# Counties in Alabama by employer firms, 2023

All 67 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employer_firms`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of firms in the private nonfarm sectors covered by the US Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics. Establishments under common ownership form one firm.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firms/alabama-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jefferson County | 12,281 |
| 2 | Madison County | 6,895 |
| 3 | Mobile County | 6,604 |
| 4 | Baldwin County | 5,000 |
| 5 | Shelby County | 4,512 |
| 6 | Montgomery County | 4,228 |
| 7 | Tuscaloosa County | 3,403 |
| 8 | Lee County | 2,673 |
| 9 | Houston County | 2,283 |
| 10 | Morgan County | 2,174 |
| 11 | Calhoun County | 1,747 |
| 12 | Lauderdale County | 1,677 |
| 13 | Marshall County | 1,616 |
| 14 | Etowah County | 1,611 |
| 15 | Cullman County | 1,578 |
| 16 | Limestone County | 1,389 |
| 17 | St. Clair County | 1,249 |
| 18 | Elmore County | 1,148 |
| 19 | Colbert County | 1,060 |
| 20 | Walker County | 1,032 |
| 21 | DeKalb County | 995 |
| 22 | Talladega County | 992 |
| 23 | Coffee County | 869 |
| 24 | Jackson County | 742 |
| 25 | Autauga County | 727 |
| 26 | Covington County | 725 |
| 27 | Chilton County | 687 |
| 28 | Russell County | 682 |
| 29 | Tallapoosa County | 680 |
| 30 | Blount County | 660 |
| 31 | Escambia County | 616 |
| 32 | Dale County | 598 |
| 33 | Dallas County | 573 |
| 34 | Pike County | 544 |
| 35 | Chambers County | 517 |
| 36 | Clarke County | 483 |
| 37 | Franklin County | 450 |
| 38 | Marion County | 437 |
| 39 | Butler County | 383 |
| 40 | Marengo County | 380 |
| 41 | Geneva County | 378 |
| 42 | Lawrence County | 367 |
| 43 | Barbour County | 351 |
| 44 | Winston County | 349 |
| 45 | Monroe County | 340 |
| 46 | Cherokee County | 319 |
| 47 | Randolph County | 308 |
| 48 | Bibb County | 269 |
| 49 | Henry County | 263 |
| 50 | Fayette County | 238 |
| 51 | Macon County | 218 |
| 52 | Choctaw County | 215 |
| 53 | Lamar County | 211 |
| 54 | Pickens County | 198 |
| 55 | Crenshaw County | 184 |
| 56 | Conecuh County | 175 |
| 57 | Clay County | 170 |
| 58 | Cleburne County | 168 |
| 59 | Washington County | 165 |
| 60 | Sumter County | 164 |
| 61 | Hale County | 145 |
| 62 | Wilcox County | 135 |
| 63 | Bullock County | 102 |
| 64 | Perry County | 100 |
| 65 | Lowndes County | 96 |
| 66 | Coosa County | 85 |
| 67 | Greene County | 82 |