323	-7.7%
18	Michigan	319	-4.2%
19	Mississippi	307	-6.4%
20	New York	291	-7.3%
21	Indiana	278	-2.5%
22	Missouri	275	+4.6%
23	Virginia	262	-11.2%
24	Florida	213	-9.7%
25	Alabama	207	-3.3%
26	Arizona	205	-8.1%
27	Tennessee	199	-2.5%
28	North Carolina	193	-5.4%
29	Iowa	188	-1.1%
30	Nevada	184	-5.6%
31	Georgia	181	-2.2%
32	Washington	176	-0.6%
33	Wisconsin	165	-5.7%
34	Minnesota	153	-4.4%
35	Alaska	149	-14.9%
36	Oregon	125	-8.1%
37	Idaho	114	+0.9%
38	Nebraska	111	-9%
39	South Carolina	88	+7.3%
40	New Jersey	71	-16.5%
41	Massachusetts	70	-5.4%
42	South Dakota	69	-4.2%
43	Connecticut	64	-12.3%
44	Maryland	57	-20.8%
45	Vermont	48	+4.3%
46	New Hampshire	47	-9.6%
47	Maine	18	-18.2%
48	Delaware	17	0%
49	Rhode Island	14	-6.7%
50	Hawaii	5	-28.6%

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. 1 states with data in other periods have no value for 2017 and are left out rather than filled from another source. 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/2017/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2019). 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, 2017) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2017/

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, 2017. U.S. Census Bureau, 26 Nov. 2019, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2017/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2017. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2019. 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, 2017. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2017/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2017.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2019) 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, 2017 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2017/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2017 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  year = {2019},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2017/},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2017. 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/2017/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Questions

Which state has the highest employer establishments: mining?

Texas, with 7,812 in 2017, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest employer establishments: mining?

Hawaii, with 5 in 2017.

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. 1 states have no value for 2017 and are not ranked.