Madison County is the best place in Mississippi for small businesses, according to a new survey.
The county ranks first in SmartAsset s second annual report.
Returns for small businesses in Madison for the most recent survey were 58.12.on the index created by SmartAsset, compared with 58.39 in the previous year.
Second was Lafayette County,
 rated at 52.12, compared with 44.94 in 2019.
After those two, the best in 2020 were, in order: Humphreys, Adams, Marion, Noxubee, Lamar, Lincoln, Leflore and Covington.
Madison (city of Madison, Ridgeland and Canton and others) and Lafayette (Oxford) rank 267th and 589th in the nation, respectively.
Still, the survey reflects the fact that Madison is usually the leading county in the state in terms of income, and that Oxford is among the top micropolitan areas in the United States.