Chippewa County — Firm Formation

Firm Openings & Closings

In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count contracted by 12 firms — the net of 4 added across growing industries and 14 lost across shrinking ones.
Show data table — Chippewa County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
Chippewa County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
QuarterEstablishments AddedEstablishments LostNet Change
2019 Q2+45+0+50
2019 Q3+7-1+8
2019 Q4+0-11-10
2020 Q1+4-7-4
2020 Q2+9-6+7
2020 Q3+2-18-14
2020 Q4+7-4+2
2021 Q1+14-6+11
2021 Q2+11-3+7
2021 Q3+7-3+3
2021 Q4+14-5+9
2022 Q1+8-7+3
2022 Q2+21-1+25
2022 Q3+10+0+12
2022 Q4+6-1+4
2023 Q1+8-1+9
2023 Q2+21-2+16
2023 Q3+19+0+15
2023 Q4+8+0+10
2024 Q1+0-97-110
2024 Q2+12-2+14
2024 Q3+4+0+5
2024 Q4+2-5-2
2025 Q1+17+0+15
2025 Q2+5+0+8
2025 Q3+3-8-3
2025 Q4+1-10-9
2026 Q1+4-14-12

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.