Counties in Texas by establishment entry rate
Terrell County had the highest establishment entry rate of 245 counties in 2019, at 19.355%. Motley County had the lowest, at 0%. The median was 9.205% and the figure for Texas was 10.674%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
Map of counties, 2019
- Under 6.7
- 6.7 to 8.1
- 8.1 to 9.2
- 9.2 to 10
- 10 to 12
- 12 and over
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Top 40 counties, 2019
Full ranking
| Rank | Counties | 2019 (%) | Change on 2018 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Terrell County | 19.355 | +19.36 pts |
| 2 | Reeves County | 18.377 | -0.12 pts |
| 3 | Crane County | 17.647 | +3.81 pts |
| 4 | Kinney County | 16.667 | +1.74 pts |
| 5 | Real County | 15.854 | +8.11 pts |
| 6 | Glasscock County | 15.385 | -1.01 pts |
| 7 | Fort Bend County | 14.652 | +0.1 pts |
| 8 | Denton County | 13.984 | +0.29 pts |
| 9 | Bastrop County | 13.838 | +0.32 pts |
| 10 | Hood County | 13.815 | +0.63 pts |
| 11 | Callahan County | 13.759 | +2.05 pts |
| 12 | Collin County | 13.72 | +0.28 pts |
| 13 | Montgomery County | 13.629 | +1.35 pts |
| 14 | Andrews County | 13.469 | -0.74 pts |
| 15 | Williamson County | 13.266 | -0.33 pts |
| 16 | Kimble County | 13.23 | +5.91 pts |
| 17 | Blanco County | 13.037 | +3.8 pts |
| 18 | Parker County | 12.992 | +0.08 pts |
| 19 | Sabine County | 12.963 | -0.72 pts |
| 20 | Rockwall County | 12.948 | +0.08 pts |
| 21 | Mitchell County | 12.712 | +5.96 pts |
| 22 | Ellis County | 12.698 | +3.18 pts |
| 23 | Hays County | 12.693 | -0.56 pts |
| 24 | Freestone County | 12.684 | +1.91 pts |
| 25 | Van Zandt County | 12.679 | +3.48 pts |
| 26 | Comal County | 12.505 | -0.4 pts |
| 27 | Gaines County | 12.486 | -1.36 pts |
| 28 | Aransas County | 12.473 | +4.24 pts |
| 28 | Kaufman County | 12.473 | -0.77 pts |
| 30 | Clay County | 12.454 | +5.1 pts |
| 31 | Wise County | 12.437 | +1.4 pts |
| 32 | Bandera County | 12.394 | +4.3 pts |
| 33 | Hamilton County | 12.315 | +4.76 pts |
| 34 | Medina County | 12.299 | +2.54 pts |
| 35 | Wilson County | 12.267 | +1.4 pts |
| 36 | Travis County | 12.259 | +0.19 pts |
| 37 | Menard County | 12.195 | +4.7 pts |
| 38 | Leon County | 12.093 | -0.63 pts |
| 39 | Guadalupe County | 11.992 | +0.48 pts |
| 40 | Martin County | 11.966 | +4.07 pts |
| 41 | Goliad County | 11.921 | -0.87 pts |
| 42 | Presidio County | 11.915 | +6.76 pts |
| 43 | Midland County | 11.914 | +0.61 pts |
| 44 | Ector County | 11.788 | +1.13 pts |
| 45 | Ward County | 11.647 | -4.28 pts |
| 46 | San Jacinto County | 11.558 | +2.4 pts |
| 47 | Kendall County | 11.54 | -0.33 pts |
| 48 | Live Oak County | 11.503 | +3.65 pts |
| 49 | Johnson County | 11.488 | +0.55 pts |
| 50 | Caldwell County | 11.351 | -0.24 pts |
| 51 | Liberty County | 11.345 | +4.49 pts |
| 52 | Stonewall County | 11.236 | 0 pts |
| 53 | Mills County | 11.215 | +7.39 pts |
| 54 | Archer County | 11.2 | +1.09 pts |
| 55 | Pecos County | 11.182 | +0.71 pts |
| 56 | Bell County | 11.162 | +1.02 pts |
| 57 | Austin County | 11.147 | +0.39 pts |
| 58 | Polk County | 11.135 | +1.94 pts |
| 59 | Waller County | 11.118 | +2.42 pts |
| 60 | Winkler County | 11.079 | -3.98 pts |
| 61 | Galveston County | 11.07 | +1.55 pts |
| 62 | Carson County | 11.064 | +5.13 pts |
| 63 | Upshur County | 11.063 | +1.27 pts |
| 64 | Stephens County | 10.941 | +5.63 pts |
| 65 | Coke County | 10.909 | 0 pts |
| 66 | Tarrant County | 10.846 | +0.35 pts |
| 67 | Lampasas County | 10.842 | +0.64 pts |
| 68 | Brazoria County | 10.836 | +1.48 pts |
| 69 | Oldham County | 10.753 | -5.16 pts |
| 70 | Kerr County | 10.664 | +1.59 pts |
| 71 | Llano County | 10.654 | +1.64 pts |
| 72 | Floyd County | 10.606 | +6.8 pts |
| 73 | Fannin County | 10.549 | +1.42 pts |
| 74 | Harris County | 10.545 | +0.3 pts |
| 75 | Cochran County | 10.526 | +0.65 pts |
| 76 | Cass County | 10.458 | +3.13 pts |
| 77 | Moore County | 10.439 | +3.41 pts |
| 78 | Cherokee County | 10.419 | +0.54 pts |
| 79 | Jackson County | 10.41 | +2.16 pts |
| 80 | Harrison County | 10.4 | +2.56 pts |
| 81 | Red River County | 10.323 | +5.28 pts |
| 82 | Titus County | 10.313 | +2.67 pts |
| 83 | Hardeman County | 10.256 | +3.63 pts |
| 84 | Madison County | 10.225 | +2.82 pts |
| 85 | Burleson County | 10.181 | +3.62 pts |
| 85 | Chambers County | 10.181 | -3.43 pts |
| 85 | Frio County | 10.181 | +1.34 pts |
| 88 | Dallas County | 10.173 | +0.05 pts |
| 89 | Brazos County | 10.124 | +0.39 pts |
| 90 | Bexar County | 10.122 | +0.26 pts |
| 91 | Hill County | 10.118 | +1.1 pts |
| 92 | Walker County | 10.112 | -0.1 pts |
| 93 | Randall County | 10.108 | +1.19 pts |
| 94 | Childress County | 10.031 | -1.51 pts |
| 95 | Hidalgo County | 9.998 | -0.71 pts |
| 96 | Grayson County | 9.97 | +1.44 pts |
| 97 | El Paso County | 9.915 | -0.27 pts |
| 98 | Gillespie County | 9.854 | -1.56 pts |
| 99 | Burnet County | 9.745 | -0.56 pts |
| 100 | Culberson County | 9.709 | 0 pts |
| 101 | Milam County | 9.694 | +0.99 pts |
| 102 | Henderson County | 9.676 | -0.69 pts |
| 103 | Cooke County | 9.595 | +2.52 pts |
| 104 | Limestone County | 9.576 | +4.06 pts |
| 105 | Calhoun County | 9.573 | +3.07 pts |
| 106 | Duval County | 9.559 | -0.74 pts |
| 107 | Hunt County | 9.543 | -1.13 pts |
| 108 | Montague County | 9.535 | +1.15 pts |
| 109 | Irion County | 9.524 | -6.01 pts |
| 110 | Tyler County | 9.486 | +1.1 pts |
| 111 | Smith County | 9.467 | -0.82 pts |
| 112 | Lubbock County | 9.422 | +0.32 pts |
| 113 | Erath County | 9.421 | +0.52 pts |
| 114 | Hudspeth County | 9.375 | -3.74 pts |
| 115 | Knox County | 9.357 | -1.49 pts |
| 116 | Karnes County | 9.355 | +1.65 pts |
| 117 | Mason County | 9.339 | -1.31 pts |
| 118 | Howard County | 9.319 | +1.17 pts |
| 119 | Upton County | 9.272 | +3.9 pts |
| 120 | Hartley County | 9.259 | -0.83 pts |
| 120 | Trinity County | 9.259 | -1.4 pts |
| 122 | San Patricio County | 9.242 | -0.52 pts |
| 123 | San Augustine County | 9.205 | -0.96 pts |
| 124 | Washington County | 9.202 | -0.16 pts |
| 125 | Webb County | 9.186 | -0.71 pts |
| 126 | Franklin County | 9.18 | -2.08 pts |
| 127 | Lamb County | 9.174 | +1.48 pts |
| 128 | Armstrong County | 9.091 | -2.67 pts |
| 129 | Orange County | 9.072 | +1.2 pts |
| 130 | Hardin County | 9.049 | -0.44 pts |
| 131 | Panola County | 9.011 | +1.01 pts |
| 132 | Rains County | 8.955 | -3.39 pts |
| 133 | Coryell County | 8.92 | -2.32 pts |
| 134 | Jack County | 8.889 | -2.25 pts |
| 134 | McMullen County | 8.889 | |
| 136 | Young County | 8.881 | +1.32 pts |
| 137 | Briscoe County | 8.824 | -12.71 pts |
| 138 | McLennan County | 8.764 | -0.31 pts |
| 139 | Fayette County | 8.708 | +0.98 pts |
| 140 | Dimmit County | 8.676 | +1.86 pts |
| 141 | Taylor County | 8.659 | +0.53 pts |
| 142 | Zapata County | 8.594 | +0.16 pts |
| 143 | Nacogdoches County | 8.556 | +0.27 pts |
| 144 | McCulloch County | 8.543 | -2.99 pts |
| 145 | Newton County | 8.525 | +0.68 pts |
| 146 | Hopkins County | 8.495 | +1.63 pts |
| 147 | Lee County | 8.483 | -0.47 pts |
| 148 | Terry County | 8.471 | +1.46 pts |
| 149 | Lamar County | 8.44 | -0.37 pts |
| 150 | Robertson County | 8.434 | +0.88 pts |
| 151 | Willacy County | 8.403 | -2.71 pts |
| 152 | Baylor County | 8.333 | +2.02 pts |
| 152 | Dickens County | 8.333 | 0 pts |
| 154 | Lavaca County | 8.25 | +3.09 pts |
| 155 | Camp County | 8.247 | +3.64 pts |
| 156 | Bailey County | 8.24 | +5.31 pts |
| 157 | Matagorda County | 8.229 | +1.46 pts |
| 158 | Atascosa County | 8.228 | -2.88 pts |
| 158 | Val Verde County | 8.228 | -0.18 pts |
| 160 | Jasper County | 8.191 | +1.28 pts |
| 161 | Palo Pinto County | 8.167 | -1.89 pts |
| 162 | Dawson County | 8.155 | -1.75 pts |
| 163 | Sutton County | 8.145 | +2.86 pts |
| 164 | Wood County | 8.126 | -0.94 pts |
| 165 | Lynn County | 8.092 | +2.63 pts |
| 166 | Bee County | 8.079 | +0.91 pts |
| 167 | Rusk County | 8.061 | -0.18 pts |
| 168 | Hale County | 8.026 | +2.02 pts |
| 169 | Yoakum County | 8.023 | -3.64 pts |
| 170 | Bosque County | 8 | -0.94 pts |
| 171 | Maverick County | 7.89 | +0.11 pts |
| 172 | Nueces County | 7.878 | -1.09 pts |
| 173 | Grimes County | 7.876 | -0.6 pts |
| 174 | Cameron County | 7.859 | -1.5 pts |
| 175 | Wichita County | 7.695 | -0.07 pts |
| 176 | Potter County | 7.693 | +0.02 pts |
| 177 | Gonzales County | 7.692 | +2.93 pts |
| 178 | Jefferson County | 7.687 | +1.04 pts |
| 179 | Anderson County | 7.683 | -0.04 pts |
| 180 | Angelina County | 7.679 | +1.12 pts |
| 181 | Parmer County | 7.671 | -0.91 pts |
| 182 | Bowie County | 7.62 | +0.78 pts |
| 183 | Navarro County | 7.577 | +1.47 pts |
| 184 | Victoria County | 7.515 | -0.15 pts |
| 185 | Coleman County | 7.427 | -1.43 pts |
| 186 | Starr County | 7.422 | +0.56 pts |
| 187 | Shackelford County | 7.377 | -0.56 pts |
| 188 | Comanche County | 7.296 | +1.17 pts |
| 189 | Eastland County | 7.251 | -2.77 pts |
| 190 | Gregg County | 7.233 | +0.19 pts |
| 191 | Wharton County | 7.211 | +0.96 pts |
| 192 | Somervell County | 7.194 | -2.01 pts |
| 193 | Hockley County | 7.112 | -0.62 pts |
| 194 | Donley County | 7.092 | -2.77 pts |
| 195 | Jim Wells County | 7.031 | -0.19 pts |
| 196 | Zavala County | 7 | -2.8 pts |
| 197 | Brown County | 6.994 | +0.74 pts |
| 198 | Runnels County | 6.983 | -2.2 pts |
| 199 | Colorado County | 6.903 | -0.4 pts |
| 200 | Tom Green County | 6.881 | -0.75 pts |
| 201 | Swisher County | 6.867 | +2.72 pts |
| 202 | Kleberg County | 6.823 | -0.3 pts |
| 202 | Shelby County | 6.823 | -3.47 pts |
| 204 | Dallam County | 6.736 | -0.48 pts |
| 205 | Brooks County | 6.731 | +0.03 pts |
| 206 | Lipscomb County | 6.667 | -1.18 pts |
| 206 | Schleicher County | 6.667 | -1.84 pts |
| 206 | Uvalde County | 6.667 | -0.55 pts |
| 209 | Jones County | 6.639 | -4.98 pts |
| 210 | Houston County | 6.573 | +1.29 pts |
| 210 | Ochiltree County | 6.573 | +1.29 pts |
| 212 | Scurry County | 6.5 | -2.33 pts |
| 213 | Jim Hogg County | 6.494 | +0.13 pts |
| 214 | San Saba County | 6.475 | +1.6 pts |
| 215 | Crockett County | 6.364 | +1.03 pts |
| 216 | Reagan County | 6.349 | -9.65 pts |
| 217 | Marion County | 6.27 | -0.5 pts |
| 218 | La Salle County | 6.25 | -2.56 pts |
| 218 | Sherman County | 6.25 | -1.69 pts |
| 220 | DeWitt County | 6.024 | -1.53 pts |
| 221 | Gray County | 5.9 | -0.08 pts |
| 222 | Castro County | 5.863 | +0.7 pts |
| 223 | Wilbarger County | 5.861 | -0.91 pts |
| 224 | Hansford County | 5.839 | +1.41 pts |
| 225 | Crosby County | 5.814 | +2.41 pts |
| 226 | Delta County | 5.714 | |
| 227 | Nolan County | 5.505 | -4.21 pts |
| 228 | Brewster County | 5.283 | -4.29 pts |
| 229 | Refugio County | 5.243 | -2.88 pts |
| 230 | Wheeler County | 5.161 | +0.19 pts |
| 231 | Falls County | 4.955 | -3.55 pts |
| 232 | Hutchinson County | 4.89 | -2.24 pts |
| 233 | Morris County | 4.796 | -3.4 pts |
| 234 | Garza County | 4.724 | -1.45 pts |
| 235 | Fisher County | 4.688 | -3.19 pts |
| 235 | Hall County | 4.688 | -2.89 pts |
| 237 | Collingsworth County | 4.444 | -3.13 pts |
| 238 | Haskell County | 3.802 | -8.01 pts |
| 239 | Deaf Smith County | 3.667 | -2.31 pts |
| 240 | Hemphill County | 2.198 | -5.07 pts |
| 241 | Borden County | 0 | |
| 241 | Kenedy County | 0 | 0 pts |
| 241 | Kent County | 0 | |
| 241 | King County | 0 | |
| 241 | Motley County | 0 | -14.29 pts |
Other periods
About this ranking
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.
An establishment is a single physical location, so a new branch of an existing firm counts as an entry: this is not the rate of new firms. Not comparable with enterprise_birth_rate, which counts new enterprises in Europe. The year is the twelve months to March: 2023 compares March 2022 with March 2023.
Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 9 counties with data in other periods have no value for 2019 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.
How to cite
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.
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APA 7
U.S. Census Bureau. (2025). Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (Counties in Texas by establishment entry rate, 2019) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv
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Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Counties in Texas by establishment entry rate, 2019. U.S. Census Bureau, 25 Sept. 2025, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-entry-rate/texas-counties?period=2019. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.
Chicago (author-date)
U.S. Census Bureau. 2025. Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Counties in Texas by establishment entry rate, 2019. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-entry-rate/texas-counties?period=2019.
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U.S. Census Bureau (2025) Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Counties in Texas by establishment entry rate, 2019 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-entry-rate/texas-counties?period=2019 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).
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@misc{census_counties_in_texas_by_2019,
author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
title = {{Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010: Counties in Texas by establishment entry rate, 2019}},
year = {2025},
howpublished = {Data set},
url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv},
urldate = {2026-10-12},
note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-entry-rate/texas-counties?period=2019. Publisher attribution: 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.},
}
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Questions
Which county has the highest establishment entry rate?
Terrell County, with 19.355% in 2019, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
Which county has the lowest establishment entry rate?
Motley County, with 0% in 2019.
Where does this ranking come from?
Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: establishment entry rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 9 counties have no value for 2019 and are not ranked.
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