# Counties in Mississippi by employer firms, 2023

All 82 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/mississippi-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Hinds County | 3,896 |
| 2 | Harrison County | 3,341 |
| 3 | Rankin County | 3,103 |
| 4 | Madison County | 2,731 |
| 5 | DeSoto County | 2,590 |
| 6 | Lee County | 2,043 |
| 7 | Jackson County | 1,827 |
| 8 | Lauderdale County | 1,422 |
| 9 | Forrest County | 1,388 |
| 10 | Lamar County | 1,269 |
| 11 | Lafayette County | 1,219 |
| 12 | Lowndes County | 1,212 |
| 13 | Jones County | 1,090 |
| 14 | Washington County | 847 |
| 15 | Oktibbeha County | 823 |
| 16 | Warren County | 776 |
| 17 | Pike County | 750 |
| 18 | Lincoln County | 729 |
| 19 | Hancock County | 704 |
| 20 | Pearl River County | 702 |
| 21 | Alcorn County | 667 |
| 22 | Adams County | 608 |
| 23 | Bolivar County | 607 |
| 24 | Leflore County | 559 |
| 25 | Monroe County | 518 |
| 26 | Marion County | 505 |
| 27 | Panola County | 496 |
| 28 | Pontotoc County | 473 |
| 28 | Union County | 473 |
| 30 | Grenada County | 461 |
| 31 | Neshoba County | 456 |
| 32 | Prentiss County | 433 |
| 33 | Coahoma County | 430 |
| 34 | Scott County | 417 |
| 35 | Copiah County | 387 |
| 36 | Simpson County | 377 |
| 37 | Marshall County | 366 |
| 38 | Tishomingo County | 353 |
| 39 | Itawamba County | 340 |
| 40 | Tate County | 337 |
| 41 | Sunflower County | 333 |
| 41 | Tippah County | 333 |
| 43 | Winston County | 318 |
| 44 | Wayne County | 305 |
| 45 | Clay County | 301 |
| 45 | Yazoo County | 301 |
| 47 | Attala County | 297 |
| 48 | George County | 289 |
| 49 | Leake County | 284 |
| 50 | Chickasaw County | 279 |
| 50 | Covington County | 279 |
| 52 | Newton County | 275 |
| 53 | Stone County | 261 |
| 54 | Calhoun County | 202 |
| 55 | Clarke County | 197 |
| 56 | Walthall County | 180 |
| 57 | Jasper County | 176 |
| 58 | Montgomery County | 169 |
| 59 | Amite County | 168 |
| 60 | Holmes County | 166 |
| 61 | Lawrence County | 163 |
| 62 | Tunica County | 160 |
| 63 | Noxubee County | 156 |
| 64 | Webster County | 147 |
| 65 | Tallahatchie County | 145 |
| 66 | Yalobusha County | 142 |
| 67 | Smith County | 121 |
| 68 | Choctaw County | 115 |
| 69 | Humphreys County | 113 |
| 70 | Wilkinson County | 110 |
| 71 | Greene County | 108 |
| 72 | Jefferson Davis County | 107 |
| 73 | Franklin County | 103 |
| 74 | Perry County | 102 |
| 75 | Carroll County | 95 |
| 76 | Claiborne County | 84 |
| 77 | Kemper County | 82 |
| 78 | Sharkey County | 81 |
| 79 | Quitman County | 70 |
| 80 | Benton County | 66 |
| 81 | Jefferson County | 45 |
| 82 | Issaquena County | 18 |