# Counties in Alabama by establishment exit rate, 2023

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

- Indicator id: `establishment_exit_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Establishments that closed during the year (employees a year earlier and none in March of the year), 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 exit 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 exit 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-exit-rate/alabama-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Chambers County | 13.865 |
| 2 | Russell County | 12.015 |
| 3 | Crenshaw County | 11.97 |
| 4 | Cleburne County | 11.461 |
| 5 | Hale County | 11.429 |
| 6 | St. Clair County | 10.659 |
| 7 | Choctaw County | 10.638 |
| 8 | Coosa County | 10.309 |
| 9 | Washington County | 10.169 |
| 10 | Macon County | 10.06 |
| 11 | Clay County | 9.659 |
| 12 | Wilcox County | 9.556 |
| 13 | Blount County | 9.497 |
| 14 | Barbour County | 9.403 |
| 15 | Dale County | 9.333 |
| 16 | Shelby County | 9.222 |
| 17 | Montgomery County | 8.803 |
| 18 | Madison County | 8.724 |
| 19 | Mobile County | 8.67 |
| 20 | Geneva County | 8.589 |
| 21 | Clarke County | 8.533 |
| 22 | Morgan County | 8.51 |
| 23 | Tuscaloosa County | 8.479 |
| 24 | Jefferson County | 8.386 |
| 25 | Monroe County | 8.322 |
| 26 | Winston County | 8.29 |
| 27 | Cullman County | 8.262 |
| 28 | Conecuh County | 8.197 |
| 29 | Escambia County | 8.155 |
| 30 | Etowah County | 7.935 |
| 31 | Chilton County | 7.93 |
| 32 | Lamar County | 7.912 |
| 33 | Baldwin County | 7.908 |
| 34 | Elmore County | 7.899 |
| 35 | Limestone County | 7.844 |
| 36 | Coffee County | 7.763 |
| 37 | Franklin County | 7.723 |
| 38 | Calhoun County | 7.721 |
| 39 | Jackson County | 7.592 |
| 40 | Sumter County | 7.527 |
| 41 | Colbert County | 7.523 |
| 42 | Tallapoosa County | 7.482 |
| 43 | Lee County | 7.414 |
| 44 | Randolph County | 7.273 |
| 45 | Covington County | 7.268 |
| 46 | Butler County | 7.186 |
| 47 | Fayette County | 7.156 |
| 48 | Pike County | 7.061 |
| 49 | Houston County | 6.957 |
| 50 | Dallas County | 6.941 |
| 51 | Walker County | 6.908 |
| 52 | Marion County | 6.834 |
| 53 | Perry County | 6.829 |
| 54 | Lauderdale County | 6.79 |
| 55 | Marshall County | 6.764 |
| 56 | Bullock County | 6.763 |
| 57 | DeKalb County | 6.697 |
| 58 | Marengo County | 6.675 |
| 59 | Talladega County | 6.652 |
| 60 | Bibb County | 6.143 |
| 61 | Henry County | 5.893 |
| 62 | Greene County | 5.882 |
| 63 | Autauga County | 5.829 |
| 64 | Pickens County | 5.714 |
| 65 | Lawrence County | 5.33 |
| 66 | Lowndes County | 4.808 |
| 67 | Cherokee County | 3.688 |