# Counties in Alabama by establishment entry rate, 2023

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

- Indicator id: `establishment_entry_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Establishments that opened during the year (employees in March of the year and none a year earlier), as a percentage of the average number of establishments in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (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: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-entry-rate/alabama-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
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| 1 | Sumter County | 12.903 |
| 2 | Washington County | 12.429 |
| 3 | Limestone County | 11.931 |
| 4 | Blount County | 11.732 |
| 5 | Randolph County | 11.515 |
| 6 | St. Clair County | 11.08 |
| 7 | Baldwin County | 10.904 |
| 8 | Marshall County | 10.888 |
| 9 | Lee County | 10.817 |
| 10 | Clay County | 10.795 |
| 11 | Madison County | 10.758 |
| 12 | Greene County | 10.588 |
| 13 | Cherokee County | 10.213 |
| 14 | Jackson County | 9.956 |
| 15 | Cullman County | 9.868 |
| 16 | Lauderdale County | 9.867 |
| 17 | Marengo County | 9.774 |
| 18 | Perry County | 9.756 |
| 19 | Cleburne County | 9.742 |
| 20 | Shelby County | 9.737 |
| 21 | Bullock County | 9.662 |
| 22 | Jefferson County | 9.393 |
| 23 | Dale County | 9.333 |
| 24 | Geneva County | 9.325 |
| 25 | Conecuh County | 9.29 |
| 26 | Elmore County | 9.279 |
| 27 | Lamar County | 9.231 |
| 28 | Colbert County | 9.045 |
| 28 | Marion County | 9.045 |
| 30 | Montgomery County | 8.956 |
| 31 | Coffee County | 8.949 |
| 32 | Choctaw County | 8.936 |
| 33 | Bibb County | 8.874 |
| 33 | Wilcox County | 8.874 |
| 35 | Mobile County | 8.694 |
| 36 | Tallapoosa County | 8.684 |
| 37 | Autauga County | 8.679 |
| 38 | Lowndes County | 8.654 |
| 39 | Tuscaloosa County | 8.631 |
| 40 | Monroe County | 8.599 |
| 41 | Covington County | 8.521 |
| 42 | Etowah County | 8.478 |
| 43 | Henry County | 8.319 |
| 44 | Winston County | 8.29 |
| 45 | Houston County | 8.211 |
| 46 | Chilton County | 8.199 |
| 47 | Walker County | 8.117 |
| 48 | Macon County | 8.048 |
| 49 | Morgan County | 8.03 |
| 50 | Calhoun County | 7.911 |
| 51 | Butler County | 7.904 |
| 52 | Franklin County | 7.723 |
| 53 | Pike County | 7.389 |
| 54 | Lawrence County | 7.36 |
| 55 | Dallas County | 7.103 |
| 56 | Talladega County | 7.079 |
| 57 | DeKalb County | 7.059 |
| 58 | Russell County | 7.009 |
| 59 | Hale County | 6.984 |
| 60 | Clarke County | 6.933 |
| 61 | Barbour County | 6.607 |
| 62 | Coosa County | 6.186 |
| 63 | Pickens County | 6.154 |
| 64 | Escambia County | 6.082 |
| 65 | Fayette County | 6.026 |
| 66 | Chambers County | 5.893 |
| 67 | Crenshaw County | 5.486 |