# Counties in Iowa by establishment entry rate, 2023

All 99 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/iowa-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Warren County | 13.868 |
| 2 | Mills County | 13.311 |
| 3 | Davis County | 13.043 |
| 4 | Benton County | 12.076 |
| 5 | Guthrie County | 11.928 |
| 6 | Dallas County | 11.596 |
| 7 | Monona County | 11.386 |
| 8 | Appanoose County | 11.335 |
| 9 | Fremont County | 11.148 |
| 10 | Wayne County | 11.067 |
| 11 | Madison County | 11.022 |
| 12 | Keokuk County | 10.742 |
| 13 | Polk County | 10.443 |
| 14 | Henry County | 10.441 |
| 15 | Ringgold County | 10.233 |
| 16 | Boone County | 10.148 |
| 17 | Grundy County | 10.037 |
| 18 | Van Buren County | 9.962 |
| 19 | Delaware County | 9.958 |
| 20 | Wapello County | 9.786 |
| 21 | Johnson County | 9.658 |
| 22 | Clayton County | 9.545 |
| 23 | Audubon County | 9.302 |
| 24 | Muscatine County | 9.195 |
| 25 | Harrison County | 9.105 |
| 26 | Story County | 9.004 |
| 27 | Iowa County | 8.862 |
| 28 | Scott County | 8.859 |
| 29 | Cedar County | 8.768 |
| 30 | Howard County | 8.696 |
| 30 | Winnebago County | 8.696 |
| 32 | Linn County | 8.594 |
| 33 | Calhoun County | 8.511 |
| 34 | Lucas County | 8.499 |
| 35 | Decatur County | 8.481 |
| 36 | Jasper County | 8.436 |
| 37 | Lee County | 8.402 |
| 38 | Dickinson County | 8.389 |
| 39 | Buchanan County | 8.381 |
| 40 | Pottawattamie County | 8.31 |
| 41 | Marion County | 8.301 |
| 42 | Adams County | 8.29 |
| 43 | Webster County | 8.259 |
| 44 | Marshall County | 8.191 |
| 45 | Plymouth County | 8.163 |
| 46 | Des Moines County | 8.087 |
| 47 | Clarke County | 8.046 |
| 48 | Lyon County | 8.023 |
| 49 | Jones County | 7.991 |
| 50 | Cerro Gordo County | 7.929 |
| 51 | Dubuque County | 7.852 |
| 52 | Greene County | 7.826 |
| 53 | Franklin County | 7.706 |
| 54 | Clinton County | 7.568 |
| 55 | Humboldt County | 7.5 |
| 56 | Mahaska County | 7.354 |
| 57 | Osceola County | 7.303 |
| 58 | Poweshiek County | 7.262 |
| 59 | Winneshiek County | 7.227 |
| 60 | Louisa County | 7.222 |
| 61 | Mitchell County | 7.105 |
| 62 | Woodbury County | 7.068 |
| 63 | Butler County | 6.957 |
| 64 | Buena Vista County | 6.926 |
| 65 | Black Hawk County | 6.899 |
| 66 | Hamilton County | 6.845 |
| 67 | Union County | 6.81 |
| 68 | Jefferson County | 6.799 |
| 69 | Fayette County | 6.772 |
| 70 | Palo Alto County | 6.733 |
| 71 | Pocahontas County | 6.648 |
| 72 | Allamakee County | 6.462 |
| 73 | Bremer County | 6.34 |
| 74 | Sioux County | 6.289 |
| 75 | Hancock County | 6.239 |
| 76 | Kossuth County | 6.17 |
| 77 | Crawford County | 6.15 |
| 78 | Clay County | 6.122 |
| 79 | Carroll County | 5.982 |
| 80 | Washington County | 5.896 |
| 81 | Tama County | 5.859 |
| 82 | Emmet County | 5.803 |
| 83 | Page County | 5.663 |
| 84 | Cherokee County | 5.59 |
| 85 | Cass County | 5.562 |
| 86 | Taylor County | 5.49 |
| 87 | Shelby County | 5.472 |
| 88 | Monroe County | 5.455 |
| 89 | Chickasaw County | 5.397 |
| 90 | Ida County | 5.252 |
| 91 | Wright County | 5.191 |
| 92 | Worth County | 5.161 |
| 93 | Jackson County | 5.096 |
| 94 | Adair County | 5.046 |
| 95 | O'Brien County | 4.941 |
| 96 | Sac County | 4.828 |
| 97 | Montgomery County | 4.824 |
| 98 | Hardin County | 4.788 |
| 99 | Floyd County | 3.424 |