US states by nonemployer business receipts: mining

Texas had the highest nonemployer business receipts: mining of 50 states in 2016, at $1.96 billion. Delaware had the lowest, at $655,000. The median was $19.78 million and the figure for the United States was $4.92 billion. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest1,959.1Texas

Lowest0.7Delaware

Median19.850 states

United States4,921.3History

Map of states, 2016

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USD million, 2016. Hatched areas have no value for this period. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2016

USD million. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2016 USD million	Change on 2015
1	Texas	1,959.1	-22.5%
2	Oklahoma	699.3	-18.1%
3	Louisiana	286.3	-22.5%
4	Kansas	266.3	-16.3%
5	Colorado	214.6	-12.6%
6	Pennsylvania	150.2	-18%
7	California	129.8	-11.1%
8	Ohio	105.6	-24.3%
9	Mississippi	99	-10.5%
10	New Mexico	79.6	-18.7%
11	Wyoming	75.1	-25.7%
12	Kentucky	73.2	-11.6%
13	Illinois	72.5	-18.8%
14	West Virginia	71.2	-27%
15	Michigan	67.3	-21%
16	Arkansas	60.6	-23.2%
17	North Dakota	57.2	-20.2%
18	New York	47.3	-1.4%
19	Montana	44.9	-17.4%
20	Florida	44.5	-10%
21	Utah	25.1	-22.8%
22	Indiana	24.8	-26%
23	Alabama	23.7	-16.7%
24	Nevada	21.5	-9.2%
25	Arizona	21.4	-3.2%
26	Alaska	18.2	-13.6%
27	Tennessee	18.2	-25.8%
28	Washington	14.6	-26.6%
29	Oregon	13.5	+19.5%
30	Missouri	12.1	-2%
31	Virginia	11.8	+7.2%
32	Nebraska	11.2	-8.7%
33	Minnesota	11.2	+8.4%
34	Wisconsin	10.6	-29.2%
35	Georgia	10	-6.4%
36	Idaho	9.1	-1.7%
37	North Carolina	7.9	-9.2%
38	Massachusetts	7.4	+45.2%
39	Maryland	6.8	+6.6%
40	South Dakota	6.5	+10.7%
41	South Carolina	6.1	+7.9%
42	Maine	5.7	+4.7%
43	Vermont	4.9	+17.3%
44	Connecticut	4.1	-35%
45	New Jersey	3.2	-39.9%
46	Iowa	2.7	-8.3%
47	New Hampshire	2	-31.8%
48	Hawaii	2	+72.4%
49	Rhode Island	0.8	+15.2%
50	Delaware	0.7	-24.9%

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About this ranking

Receipts of businesses without paid employees in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), in millions of current US dollars, from the U.S. Census Bureau Nonemployer Statistics.

Nonemployer Statistics: businesses with no paid employees that are subject to federal income tax, mostly the self-employed, counted from tax records, with receipts above small minimum amounts. Census says some years are not comparable with earlier ones, and they are marked as series breaks: 2018 in every sector (businesses were reclassified from their descriptions, which moved many out of other services), 2022 in every sector (new receipts cutoffs) and 2017 in utilities (the same reclassification). Most nonemployers are sole proprietors whose business may be a side activity. Published about 18 months after the reference year. Receipts are published in thousands of dollars with noise added to protect individual businesses, and are not adjusted for inflation.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. 1 states with data in other periods have no value for 2016 and are left out rather than filled from another source. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2016/historical-datasets/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

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U.S. Census Bureau. (2018). Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes (US states by nonemployer business receipts: mining, 2016) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2016/historical-datasets/

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Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes, US states by nonemployer business receipts: mining, 2016. U.S. Census Bureau, 21 June 2018, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2016/historical-datasets/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-receipts-mining/us-states?period=2016. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

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U.S. Census Bureau. 2018. Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes. US states by nonemployer business receipts: mining, 2016. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2016/historical-datasets/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-receipts-mining/us-states?period=2016.

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U.S. Census Bureau (2018) Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes, US states by nonemployer business receipts: mining, 2016 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2016/historical-datasets/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-receipts-mining/us-states?period=2016 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

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Which state has the highest nonemployer business receipts: mining?

Texas, with $1.96 billion in 2016, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest nonemployer business receipts: mining?

Delaware, with $655,000 in 2016.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: receipts (RCPTOT), mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (NAICS 21), all legal forms and receipts sizes. Retrieved 2026-10-12. 1 states have no value for 2016 and are not ranked.