US states by employer establishments: mining

Texas had the highest employer establishments: mining of 50 states in 2019, at 7,748. Hawaii had the lowest, at 6. The median was 197 and the figure for the United States was 25,077. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest7,748Texas

Lowest6Hawaii

Median19750 states

United States25,077History

Map of states, 2019

Under 60
60 to 150
150 to 200
200 to 310
310 to 650
650 and over
No data

count, 2019. 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, 2019

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	2019 count	Change on 2018
1	Texas	7,748	-1.4%
2	Oklahoma	2,685	-4.3%
3	Louisiana	1,376	-2.8%
4	Colorado	1,147	-1.2%
5	Pennsylvania	982	+0.4%
6	Kansas	864	-4%
7	New Mexico	687	-0.7%
8	Wyoming	672	-0.6%
9	Ohio	655	-5.3%
10	California	652	-1.2%
11	North Dakota	536	+1.1%
12	West Virginia	517	-3%
13	Illinois	472	-3.7%
14	Utah	403	+1%
15	Kentucky	370	-0.8%
16	Montana	336	+0.6%
17	Michigan	318	-3.6%
18	Mississippi	308	+1.3%
19	Arkansas	299	-5.7%
20	Indiana	268	-2.9%
21	New York	261	-6.5%
22	Virginia	249	-5.3%
23	Missouri	248	-6.1%
24	Alabama	203	+0.5%
25	Arizona	200	-1%
26	Florida	193	-10.6%
27	North Carolina	190	+1.1%
28	Iowa	187	+2.7%
29	Tennessee	186	-1.1%
30	Nevada	183	+4.6%
31	Georgia	180	+2.9%
32	Washington	158	-4.2%
32	Wisconsin	158	-4.8%
34	Alaska	151	-4.4%
35	Minnesota	143	-5.9%
36	Oregon	127	+1.6%
37	Nebraska	118	0%
38	Idaho	110	-2.7%
39	South Carolina	89	-1.1%
40	New Jersey	65	-1.5%
41	Massachusetts	64	+4.9%
42	South Dakota	62	-6.1%
43	Maryland	58	+3.6%
44	Connecticut	56	-3.4%
45	Vermont	44	+2.3%
46	New Hampshire	36	-12.2%
47	Delaware	21	+16.7%
47	Maine	21	+31.3%
49	Rhode Island	14	0%
50	Hawaii	6	0%

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 2019 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/2019/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2021). 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, 2019) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2019/

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, 2019. U.S. Census Bureau, 22 Apr. 2021, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2019/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2019. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2021. 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, 2019. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2019/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2019.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2021) 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, 2019 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2019/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2019 (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, 2019}},
  year = {2021},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2019/},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2019. 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/2019/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Questions

Which state has the highest employer establishments: mining?

Texas, with 7,748 in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest employer establishments: mining?

Hawaii, with 6 in 2019.

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 2019 and are not ranked.