# Counties in Mississippi by establishment exit rate, 2023

All 81 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable. 1 counties have no value for that period and are not ranked.

- 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/mississippi-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Jasper County | 16.216 |
| 2 | Greene County | 14.407 |
| 3 | Noxubee County | 14.371 |
| 4 | Carroll County | 13.131 |
| 5 | Claiborne County | 13.115 |
| 6 | Kemper County | 12.644 |
| 7 | George County | 12.219 |
| 8 | Calhoun County | 11.765 |
| 9 | Scott County | 11.543 |
| 10 | Perry County | 11.475 |
| 11 | Leake County | 11.409 |
| 12 | Panola County | 11.001 |
| 13 | Tate County | 10.87 |
| 14 | Yalobusha County | 10.596 |
| 15 | Pike County | 10.13 |
| 16 | Smith County | 10.117 |
| 17 | Covington County | 9.677 |
| 18 | Monroe County | 9.6 |
| 19 | Quitman County | 9.524 |
| 20 | Hinds County | 9.492 |
| 21 | Wayne County | 9.453 |
| 22 | Attala County | 9.449 |
| 23 | Hancock County | 9.407 |
| 24 | Copiah County | 9.375 |
| 25 | Jones County | 9.347 |
| 26 | Jefferson County | 9.346 |
| 27 | Coahoma County | 9.283 |
| 28 | Grenada County | 9.182 |
| 29 | Pearl River County | 9.173 |
| 30 | Walthall County | 9.14 |
| 31 | Holmes County | 9.068 |
| 32 | Adams County | 9.024 |
| 33 | Oktibbeha County | 9.019 |
| 34 | Madison County | 8.972 |
| 35 | Itawamba County | 8.864 |
| 36 | Warren County | 8.839 |
| 37 | Jackson County | 8.698 |
| 38 | Rankin County | 8.569 |
| 39 | Marshall County | 8.564 |
| 40 | Leflore County | 8.535 |
| 41 | Humphreys County | 8.439 |
| 42 | Prentiss County | 8.414 |
| 43 | Harrison County | 8.391 |
| 44 | Washington County | 8.35 |
| 45 | Newton County | 8.347 |
| 46 | Yazoo County | 8.346 |
| 47 | Lauderdale County | 8.275 |
| 48 | Clarke County | 8.173 |
| 49 | Benton County | 8.054 |
| 50 | Sunflower County | 8 |
| 51 | Lafayette County | 7.979 |
| 52 | Clay County | 7.899 |
| 53 | Sharkey County | 7.778 |
| 54 | DeSoto County | 7.764 |
| 55 | Bolivar County | 7.745 |
| 56 | Alcorn County | 7.719 |
| 57 | Union County | 7.715 |
| 58 | Pontotoc County | 7.7 |
| 59 | Lee County | 7.642 |
| 60 | Jefferson Davis County | 7.627 |
| 61 | Montgomery County | 7.609 |
| 62 | Neshoba County | 7.566 |
| 63 | Choctaw County | 7.563 |
| 64 | Lamar County | 7.512 |
| 65 | Winston County | 7.485 |
| 66 | Lowndes County | 7.38 |
| 67 | Lawrence County | 7.295 |
| 68 | Forrest County | 7.27 |
| 69 | Simpson County | 6.863 |
| 70 | Tishomingo County | 6.766 |
| 71 | Lincoln County | 6.662 |
| 72 | Tallahatchie County | 6.557 |
| 73 | Tunica County | 6.49 |
| 74 | Stone County | 6.182 |
| 75 | Marion County | 6.18 |
| 76 | Amite County | 5.797 |
| 77 | Chickasaw County | 5.676 |
| 78 | Tippah County | 5.61 |
| 79 | Webster County | 5.405 |
| 80 | Wilkinson County | 3.571 |
| 81 | Issaquena County | 0 |