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Average employees per business establishment: U.S. states ranked

Measure: Average employees per business establishment (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Business establishments, jobs and payroll by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-09
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (opens in a new tab)

National value: 16.7 (United States).

Washington: 15.1Idaho: 12.2Montana: 9.6North Dakota: 13.9Minnesota: 18.2Michigan: 17.6Ohio: 19.9Pennsylvania: 18.6New York: 16.2Vermont: 12.3New Hampshire: 16Maine: 12.7Arizona: 17.7California: 15.9New Mexico: 14.7Texas: 17.9Louisiana: 15.6Mississippi: 15.8Alabama: 17.2Florida: 15.5Georgia: 16.9South Carolina: 16.8North Carolina: 16.6Virginia: 17District of Columbia: 23.5Maryland: 17.3Delaware: 15.4New Jersey: 16.6Connecticut: 17.2Rhode Island: 15.1Massachusetts: 19Oregon: 13.9Utah: 16.5Wyoming: 8.9Nevada: 17.4Colorado: 14.1South Dakota: 13.2Nebraska: 16.3Kansas: 16.4Oklahoma: 14.9Iowa: 17Missouri: 17.4Wisconsin: 18.3Illinois: 17.6Kentucky: 18.1Arkansas: 15.9Tennessee: 19.8West Virginia: 15.4Indiana: 18.8Alaska: 11.9Hawaii: 15.8

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 8.9 to 14.7
  • Group 2: 14.7 to 15.9
  • Group 3: 15.9 to 16.9
  • Group 4: 16.9 to 17.7
  • Highest: 17.7 to 23.5
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

1District of Columbia23.5
2Ohio19.9
3Tennessee19.8
4Massachusetts19
5Indiana18.8
6Pennsylvania18.6
7Wisconsin18.3
8Minnesota18.2
9Kentucky18.1
10Texas17.9
11Arizona17.7
12Illinois17.6
12Michigan17.6
14Missouri17.4
14Nevada17.4
16Maryland17.3
17Alabama17.2
17Connecticut17.2
19Iowa17
19Virginia17
21Georgia16.9
22South Carolina16.8
23New Jersey16.6
23North Carolina16.6
25Utah16.5
26Kansas16.4
27Nebraska16.3
28New York16.2
29New Hampshire16
30Arkansas15.9
30California15.9
32Hawaii15.8
32Mississippi15.8
34Louisiana15.6
35Florida15.5
36Delaware15.4
36West Virginia15.4
38Rhode Island15.1
38Washington15.1
40Oklahoma14.9
41New Mexico14.7
42Colorado14.1
43North Dakota13.9
43Oregon13.9
45South Dakota13.2
46Maine12.7
47Vermont12.3
48Idaho12.2
49Alaska11.9
50Montana9.6
51Wyoming8.9

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), all sectors (NAICS 00), by employment size class
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by average employees per business establishment (derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), all sectors (NAICS 00), by employment size class; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-average-employees-per-business-establishment/

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