Gogebic 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 2 added across growing industries and 9 lost across shrinking ones.
Show data table — Gogebic County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
Gogebic County — quarterly establishment additions, losses, and net change
QuarterEstablishments AddedEstablishments LostNet Change
2019 Q2+21-1+22
2019 Q3+5+0+4
2019 Q4+4-3-1
2020 Q1+1-4-2
2020 Q2+4-3+1
2020 Q3+2-7-5
2020 Q4+1-6-7
2021 Q1+8-3+5
2021 Q2+3-3+0
2021 Q3+4-2+2
2021 Q4+2-7-5
2022 Q1+6-2+7
2022 Q2+13+0+15
2022 Q3+6-2+5
2022 Q4+11-1+10
2023 Q1+6+0+11
2023 Q2+9+0+10
2023 Q3+4+0+4
2023 Q4+4-1+5
2024 Q1+0-41-47
2024 Q2+5+0+6
2024 Q3+4+0+4
2024 Q4+1-7-6
2025 Q1+4-3+2
2025 Q2+3-1+2
2025 Q3+1-3+2
2025 Q4+1-4-3
2026 Q1+2-9-7

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.