Baraga County — Firm Formation

Firm Openings & Closings

In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count contracted by 2 firms — the net of 1 added across growing industries and 3 lost across shrinking ones.
Show data table — Baraga County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
Baraga County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
QuarterEstablishments AddedEstablishments LostNet Change
2019 Q2+6+0+14
2019 Q3+1+0+3
2019 Q4+4-3-1
2020 Q1+1-4+2
2020 Q2+0-2-1
2020 Q3+1-4-5
2020 Q4+2-2+0
2021 Q1+2-1+3
2021 Q2+0+0-2
2021 Q3+1-2-1
2021 Q4+0+0-1
2022 Q1+1-3-2
2022 Q2+5+0+8
2022 Q3+0+0+0
2022 Q4+1+0+1
2023 Q1+1+0+2
2023 Q2+1-1+2
2023 Q3+0+0+6
2023 Q4+1+0+2
2024 Q1+0-6-23
2024 Q2+2-6+5
2024 Q3+0+0+0
2024 Q4+0-1+1
2025 Q1+3+0+3
2025 Q2+2+0+3
2025 Q3+1+0+1
2025 Q4+1-1-1
2026 Q1+1-3-2

Source: BLS QCEW — Quarterly

Each blue bar sums the QoQ establishment growth across industries that gained firms; the red bar sums the loss across industries that shed firms. The dark line shows the county's BLS-published private establishment net change (own_code=5, agglvl=71) — it does not equal the sum of the bars because BLS suppresses small-cell industries from the per-sector view. The dashed gold benchmark is U.S. private-sector QoQ growth rescaled to the county's private establishment base — like-for-like with the bars. Trailing quarters with no benchmark mean the national figure hasn't been published yet. Q1 typically shows a large negative pattern across counties due to year-end reporting cycles in QCEW. This is not true gross firm openings and closings — BLS does not publish those at the county level.