US states by employer establishments: mining

Texas had the highest employer establishments: mining of 50 states in 2022, at 7,050. Hawaii had the lowest, at 9. The median was 213 and the figure for the United States was 23,180. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest7,050Texas

Lowest9Hawaii

Median21350 states

United States23,180History

Map of states, 2022

Under 70
70 to 170
170 to 210
210 to 290
290 to 600
600 and over
No data

count, 2022. 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, 2022

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	2022 count	Change on 2021
1	Texas	7,050	+0.8%
2	Oklahoma	2,232	-2.1%
3	Louisiana	1,218	-3%
4	Colorado	946	-5.4%
5	Pennsylvania	935	+2.1%
6	Kansas	807	0%
7	California	651	+2.5%
8	New Mexico	618	-0.3%
9	Ohio	609	+2%
10	Wyoming	578	-1.2%
11	North Dakota	522	+0.4%
12	West Virginia	467	+5.7%
13	Illinois	436	-2.9%
14	Utah	404	+7.7%
15	Montana	324	+1.3%
16	Michigan	321	+4.2%
17	Kentucky	291	-6.1%
18	New York	279	+6.5%
19	Arkansas	270	-0.4%
20	Mississippi	261	0%
21	Indiana	258	+0.4%
22	Missouri	253	-1.9%
23	Virginia	236	-2.1%
24	Arizona	227	+9.1%
24	Florida	227	+3.7%
26	North Carolina	198	0%
27	Alabama	197	-2.5%
27	Nevada	197	-3%
29	Iowa	185	+9.5%
30	Georgia	181	-1.1%
31	Tennessee	180	+1.7%
32	Washington	177	+9.3%
33	Minnesota	166	+3.1%
34	Alaska	165	+2.5%
35	Wisconsin	154	+11.6%
36	Oregon	131	+4.8%
37	Idaho	125	+13.6%
38	Nebraska	115	+6.5%
39	South Carolina	96	+2.1%
40	Massachusetts	83	+18.6%
41	New Jersey	76	+2.7%
42	South Dakota	68	+6.3%
43	Connecticut	65	+1.6%
44	Maryland	55	0%
45	Vermont	47	+14.6%
46	New Hampshire	30	-16.7%
47	Maine	25	+25%
48	Delaware	21	-8.7%
49	Rhode Island	13	0%
50	Hawaii	9	+50%

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 2022 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/2022/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2024). 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, 2022) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2022/

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, 2022. U.S. Census Bureau, 27 June 2024, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2022/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2022. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2024. 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, 2022. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2022/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2022.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2024) 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, 2022 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2022/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2022 (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, 2022}},
  year = {2024},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/cbp/datasets/2022/},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-establishments-mining/us-states?period=2022. 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/2022/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

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Questions

Which state has the highest employer establishments: mining?

Texas, with 7,050 in 2022, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest employer establishments: mining?

Hawaii, with 9 in 2022.

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 2022 and are not ranked.