U.S. metro areas with most nonemployer businesses 2018

This statistic shows the leading metropolitan areas with the highest number of non-employer businesses in the United States in 2018. In 2018, the New York-Newark-Jersey City metro area was ranked first with a total number of 2.02 million non-employer businesses.

Leading metropolitan areas with the highest number of nonemployer businesses in the United States in 2018

Characteristic	Number of nonemployer businesses
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ-PA	2,023,919
Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA	1,430,673
Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL	1,052,550
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN-WI	814,273
Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX	708,538
Houston-The Woodlands-Sugar Land, TX	663,771
Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA	629,914
Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV	584,402
San Francisco-Oakland-Hayward, CA	463,717
Philadelphia-Camden-Wilmington, PA-NJ-DE-MD	452,633
Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH	424,719
Phoenix-Mesa-Scottsdale, AZ	356,955
Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI	351,743
Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA	330,713
San Diego-Carlsbad, CA	292,941
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL	286,933
Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA	282,855
Denver-Aurora-Lakewood, CO	281,622
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI	280,568
Orlando-Kissimmee-Sanford, FL	270,929
Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD	219,643
Austin-Round Rock, TX	212,611
Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC	210,756
San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX	199,220
Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA	187,256

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May 2020

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United States

Survey time period

2018

Supplementary notes

Industry classification of firms is currently based on the 2017 North American Industry Classifcation System (NAICS), which is comprised of nearly 1,200 industries. Further details can be find here.
Figures shown here are of "Total for all sectors".

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