# Counties in West Virginia by establishment exit rate, 2023

All 55 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/west-virginia-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Upshur County | 12.797 |
| 2 | Wirt County | 12.727 |
| 3 | Pendleton County | 12.5 |
| 4 | Roane County | 11.856 |
| 5 | Barbour County | 11.765 |
| 6 | Mercer County | 11.544 |
| 7 | Jefferson County | 10.892 |
| 8 | Tucker County | 10.596 |
| 9 | Lewis County | 10.59 |
| 10 | Mingo County | 10.339 |
| 11 | Wyoming County | 10.338 |
| 12 | Nicholas County | 9.891 |
| 13 | Taylor County | 9.769 |
| 14 | Preston County | 9.719 |
| 15 | Kanawha County | 9.686 |
| 16 | Grant County | 9.607 |
| 17 | Monroe County | 9.524 |
| 18 | Greenbrier County | 9.4 |
| 19 | Putnam County | 9.24 |
| 20 | Doddridge County | 8.889 |
| 21 | Randolph County | 8.829 |
| 22 | Hampshire County | 8.791 |
| 23 | Mineral County | 8.413 |
| 24 | Summers County | 8.333 |
| 25 | Fayette County | 8.13 |
| 26 | Pocahontas County | 7.96 |
| 27 | Cabell County | 7.923 |
| 28 | Marshall County | 7.91 |
| 29 | Monongalia County | 7.858 |
| 30 | Calhoun County | 7.792 |
| 31 | Jackson County | 7.789 |
| 32 | Mason County | 7.654 |
| 33 | Pleasants County | 7.563 |
| 34 | Webster County | 7.477 |
| 35 | Braxton County | 7.373 |
| 36 | Berkeley County | 7.26 |
| 37 | Logan County | 7.229 |
| 38 | Marion County | 7.094 |
| 39 | Wood County | 7.058 |
| 40 | Raleigh County | 7.044 |
| 41 | Harrison County | 6.988 |
| 42 | Hancock County | 6.926 |
| 43 | Brooke County | 6.684 |
| 44 | Ohio County | 6.572 |
| 45 | Wetzel County | 6.557 |
| 46 | Gilmer County | 6.522 |
| 47 | Ritchie County | 6.509 |
| 48 | Lincoln County | 6.289 |
| 49 | Tyler County | 6.195 |
| 50 | Wayne County | 6.093 |
| 51 | Hardy County | 5.618 |
| 52 | Morgan County | 4.327 |
| 53 | Boone County | 4.11 |
| 54 | Clay County | 3.974 |
| 55 | McDowell County | 3.694 |