# US states by establishment exit rate, 2023

All 51 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.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.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/establishment-exit-rate/us-states

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Colorado | 11.172 |
| 2 | Florida | 10.909 |
| 3 | Nevada | 10.757 |
| 4 | Utah | 10.464 |
| 5 | Idaho | 10.426 |
| 6 | Washington | 10.333 |
| 7 | Wyoming | 10.319 |
| 8 | California | 10.256 |
| 9 | Arizona | 10.25 |
| 10 | Georgia | 10.23 |
| 11 | Delaware | 9.949 |
| 12 | Oregon | 9.82 |
| 13 | Montana | 9.705 |
| 14 | New York | 9.691 |
| 15 | New Jersey | 9.58 |
| 16 | Missouri | 9.576 |
| 17 | Texas | 9.394 |
| 18 | New Mexico | 9.245 |
| 19 | Illinois | 9.135 |
| 20 | Maryland | 9.125 |
| 21 | Alaska | 9.122 |
| 22 | North Carolina | 9.073 |
| 23 | Virginia | 8.949 |
| 24 | Oklahoma | 8.918 |
| 25 | District of Columbia | 8.862 |
| 26 | Hawaii | 8.785 |
| 27 | Rhode Island | 8.774 |
| 28 | Tennessee | 8.722 |
| 29 | Maine | 8.624 |
| 30 | Minnesota | 8.592 |
| 31 | South Carolina | 8.58 |
| 32 | Vermont | 8.57 |
| 33 | Mississippi | 8.544 |
| 34 | New Hampshire | 8.522 |
| 35 | Connecticut | 8.473 |
| 36 | Massachusetts | 8.442 |
| 37 | Michigan | 8.428 |
| 38 | Indiana | 8.424 |
| 39 | Iowa | 8.413 |
| 40 | South Dakota | 8.353 |
| 41 | Kansas | 8.326 |
| 42 | West Virginia | 8.312 |
| 43 | Alabama | 8.232 |
| 44 | Nebraska | 8.214 |
| 45 | Kentucky | 8.203 |
| 46 | Pennsylvania | 8.159 |
| 47 | Ohio | 8.152 |
| 48 | Wisconsin | 8.095 |
| 49 | Louisiana | 8.056 |
| 50 | Arkansas | 8.052 |
| 51 | North Dakota | 7.986 |