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Counties in Texas by job destruction rate

Jim Hogg County had the highest job destruction rate of 252 counties in 2014, at 54.487%. Kenedy County had the lowest, at 2.51%. The median was 11.208% and the figure for Texas was 12.06%. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

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Highest54.487Jim Hogg County
Lowest2.51Kenedy County
Median11.208252 counties
Texas12.06History

Map of counties, 2014

Anderson County: 11.164 %Andrews County: 11.642 %Angelina County: 9.507 %Aransas County: 12.315 %Archer County: 16.295 %Armstrong County: 2.545 %Atascosa County: 14.307 %Austin County: 10.721 %Bailey County: 7.188 %Bandera County: 12.977 %Bastrop County: 10.619 %Baylor County: 6.809 %Bee County: 15.861 %Bell County: 12.01 %Bexar County: 11.17 %Blanco County: 9.546 %Borden County: 7.792 %Bosque County: 14.609 %Bowie County: 8.461 %Brazoria County: 9.608 %Brazos County: 10.06 %Brewster County: 10.01 %Briscoe County: 3.717 %Brooks County: 11.461 %Brown County: 8.417 %Burleson County: 17.571 %Burnet County: 13.066 %Caldwell County: 11.072 %Calhoun County: 7.714 %Callahan County: 13.527 %Cameron County: 12.423 %Camp County: 8.098 %Carson County: 19.732 %Cass County: 8.447 %Castro County: 14.113 %Chambers County: 10.129 %Cherokee County: 13.489 %Childress County: 31.516 %Clay County: 14.518 %Cochran County: 16.926 %Coke County: 13.525 %Coleman County: 14.266 %Collin County: 13.831 %Collingsworth County: 3.822 %Colorado County: 13.344 %Comal County: 12.6 %Comanche County: 8.14 %Concho County: 8.12 %Cooke County: 10.908 %Coryell County: 12.045 %Cottle County: 14.786 %Crane County: 7.332 %Crockett County: 18.818 %Crosby County: 9.924 %Culberson County: 12.221 %Dallam County: 11.348 %Dallas County: 13.259 %Dawson County: 10.686 %Deaf Smith County: 6.955 %Delta County: 3.608 %Denton County: 11.711 %DeWitt County: 11.447 %Dickens County: 11.043 %Dimmit County: 22.486 %Donley County: 16.543 %Duval County: 10.048 %Eastland County: 10.476 %Ector County: 12.696 %Edwards County: 18.13 %Ellis County: 9.139 %El Paso County: 13.514 %Erath County: 6.948 %Falls County: 11.966 %Fannin County: 10.458 %Fayette County: 8.534 %Fisher County: 9.416 %Floyd County: 9.585 %Foard County: 11.912 %Fort Bend County: 12.515 %Franklin County: 4.144 %Freestone County: 11.403 %Frio County: 9.941 %Gaines County: 10.991 %Galveston County: 13.775 %Garza County: 4.695 %Gillespie County: 10.487 %Glasscock County: 6.719 %Goliad County: 11.243 %Gonzales County: 11.706 %Gray County: 12.417 %Grayson County: 13.614 %Gregg County: 10.347 %Grimes County: 9.878 %Guadalupe County: 8.79 %Hale County: 16.51 %Hall County: 9.612 %Hamilton County: 36.919 %Hansford County: 12.941 %Hardeman County: 14.545 %Hardin County: 13.108 %Harris County: 12.053 %Harrison County: 12.345 %Hartley County: 11.379 %Haskell County: 9.883 %Hays County: 8.221 %Hemphill County: 16.913 %Henderson County: 14.157 %Hidalgo County: 12.439 %Hill County: 12.401 %Hockley County: 15.983 %Hood County: 11.37 %Hopkins County: 11.972 %Houston County: 11.805 %Howard County: 7.604 %Hudspeth County: 4.975 %Hunt County: 8.777 %Hutchinson County: 6.415 %Irion County: 13.115 %Jack County: 16.875 %Jackson County: 5.641 %Jasper County: 7.093 %Jeff Davis County: 11.75 %Jefferson County: 11.76 %Jim Hogg County: 54.487 %Jim Wells County: 14.536 %Johnson County: 9.963 %Jones County: 12.808 %Karnes County: 8.53 %Kaufman County: 10.707 %Kendall County: 11.811 %Kenedy County: 2.51 %Kent County: 17.476 %Kerr County: 9.671 %Kimble County: 9.475 %Kinney County: 8.438 %Kleberg County: 13.979 %Knox County: 13.466 %Lamar County: 11.172 %Lamb County: 12.829 %Lampasas County: 9.73 %La Salle County: 10.303 %Lavaca County: 10.736 %Lee County: 19.024 %Leon County: 13.273 %Liberty County: 9.37 %Limestone County: 12.514 %Lipscomb County: 7.584 %Live Oak County: 20.329 %Llano County: 11.72 %Lubbock County: 10.118 %Lynn County: 7.531 %McCulloch County: 8.736 %McLennan County: 11.079 %McMullen County: 21.009 %Madison County: 7.291 %Marion County: 7.358 %Martin County: 8.354 %Mason County: 11.993 %Matagorda County: 8.685 %Maverick County: 9.683 %Medina County: 9.202 %Menard County: 14.536 %Midland County: 11.966 %Milam County: 14.287 %Mills County: 9.83 %Mitchell County: 11.833 %Montague County: 21.597 %Montgomery County: 10.572 %Moore County: 11.913 %Morris County: 14.565 %Motley County: 3.922 %Nacogdoches County: 12.074 %Navarro County: 11.441 %Newton County: 14.652 %Nolan County: 11.413 %Nueces County: 11.171 %Ochiltree County: 9.269 %Oldham County: 2.759 %Orange County: 12.882 %Palo Pinto County: 13.183 %Panola County: 16.182 %Parker County: 13.855 %Parmer County: 4.943 %Pecos County: 31.83 %Polk County: 8.877 %Potter County: 10.134 %Presidio County: 15.804 %Rains County: 10.216 %Randall County: 12.46 %Reagan County: 10.029 %Real County: 8.783 %Red River County: 10.03 %Reeves County: 12.904 %Refugio County: 6.715 %Roberts County: 8.814 %Robertson County: 7.589 %Rockwall County: 11.134 %Runnels County: 17.866 %Rusk County: 10.569 %Sabine County: 16.127 %San Augustine County: 9.856 %San Jacinto County: 14.243 %San Patricio County: 9.395 %San Saba County: 8.968 %Schleicher County: 12.175 %Scurry County: 13.299 %Shackelford County: 18.501 %Shelby County: 18.143 %Sherman County: 9.181 %Smith County: 11.403 %Somervell County: 5.943 %Starr County: 13.776 %Stephens County: 7.941 %Sterling County: 14.469 %Stonewall County: 6.58 %Sutton County: 18.845 %Swisher County: 14.208 %Tarrant County: 11.248 %Taylor County: 10.568 %Terrell County: 39.189 %Terry County: 10.858 %Throckmorton County: 6.872 %Titus County: 6.286 %Tom Green County: 10.119 %Travis County: 12.05 %Trinity County: 15.408 %Tyler County: 8.668 %Upshur County: 9.582 %Upton County: 6.32 %Uvalde County: 10.091 %Val Verde County: 11.131 %Van Zandt County: 13.257 %Victoria County: 12.3 %Walker County: 9.51 %Waller County: 11.02 %Ward County: 9.35 %Washington County: 8.388 %Webb County: 10.957 %Wharton County: 13.373 %Wheeler County: 11.939 %Wichita County: 9.873 %Wilbarger County: 9.676 %Willacy County: 7.901 %Williamson County: 14.987 %Wilson County: 13.867 %Winkler County: 12.073 %Wise County: 10.293 %Wood County: 14.073 %Yoakum County: 8.643 %Young County: 10.423 %Zapata County: 19.668 %Zavala County: 19.849 %
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%, 2014. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

Top 40 counties, 2014

Jim Hogg County: 54.487 %Jim Hogg County54.487Terrell County: 39.189 %Terrell County39.189Hamilton County: 36.919 %Hamilton County36.919Pecos County: 31.83 %Pecos County31.83Childress County: 31.516 %Childress County31.516Dimmit County: 22.486 %Dimmit County22.486Montague County: 21.597 %Montague County21.597McMullen County: 21.009 %McMullen County21.009Live Oak County: 20.329 %Live Oak County20.329Zavala County: 19.849 %Zavala County19.849Carson County: 19.732 %Carson County19.732Zapata County: 19.668 %Zapata County19.668Lee County: 19.024 %Lee County19.024Sutton County: 18.845 %Sutton County18.845Crockett County: 18.818 %Crockett County18.818Shackelford County: 18.501 %Shackelford County18.501Shelby County: 18.143 %Shelby County18.143Edwards County: 18.13 %Edwards County18.13Runnels County: 17.866 %Runnels County17.866Burleson County: 17.571 %Burleson County17.571Kent County: 17.476 %Kent County17.476Cochran County: 16.926 %Cochran County16.926Hemphill County: 16.913 %Hemphill County16.913Jack County: 16.875 %Jack County16.875Donley County: 16.543 %Donley County16.543Hale County: 16.51 %Hale County16.51Archer County: 16.295 %Archer County16.295Panola County: 16.182 %Panola County16.182Sabine County: 16.127 %Sabine County16.127Hockley County: 15.983 %Hockley County15.983Bee County: 15.861 %Bee County15.861Presidio County: 15.804 %Presidio County15.804Trinity County: 15.408 %Trinity County15.408Williamson County: 14.987 %Williamson County14.987Cottle County: 14.786 %Cottle County14.786Newton County: 14.652 %Newton County14.652Bosque County: 14.609 %Bosque County14.609Morris County: 14.565 %Morris County14.565Hardeman County: 14.545 %Hardeman County14.545Jim Wells County: 14.536 %Jim Wells County14.536Jim Hogg County: 54.487 %Jim Hogg County54.487Terrell County: 39.189 %Terrell County39.189Hamilton County: 36.919 %Hamilton County36.919Pecos County: 31.83 %Pecos County31.83Childress County: 31.516 %Childress County31.516Dimmit County: 22.486 %Dimmit County22.486Montague County: 21.597 %Montague County21.597McMullen County: 21.009 %McMullen County21.009Live Oak County: 20.329 %Live Oak County20.329Zavala County: 19.849 %Zavala County19.849Carson County: 19.732 %Carson County19.732Zapata County: 19.668 %Zapata County19.668Lee County: 19.024 %Lee County19.024Sutton County: 18.845 %Sutton County18.845Crockett County: 18.818 %Crockett County18.818Shackelford County: 18.501 %Shackelford County18.501Shelby County: 18.143 %Shelby County18.143Edwards County: 18.13 %Edwards County18.13Runnels County: 17.866 %Runnels County17.866Burleson County: 17.571 %Burleson County17.571Kent County: 17.476 %Kent County17.476Cochran County: 16.926 %Cochran County16.926Hemphill County: 16.913 %Hemphill County16.913Jack County: 16.875 %Jack County16.875Donley County: 16.543 %Donley County16.543Hale County: 16.51 %Hale County16.51Archer County: 16.295 %Archer County16.295Panola County: 16.182 %Panola County16.182Sabine County: 16.127 %Sabine County16.127Hockley County: 15.983 %Hockley County15.983Bee County: 15.861 %Bee County15.861Presidio County: 15.804 %Presidio County15.804Trinity County: 15.408 %Trinity County15.408Williamson County: 14.987 %Williamson County14.987Cottle County: 14.786 %Cottle County14.786Newton County: 14.652 %Newton County14.652Bosque County: 14.609 %Bosque County14.609Morris County: 14.565 %Morris County14.565Hardeman County: 14.545 %Hardeman County14.545Jim Wells County: 14.536 %Jim Wells County14.536
%. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

RankCounties2014 (%)Change on 2013
1Jim Hogg County54.487+45.23 pts
2Terrell County39.189+16.33 pts
3Hamilton County36.919+13.21 pts
4Pecos County31.83+17.1 pts
5Childress County31.516+21.43 pts
6Dimmit County22.486+9.15 pts
7Montague County21.597+12.58 pts
8McMullen County21.009+9.85 pts
9Live Oak County20.329+11.35 pts
10Zavala County19.849+9.12 pts
11Carson County19.732-1.87 pts
12Zapata County19.668-6.21 pts
13Lee County19.024+10.91 pts
14Sutton County18.845+6.68 pts
15Crockett County18.818-9.02 pts
16Shackelford County18.501+3.1 pts
17Shelby County18.143+1.41 pts
18Edwards County18.13-72.62 pts
19Runnels County17.866+6.48 pts
20Burleson County17.571+3.61 pts
21Kent County17.476+4.41 pts
22Cochran County16.926+1.05 pts
23Hemphill County16.913+0.21 pts
24Jack County16.875-14.23 pts
25Donley County16.543+4.07 pts
26Hale County16.51-8.62 pts
27Archer County16.295+8.4 pts
28Panola County16.182-7.18 pts
29Sabine County16.127+5.83 pts
30Hockley County15.983+4.09 pts
31Bee County15.861+4.78 pts
32Presidio County15.804-0.12 pts
33Trinity County15.408+5.1 pts
34Williamson County14.987+5.2 pts
35Cottle County14.786+3.07 pts
36Newton County14.652-1.38 pts
37Bosque County14.609+3.16 pts
38Morris County14.565+4.92 pts
39Hardeman County14.545-0.95 pts
40Jim Wells County14.536-2.12 pts
40Menard County14.536+3.03 pts
42Clay County14.518+2.04 pts
43Sterling County14.469+10.79 pts
44Atascosa County14.307+3.41 pts
45Milam County14.287+0.27 pts
46Coleman County14.266-5.05 pts
47San Jacinto County14.243-4.1 pts
48Swisher County14.208+5.41 pts
49Henderson County14.157+2.44 pts
50Castro County14.113+5.11 pts
51Wood County14.073+1.01 pts
52Kleberg County13.979+4.51 pts
53Wilson County13.867+1.4 pts
54Parker County13.855+0.14 pts
55Collin County13.831+0.65 pts
56Starr County13.776+4.64 pts
57Galveston County13.775+3.4 pts
58Grayson County13.614+2.87 pts
59Callahan County13.527+1.59 pts
60Coke County13.525-27.85 pts
61El Paso County13.514-0.74 pts
62Cherokee County13.489+4.43 pts
63Knox County13.466-3.83 pts
64Wharton County13.373-0.41 pts
65Colorado County13.344+1.06 pts
66Scurry County13.299+3.33 pts
67Leon County13.273+0.93 pts
68Dallas County13.259+0.84 pts
69Van Zandt County13.257+0.13 pts
70Palo Pinto County13.183-1.87 pts
71Irion County13.115+8.72 pts
72Hardin County13.108-0.97 pts
73Burnet County13.066+2.56 pts
74Bandera County12.977+3.15 pts
75Hansford County12.941+3.97 pts
76Reeves County12.904-7.01 pts
77Orange County12.882-0.01 pts
78Lamb County12.829+0.36 pts
79Jones County12.808-8.36 pts
80Ector County12.696+2.3 pts
81Comal County12.6+0.38 pts
82Fort Bend County12.515+2.1 pts
83Limestone County12.514+4.27 pts
84Randall County12.46-0.16 pts
85Hidalgo County12.439-0.17 pts
86Cameron County12.423-2.92 pts
87Gray County12.417-5.08 pts
88Hill County12.401+4.17 pts
89Harrison County12.345+0.2 pts
90Aransas County12.315+1.2 pts
91Victoria County12.3+1.91 pts
92Culberson County12.221-2.26 pts
93Schleicher County12.175+6.56 pts
94Nacogdoches County12.074+0.55 pts
95Winkler County12.073+4.27 pts
96Harris County12.053-0.01 pts
97Travis County12.05-0.49 pts
98Coryell County12.045+2.85 pts
99Bell County12.01+1.15 pts
100Mason County11.993+3.21 pts
101Hopkins County11.972+0.62 pts
102Falls County11.966+0.98 pts
102Midland County11.966-1.24 pts
104Wheeler County11.939+0.07 pts
105Moore County11.913+4.48 pts
106Foard County11.912+3.89 pts
107Mitchell County11.833+1.52 pts
108Kendall County11.811-0.79 pts
109Houston County11.805-0.22 pts
110Jefferson County11.76-1.89 pts
111Jeff Davis County11.75-1.57 pts
112Llano County11.72-1.04 pts
113Denton County11.711-1.86 pts
114Gonzales County11.706+2.29 pts
115Andrews County11.642-3.21 pts
116Brooks County11.461-2.04 pts
117DeWitt County11.447-1.23 pts
118Navarro County11.441+1.93 pts
119Nolan County11.413+2.11 pts
120Freestone County11.403-1.11 pts
120Smith County11.403+1.83 pts
122Hartley County11.379+2.4 pts
123Hood County11.37-3.28 pts
124Dallam County11.348-2.06 pts
125Tarrant County11.248+0.03 pts
126Goliad County11.243-10.74 pts
127Lamar County11.172-6.85 pts
128Nueces County11.171-0.16 pts
129Bexar County11.17-0.82 pts
130Anderson County11.164+0.03 pts
131Rockwall County11.134-1.6 pts
132Val Verde County11.131-1.89 pts
133McLennan County11.079+0.78 pts
134Caldwell County11.072+1.77 pts
135Dickens County11.043-4.13 pts
136Waller County11.02+2.34 pts
137Gaines County10.991-1.39 pts
138Webb County10.957-1.04 pts
139Cooke County10.908-1.37 pts
140Terry County10.858+0.32 pts
141Lavaca County10.736-1.06 pts
142Austin County10.721-4.65 pts
143Kaufman County10.707+1.3 pts
144Dawson County10.686+3.46 pts
145Bastrop County10.619-3.34 pts
146Montgomery County10.572-0.38 pts
147Rusk County10.569-0.53 pts
148Taylor County10.568-0.44 pts
149Gillespie County10.487-0.54 pts
150Eastland County10.476-4.69 pts
151Fannin County10.458-0.12 pts
152Young County10.423+1.87 pts
153Gregg County10.347-2.05 pts
154La Salle County10.303-4.9 pts
155Wise County10.293-0.47 pts
156Rains County10.216+0.16 pts
157Potter County10.134-2.17 pts
158Chambers County10.129+3.75 pts
159Tom Green County10.119+1.23 pts
160Lubbock County10.118-1.28 pts
161Uvalde County10.091-3.11 pts
162Brazos County10.06-0.05 pts
163Duval County10.048-8.64 pts
164Red River County10.03-6.31 pts
165Reagan County10.029-1.45 pts
166Brewster County10.01-13.33 pts
167Johnson County9.963-3.31 pts
168Frio County9.941-8.95 pts
169Crosby County9.924-1.52 pts
170Haskell County9.883+0.05 pts
171Grimes County9.878-1.53 pts
172Wichita County9.873-0.07 pts
173San Augustine County9.856-4.48 pts
174Mills County9.83+0.54 pts
175Lampasas County9.73-0.93 pts
176Maverick County9.683-5.87 pts
177Wilbarger County9.676+0.39 pts
178Kerr County9.671-1.4 pts
179Hall County9.612-0.06 pts
180Brazoria County9.608+0.9 pts
181Floyd County9.585+2.05 pts
182Upshur County9.582-3.01 pts
183Blanco County9.546-1 pts
184Walker County9.51-3.81 pts
185Angelina County9.507-5.01 pts
186Kimble County9.475+0.9 pts
187Fisher County9.416+5.22 pts
188San Patricio County9.395-0.07 pts
189Liberty County9.37-1.83 pts
190Ward County9.35+0.12 pts
191Ochiltree County9.269-8.16 pts
192Medina County9.202-1.37 pts
193Sherman County9.181-30.96 pts
194Ellis County9.139+0.52 pts
195San Saba County8.968-11.31 pts
196Polk County8.877-1.64 pts
197Roberts County8.814-0.41 pts
198Guadalupe County8.79-2.49 pts
199Real County8.783-18.72 pts
200Hunt County8.777-0.78 pts
201McCulloch County8.736-2.93 pts
202Matagorda County8.685-9.96 pts
203Tyler County8.668-0.39 pts
204Yoakum County8.643-12.13 pts
205Fayette County8.534-2.58 pts
206Karnes County8.53-1.23 pts
207Bowie County8.461-2.22 pts
208Cass County8.447-5.69 pts
209Kinney County8.438+2.81 pts
210Brown County8.417-1.06 pts
211Washington County8.388-1.42 pts
212Martin County8.354+1.53 pts
213Hays County8.221-0.97 pts
214Comanche County8.14-0.86 pts
215Concho County8.12+2.32 pts
216Camp County8.098-2.94 pts
217Stephens County7.941-6.3 pts
218Willacy County7.901-13.23 pts
219Borden County7.792-0.43 pts
220Calhoun County7.714-0.7 pts
221Howard County7.604-12.06 pts
222Robertson County7.589+0.02 pts
223Lipscomb County7.584-3.88 pts
224Lynn County7.531-2.23 pts
225Marion County7.358-0.4 pts
226Crane County7.332+2.01 pts
227Madison County7.291-0.23 pts
228Bailey County7.188-4.27 pts
229Jasper County7.093-4.43 pts
230Deaf Smith County6.955-1.9 pts
231Erath County6.948-4.93 pts
232Throckmorton County6.872-5.1 pts
233Baylor County6.809-8.54 pts
234Glasscock County6.719+0.92 pts
235Refugio County6.715-2.2 pts
236Stonewall County6.58+0.65 pts
237Hutchinson County6.415-4.73 pts
238Upton County6.32+2.02 pts
239Titus County6.286-4.85 pts
240Somervell County5.943-5.09 pts
241Jackson County5.641-1.45 pts
242Hudspeth County4.975-5.22 pts
243Parmer County4.943-1.01 pts
244Garza County4.695-0.37 pts
245Franklin County4.144+1.38 pts
246Motley County3.922-22.32 pts
247Collingsworth County3.822-3.72 pts
248Briscoe County3.717-15.03 pts
249Delta County3.608-1.73 pts
250Oldham County2.759-8.98 pts

Showing the top 250 of 252. The Excel download has every row.

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About this ranking

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.

A gross flow: jobs added elsewhere are not subtracted, so the net change is job_creation_rate minus this rate. Not a layoff rate: it counts positions lost at establishments, not people who lost a job. The year is the twelve months to March: 2023 compares March 2022 with March 2023.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the counties are compared on one definition. 1 counties with data in other periods have no value for 2014 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

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.

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U.S. Census Bureau. (2025). Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010 (Counties in Texas by job destruction rate, 2014) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv

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Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Counties in Texas by job destruction rate, 2014. U.S. Census Bureau, 25 Sept. 2025, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-destruction-rate/texas-counties?period=2014. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2025. Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Counties in Texas by job destruction rate, 2014. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-destruction-rate/texas-counties?period=2014.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2025) Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010, Counties in Texas by job destruction rate, 2014 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-destruction-rate/texas-counties?period=2014 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX
@misc{census_counties_in_texas_by_2014,
  author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
  title = {{Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010: Counties in Texas by job destruction rate, 2014}},
  year = {2025},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/job-destruction-rate/texas-counties?period=2014. Publisher attribution: 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.},
}
RIS
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Which county has the highest job destruction rate?

Jim Hogg County, with 54.487% in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which county has the lowest job destruction rate?

Kenedy County, with 2.51% in 2014.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: job destruction rate, all covered industries, nation and states from 1978, counties from 2010. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 counties have no value for 2014 and are not ranked.

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