# Counties in New Jersey by job destruction rate, 2023

All 21 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/new-jersey-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
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| 1 | Hunterdon County | 18.168 |
| 2 | Somerset County | 13.873 |
| 3 | Cape May County | 13.346 |
| 4 | Gloucester County | 13.089 |
| 5 | Bergen County | 11.83 |
| 6 | Middlesex County | 11.718 |
| 7 | Burlington County | 11.511 |
| 8 | Passaic County | 11.423 |
| 9 | Hudson County | 11.12 |
| 10 | Camden County | 10.794 |
| 11 | Sussex County | 10.657 |
| 12 | Monmouth County | 10.529 |
| 13 | Essex County | 10.464 |
| 14 | Union County | 10.374 |
| 15 | Mercer County | 10.293 |
| 16 | Ocean County | 10.044 |
| 17 | Morris County | 9.701 |
| 18 | Salem County | 9.544 |
| 19 | Atlantic County | 9.341 |
| 20 | Cumberland County | 8.914 |
| 21 | Warren County | 8.343 |