US states by employer establishments: mining

Texas had the highest employer establishments: mining of 50 states in 2020, at 7,300. Hawaii had the lowest, at 5. The median was 205 and the figure for the United States was 23,908. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest7,300Texas

Lowest5Hawaii

Median20550 states

United States23,908History

Map of states, 2020

Under 60
60 to 150
150 to 200
200 to 300
300 to 620
620 and over
No data

count, 2020. 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, 2020

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	2020 count	Change on 2019
1	Texas	7,300	-5.8%
2	Oklahoma	2,483	-7.5%
3	Louisiana	1,328	-3.5%
4	Colorado	1,067	-7%
5	Pennsylvania	957	-2.5%
6	Kansas	825	-4.5%
7	California	648	-0.6%
8	New Mexico	645	-6.1%
9	Ohio	621	-5.2%
9	Wyoming	621	-7.6%
11	North Dakota	528	-1.5%
12	West Virginia	482	-6.8%
13	Illinois	463	-1.9%
14	Utah	390	-3.2%
15	Kentucky	326	-11.9%
16	Montana	316	-6%
17	Michigan	306	-3.8%
18	Arkansas	277	-7.4%
19	Mississippi	275	-10.7%
20	Indiana	266	-0.7%
21	New York	260	-0.4%
22	Missouri	241	-2.8%
23	Virginia	227	-8.8%
24	Alabama	209	+3%
25	Florida	206	+6.7%
26	Arizona	203	+1.5%
27	North Carolina	191	+0.5%
28	Georgia	188	+4.4%
29	Tennessee	184	-1.1%
30	Nevada	183	0%
31	Iowa	182	-2.7%
32	Washington	163	+3.2%
33	Alaska	149	-1.3%
33	Wisconsin	149	-5.7%
35	Minnesota	146	+2.1%
36	Oregon	123	-3.1%
37	Idaho	116	+5.5%
38	Nebraska	112	-5.1%
39	South Carolina	97	+9%
40	New Jersey	73	+12.3%
41	South Dakota	64	+3.2%
42	Massachusetts	63	-1.6%
43	Connecticut	60	+7.1%
44	Maryland	53	-8.6%
45	Vermont	44	0%
46	New Hampshire	38	+5.6%
47	Delaware	23	+9.5%
48	Maine	19	-9.5%
49	Rhode Island	12	-14.3%
50	Hawaii	5	-16.7%

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 2020 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/2020/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2022). 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, 2020) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/

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, 2020. U.S. Census Bureau, 28 Apr. 2022, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2020. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2022. 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, 2020. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2020.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2022) 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, 2020 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2020 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2020/},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2020. 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/2020/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Which state has the highest employer establishments: mining?

Texas, with 7,300 in 2020, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest employer establishments: mining?

Hawaii, with 5 in 2020.

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 2020 and are not ranked.