# Counties in West Virginia by job destruction rate, 2023

All 55 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/west-virginia-counties

| Rank | Place | % |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Summers County | 25.463 |
| 2 | Mingo County | 21.606 |
| 3 | Pendleton County | 19.631 |
| 4 | Upshur County | 16.835 |
| 5 | Logan County | 13.437 |
| 6 | Monroe County | 12.978 |
| 7 | Monongalia County | 12.835 |
| 8 | Brooke County | 12.74 |
| 9 | Hancock County | 12.52 |
| 10 | Wetzel County | 11.774 |
| 11 | Kanawha County | 11.592 |
| 12 | Jefferson County | 10.993 |
| 13 | Fayette County | 10.905 |
| 14 | Roane County | 10.904 |
| 15 | Berkeley County | 10.836 |
| 16 | Morgan County | 10.826 |
| 17 | Wirt County | 10.627 |
| 18 | Marion County | 10.502 |
| 19 | Mercer County | 10.443 |
| 20 | Putnam County | 10.415 |
| 21 | Pleasants County | 10.386 |
| 22 | Jackson County | 10.364 |
| 23 | Wyoming County | 10.31 |
| 24 | Harrison County | 10.184 |
| 25 | Ohio County | 10.101 |
| 26 | Cabell County | 10.056 |
| 27 | Greenbrier County | 10.009 |
| 28 | Lewis County | 9.927 |
| 29 | Boone County | 9.787 |
| 30 | Mineral County | 9.647 |
| 31 | Wood County | 9.627 |
| 32 | Hampshire County | 9.443 |
| 33 | Webster County | 9.325 |
| 34 | Pocahontas County | 9.164 |
| 35 | McDowell County | 8.892 |
| 36 | Preston County | 8.874 |
| 37 | Lincoln County | 8.807 |
| 38 | Mason County | 8.624 |
| 39 | Randolph County | 8.444 |
| 40 | Wayne County | 8.184 |
| 41 | Gilmer County | 8.166 |
| 42 | Tucker County | 8.087 |
| 43 | Doddridge County | 8.004 |
| 44 | Nicholas County | 7.865 |
| 45 | Barbour County | 7.854 |
| 46 | Marshall County | 7.559 |
| 47 | Raleigh County | 7.501 |
| 48 | Grant County | 7.486 |
| 49 | Braxton County | 6.948 |
| 50 | Clay County | 6.621 |
| 51 | Calhoun County | 6.443 |
| 52 | Tyler County | 6.088 |
| 53 | Ritchie County | 4.974 |
| 54 | Taylor County | 4.886 |
| 55 | Hardy County | 3.943 |