Dickinson County — Firm Formation

Firm Openings & Closings

In the most recent quarter (2026 Q1), the county's establishment count contracted by 7 firms — the net of 4 added across growing industries and 9 lost across shrinking ones.
Show data table — Dickinson County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
Dickinson County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
QuarterEstablishments AddedEstablishments LostNet Change
2019 Q2+29-1+31
2019 Q3+8-2+8
2019 Q4+5-8-5
2020 Q1+16-7+10
2020 Q2+5-9-3
2020 Q3+5-7-3
2020 Q4+5-8-2
2021 Q1+8-5+3
2021 Q2+8-5+4
2021 Q3+2-7-6
2021 Q4+7-2+9
2022 Q1+13-4+8
2022 Q2+17+0+19
2022 Q3+6-3+3
2022 Q4+6-2+6
2023 Q1+16-2+16
2023 Q2+12+0+12
2023 Q3+6+0+6
2023 Q4+10+0+11
2024 Q1+0-102-117
2024 Q2+11-3+10
2024 Q3+3+0+4
2024 Q4+9-4+5
2025 Q1+13+0+15
2025 Q2+2-3+0
2025 Q3+7+0+8
2025 Q4+7-9-2
2026 Q1+4-9-7

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.