# Counties in Kansas by job destruction rate, 2023

All 105 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `job_destruction_rate`
- Unit: %
- Definition: Jobs lost at closing and shrinking establishments during the year, as a percentage of average employment in the two years. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction 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: job destruction 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/job-destruction-rate/kansas-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Linn County | 27.422 |
| 2 | Hodgeman County | 24.065 |
| 3 | Scott County | 23.585 |
| 4 | Montgomery County | 20.645 |
| 5 | Trego County | 18.386 |
| 6 | Edwards County | 18.231 |
| 7 | Meade County | 18.132 |
| 8 | Doniphan County | 17.302 |
| 9 | Anderson County | 16.434 |
| 10 | Kingman County | 15.753 |
| 11 | Rice County | 15.582 |
| 12 | Morris County | 15.346 |
| 13 | Greeley County | 15.194 |
| 14 | Lincoln County | 14.77 |
| 15 | Ellsworth County | 14.401 |
| 16 | Sheridan County | 14.016 |
| 17 | Woodson County | 13.953 |
| 18 | Rush County | 13.772 |
| 19 | Johnson County | 13.239 |
| 20 | Stafford County | 13.086 |
| 21 | Grant County | 13.006 |
| 22 | Chase County | 12.812 |
| 23 | Stevens County | 12.633 |
| 24 | Chautauqua County | 12.627 |
| 25 | Osage County | 12.616 |
| 26 | Clark County | 12.568 |
| 27 | Jackson County | 12.034 |
| 28 | Rooks County | 11.912 |
| 29 | Marshall County | 11.821 |
| 30 | Cheyenne County | 11.732 |
| 31 | Pawnee County | 11.479 |
| 32 | Miami County | 11.432 |
| 33 | Hamilton County | 11.376 |
| 34 | Sherman County | 11.33 |
| 35 | Saline County | 11.242 |
| 36 | Geary County | 11.228 |
| 37 | Jefferson County | 11.154 |
| 38 | Coffey County | 11.118 |
| 39 | Lane County | 11.074 |
| 40 | Morton County | 11.009 |
| 41 | Clay County | 10.965 |
| 42 | Russell County | 10.931 |
| 43 | Wabaunsee County | 10.92 |
| 44 | Ellis County | 10.801 |
| 45 | Norton County | 10.727 |
| 46 | Mitchell County | 10.686 |
| 47 | Pratt County | 10.628 |
| 48 | Phillips County | 10.349 |
| 49 | Sumner County | 10.294 |
| 50 | Leavenworth County | 10.289 |
| 51 | Graham County | 10.282 |
| 52 | Wilson County | 10.111 |
| 53 | Cowley County | 10.108 |
| 54 | Butler County | 10.008 |
| 55 | Shawnee County | 10.001 |
| 56 | Douglas County | 9.995 |
| 57 | Labette County | 9.847 |
| 58 | Crawford County | 9.762 |
| 59 | Sedgwick County | 9.671 |
| 60 | Elk County | 9.631 |
| 61 | Cloud County | 9.542 |
| 62 | Wyandotte County | 9.457 |
| 63 | Washington County | 9.286 |
| 64 | Wallace County | 9.274 |
| 65 | Allen County | 9.148 |
| 66 | Bourbon County | 9.054 |
| 67 | Nemaha County | 8.956 |
| 68 | Gove County | 8.952 |
| 69 | Barton County | 8.916 |
| 70 | Kiowa County | 8.904 |
| 71 | Thomas County | 8.679 |
| 72 | Harper County | 8.602 |
| 73 | Riley County | 8.548 |
| 74 | Brown County | 8.502 |
| 75 | Marion County | 8.343 |
| 76 | McPherson County | 8.341 |
| 77 | Atchison County | 8.281 |
| 78 | Decatur County | 8.182 |
| 79 | Reno County | 8.153 |
| 80 | Pottawatomie County | 8.053 |
| 81 | Greenwood County | 7.711 |
| 82 | Kearny County | 7.666 |
| 83 | Jewell County | 7.621 |
| 84 | Barber County | 7.596 |
| 85 | Finney County | 7.441 |
| 86 | Comanche County | 7.426 |
| 87 | Cherokee County | 7.271 |
| 88 | Neosho County | 7.194 |
| 89 | Ness County | 7.147 |
| 90 | Lyon County | 6.742 |
| 91 | Osborne County | 6.739 |
| 92 | Gray County | 6.689 |
| 93 | Franklin County | 6.661 |
| 94 | Harvey County | 6.646 |
| 95 | Haskell County | 6.562 |
| 96 | Dickinson County | 6.507 |
| 97 | Logan County | 6.422 |
| 98 | Republic County | 6.371 |
| 99 | Wichita County | 6.239 |
| 100 | Stanton County | 6.096 |
| 101 | Ford County | 5.914 |
| 102 | Rawlins County | 5.787 |
| 103 | Smith County | 5.731 |
| 104 | Seward County | 4.45 |
| 105 | Ottawa County | 4.372 |