# Counties in Mississippi by job destruction rate, 2023

All 82 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/mississippi-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
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| 1 | Calhoun County | 38.951 |
| 2 | Perry County | 23.007 |
| 3 | Greene County | 17.522 |
| 4 | Prentiss County | 17.057 |
| 5 | Carroll County | 16.283 |
| 6 | Pontotoc County | 16.281 |
| 7 | Issaquena County | 15.476 |
| 8 | Copiah County | 15.438 |
| 9 | Leflore County | 14.161 |
| 10 | Bolivar County | 14.054 |
| 11 | Tate County | 13.887 |
| 12 | Kemper County | 13.839 |
| 13 | Claiborne County | 13.743 |
| 14 | Oktibbeha County | 13.648 |
| 15 | Washington County | 13.107 |
| 16 | Tallahatchie County | 13.056 |
| 17 | Chickasaw County | 12.875 |
| 18 | DeSoto County | 12.74 |
| 19 | Marshall County | 12.66 |
| 20 | Adams County | 12.512 |
| 21 | Webster County | 12.496 |
| 22 | Coahoma County | 12.447 |
| 23 | Itawamba County | 12.393 |
| 24 | Quitman County | 12.381 |
| 25 | Jefferson County | 12.319 |
| 26 | Noxubee County | 11.887 |
| 27 | Tishomingo County | 11.75 |
| 28 | Amite County | 11.745 |
| 29 | Rankin County | 11.732 |
| 30 | Lee County | 11.635 |
| 31 | Panola County | 11.612 |
| 32 | Holmes County | 11.53 |
| 33 | Lauderdale County | 11.347 |
| 34 | Hancock County | 11.326 |
| 35 | Tippah County | 11.285 |
| 36 | Jackson County | 11.144 |
| 37 | Alcorn County | 11.06 |
| 38 | Monroe County | 10.924 |
| 39 | Lafayette County | 10.907 |
| 40 | Forrest County | 10.813 |
| 41 | Madison County | 10.779 |
| 42 | Warren County | 10.614 |
| 43 | Hinds County | 10.582 |
| 44 | Newton County | 10.342 |
| 45 | Jasper County | 10.297 |
| 46 | Smith County | 10.29 |
| 47 | Pearl River County | 10.241 |
| 48 | George County | 10.206 |
| 49 | Stone County | 9.815 |
| 50 | Sharkey County | 9.612 |
| 51 | Yalobusha County | 9.611 |
| 52 | Union County | 9.561 |
| 53 | Jefferson Davis County | 9.553 |
| 54 | Lowndes County | 9.52 |
| 55 | Choctaw County | 9.508 |
| 56 | Grenada County | 9.41 |
| 57 | Walthall County | 9.063 |
| 58 | Lamar County | 8.782 |
| 59 | Harrison County | 8.738 |
| 60 | Pike County | 8.623 |
| 61 | Attala County | 8.552 |
| 62 | Montgomery County | 8.549 |
| 63 | Clay County | 8.462 |
| 64 | Covington County | 8.27 |
| 65 | Lincoln County | 8.089 |
| 66 | Yazoo County | 8.016 |
| 67 | Clarke County | 7.807 |
| 68 | Simpson County | 7.718 |
| 69 | Lawrence County | 7.67 |
| 70 | Sunflower County | 7.473 |
| 71 | Jones County | 7.312 |
| 72 | Leake County | 7.278 |
| 73 | Franklin County | 6.771 |
| 74 | Winston County | 6.703 |
| 75 | Benton County | 6.585 |
| 76 | Wayne County | 6.342 |
| 77 | Scott County | 6.286 |
| 78 | Humphreys County | 5.994 |
| 79 | Tunica County | 5.903 |
| 80 | Neshoba County | 5.826 |
| 81 | Marion County | 5.245 |
| 82 | Wilkinson County | 5.027 |