Delta County — Firm Formation

Firm Openings & Closings

In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count contracted by 17 firms — the net of 2 added across growing industries and 21 lost across shrinking ones.
Show data table — Delta County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
Delta County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
QuarterEstablishments AddedEstablishments LostNet Change
2019 Q2+41-2+52
2019 Q3+10-2+11
2019 Q4+3-15-11
2020 Q1+13-12+0
2020 Q2+8-12-5
2020 Q3+4-12-9
2020 Q4+5-7-4
2021 Q1+16-5+13
2021 Q2+9-2+6
2021 Q3+12-4+8
2021 Q4+4-5-3
2022 Q1+4-12-1
2022 Q2+28-1+27
2022 Q3+13+0+12
2022 Q4+6+0+8
2023 Q1+18-2+21
2023 Q2+16+0+18
2023 Q3+8+0+6
2023 Q4+17-2+11
2024 Q1+0-110-125
2024 Q2+13+0+13
2024 Q3+10+0+9
2024 Q4+5-6+1
2025 Q1+16-3+17
2025 Q2+10-2+10
2025 Q3+14+0+12
2025 Q4+10-8-5
2026 Q1+2-21-17

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.