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establishments · U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages, via economicdata.dev · workplaces covered by unemployment insurance, each location counted once
- United States, 2025
- 12.1M establishments
- States with a figure
- 53 2025
- Counties with a figure
- 3,221 2025
Show the numbers (12 rows)
| Year | United States |
|---|---|
| 2025 | 12112924.5 |
| 2024 | 12057370.5 |
| 2023 | 11866306.0 |
| 2022 | 11519312.0 |
| 2021 | 10909075.8 |
| 2020 | 10487687.0 |
| 2019 | 10233822.3 |
| 2018 | 10011038.3 |
| 2017 | 9835103.8 |
| 2016 | 9716618.0 |
| 2015 | 9522774.5 |
| 2014 | 9361354.3 |
Every state, 2025
| Rank | State | Business establishments | 1 yr | 5 yr | 10 yr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | California | 1.9M establishments | +1.5% | +15.8% | +32.5% |
| 2 | Florida | 868.0K establishments | −1.6% | +16.3% | +35.1% |
| 3 | Texas | 857.0K establishments | +1.3% | +16.3% | +34.0% |
| 4 | New York | 708.5K establishments | +0.1% | +8.7% | +13.0% |
| 5 | Georgia | 395.0K establishments | +0.8% | +27.6% | +36.8% |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 389.8K establishments | +0.4% | +7.9% | +11.5% |
| 7 | Illinois | 379.7K establishments | −4.3% | +0.8% | −5.8% |
| 8 | North Carolina | 359.1K establishments | −4.7% | +20.3% | +34.8% |
| 9 | Ohio | 347.1K establishments | +1.1% | +13.7% | +19.3% |
| 10 | New Jersey | 329.1K establishments | +1.0% | +16.2% | +26.9% |
| 11 | Virginia | 319.6K establishments | +0.6% | +13.0% | +25.7% |
| 12 | Michigan | 314.7K establishments | +4.7% | +17.8% | +31.7% |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 295.4K establishments | +4.1% | +12.4% | +24.2% |
| 14 | Missouri | 254.4K establishments | +4.6% | +17.1% | +32.7% |
| 15 | Colorado | 250.1K establishments | +0.1% | +14.4% | +34.4% |
| 16 | Washington | 242.3K establishments | +2.0% | −9.8% | +1.3% |
| 17 | Arizona | 225.9K establishments | +0.2% | +33.0% | +52.1% |
| 18 | Tennessee | 214.5K establishments | −5.6% | +24.3% | +42.7% |
| 19 | Minnesota | 212.5K establishments | −0.1% | +16.8% | +32.3% |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 204.2K establishments | +0.4% | +14.6% | +22.3% |
| 21 | Maryland | 199.5K establishments | +1.7% | +14.1% | +18.2% |
| 22 | Indiana | 195.8K establishments | +2.0% | +13.4% | +22.9% |
| 23 | South Carolina | 193.7K establishments | +1.7% | +32.9% | +58.2% |
| 24 | Oregon | 177.7K establishments | −4.8% | +9.2% | +25.7% |
| 25 | Alabama | 164.2K establishments | +2.0% | +24.3% | +37.7% |
| 26 | Kentucky | 161.2K establishments | +1.7% | +26.4% | +31.8% |
| 27 | Louisiana | 157.3K establishments | +1.5% | +13.7% | +25.6% |
| 28 | Connecticut | 149.1K establishments | +0.1% | +19.3% | +28.9% |
| 29 | Utah | 141.3K establishments | +1.3% | +25.1% | +51.7% |
| 30 | Oklahoma | 129.2K establishments | 0.0% | +14.7% | +18.9% |
| 31 | Iowa | 111.3K establishments | −0.5% | +5.9% | +11.0% |
| 32 | Arkansas | 110.0K establishments | +6.0% | +17.8% | +25.1% |
| 33 | Nevada | 108.0K establishments | +0.1% | +24.4% | +36.9% |
| 34 | Idaho | 101.8K establishments | −0.9% | +46.7% | +81.8% |
| 35 | Kansas | 98.2K establishments | −1.8% | +12.1% | +13.1% |
| 36 | Mississippi | 90.8K establishments | +1.7% | +22.0% | +26.6% |
| 37 | Nebraska | 77.6K establishments | +1.0% | +10.2% | +9.6% |
| 38 | New Mexico | 68.7K establishments | +0.2% | +8.0% | +20.7% |
| 39 | New Hampshire | 66.9K establishments | 0.0% | +21.0% | +32.0% |
| 40 | Maine | 66.6K establishments | +1.8% | +22.7% | +31.2% |
| 41 | West Virginia | 62.5K establishments | +1.3% | +21.6% | +24.6% |
| 42 | Hawaii | 61.8K establishments | +3.7% | +34.8% | +58.0% |
| 43 | Montana | 61.1K establishments | −4.4% | +16.1% | +35.6% |
| 44 | Puerto Rico | 52.6K establishments | +1.1% | +13.9% | +14.5% |
| 45 | District of Columbia | 51.3K establishments | −1.8% | +20.6% | +34.9% |
| 46 | Rhode Island | 49.3K establishments | +0.6% | +23.3% | +35.6% |
| 47 | Delaware | 47.7K establishments | +4.3% | +35.5% | +54.6% |
| 48 | South Dakota | 40.8K establishments | +1.3% | +16.6% | +25.6% |
| 49 | North Dakota | 36.6K establishments | 0.0% | +12.8% | +13.8% |
| 50 | Vermont | 33.2K establishments | +2.9% | +26.0% | +34.7% |
| 51 | Wyoming | 30.8K establishments | +0.6% | +12.6% | +17.8% |
| 52 | Alaska | 25.2K establishments | +0.2% | +11.4% | +13.3% |
| 53 | U.S. Virgin Islands | 3.0K establishments | −13.2% | −14.6% | −10.9% |
Rank 1 is the highest value. States are the 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands where they have a figure.
Highest and lowest counties, 2025
| Highest | State | Business establishments |
|---|---|---|
| Los Angeles County | California | 577.3K establishments |
| Orange County | California | 152.4K establishments |
| Maricopa County | Arizona | 141.9K establishments |
| Cook County | Illinois | 137.4K establishments |
| San Diego County | California | 135.2K establishments |
| New York County | New York | 128.4K establishments |
| Harris County | Texas | 122.9K establishments |
| Miami-Dade County | Florida | 122.6K establishments |
| Riverside County | California | 89.5K establishments |
| Santa Clara County | California | 84.4K establishments |
| Lowest | State | Business establishments |
|---|---|---|
| McPherson County | Nebraska | 9.8 establishments |
| Arthur County | Nebraska | 14.0 establishments |
| Banner County | Nebraska | 14.3 establishments |
| Slope County | North Dakota | 15.8 establishments |
| Loving County | Texas | 20.8 establishments |
| Loup County | Nebraska | 21.3 establishments |
| Petroleum County | Montana | 24.8 establishments |
| Taliaferro County | Georgia | 26.5 establishments |
| Sioux County | Nebraska | 26.5 establishments |
| Buffalo County | South Dakota | 26.5 establishments |
Every county's figure is on its own page, in its profile table, with its rank among all counties and within its state.
Get this data
This page's numbers, as JSON:
curl https://visualizedata.org/data/us-indicators/us-establishments.jsonEvery place from economicdata.dev (live, no key; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics data, this exact version):
curl "https://api.economicdata.dev/v1/qcew@2026-10-26.555cc1e983/download/qcew.parquet"Source
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (U.S. public domain): QCEW total covered, annual average establishments.
- Read through economicdata.dev, dataset qcew, version 2026-10-26.555cc1e983; its 48 input files from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics are named with their sha256 in this page's data, and the site's checks recompute every figure from them.
- A year counts once all four of its quarters are published and none is suppressed. Jobs is the mean of the year's twelve monthly counts; the average weekly wage is the year's total wages divided by that mean and by 52, as BLS computes its annual averages; establishments is the mean of the four quarterly counts.
- BLS publishes each quarter about five months after it ends; economicdata.dev re-reads it daily.
- 14 areas in the source are not places in the geo registry and are left out: us-county-02261, us-county-02270, us-county-09001, us-county-09003, us-county-09005, us-county-09007, us-county-09009, us-county-09011, us-county-09013, us-county-09015, us-county-46113, us-county-78010, us-county-78020, us-county-78030 (Connecticut's former counties, retired Alaska and South Dakota codes, the Virgin Islands).
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