The self-employment rate is the percent of all employed people who have their own businesses (“proprietors”) as opposed to working for someone else in return for wages or salary.
In 2021, the self-employment rate in Gooding. . .
- was 25.1 percent, compared to 25.4 percent in 2010, 26.3 percent in 2000, 30.3 percent in 1990, and 31.0 percent in 1980;
- was 25.1 percent, compared to 26.1 in Idaho;
- ranked 32nd – from highest to lowest – out of Idaho's 44 counties.