Business Counts

BusinessCounts is a geographic summary database of business establishments and employees for nearly ten million businesses and one hundred and thirty million employees. The database is available for all standard levels of geography including block group and is supplemented by occupational data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and the County Business Patterns program.

Primary Variables

Total Establishments, Employees
• Size Establishments by size
• Occupation Employment by occupation
• Major Industry Establishments, Employees
• NAICS Custom 104 group classification (2,3,and 4 digit NAICS)
• NAICS Establishments, 4 digit
• Retail Sales estimates, employees, establishments

Methodology and Data Sources

The core source of BusinessCounts comes from dmPlus provided by Devonshire Associates. This Business Database is built from a careful integration of commercial databases, compiled white and yellow page directory data, city directories, corporate annual reports, and securities filings.

The database has been thoroughly cleansed for address consistency and geocoded. Virtually all records within the database are geocoded.

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