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2002 SURVEY OF BUSINESS OWNERS (SBO)

The SBO is a consolidation of two prior surveys, the Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (SMOBE/SWOBE), and includes questions from a survey discontinued in 1992 on Characteristics of Business Owners (CBO).

Women-Owned Firms: 2002

Revised August 29, 2006. Revisions are annotated by an "r" in the tables.

[ Full PDF   |  Tables Only PDF   |  Map   |  Charts    |  Press Release   |  Summary of Findings ]
[ Summary Statistics for Changes in the Number of Women-Owned Businesses and Their Receipts by State: 1997-2002 ]

[ Statistics for Selected Places With 100 or More Women-Owned Firms: 2002 ]


Statistics for 150 Places with the Largest Number of Women-Owned Firms: 2002

[NOTE. Includes firms with paid employees and firms with no paid employees. The estimates are based on the 2002 Survey of Business Owners. Firms with more than one domestic establishment are counted in each geographic area in which they operate. For information on confidentiality protection, sampling error, nonsampling error, geographic area coding, and definitions, see Introductory Text. Revisions are not noted in this table.]
Rank1 Geographic Area Name Number of women-owned firms Number of women-owned employer firms RSE of no of firms (%) RSE of no of empl firms (%)
1 New York city, NY 251,021 28,279 1 3
2 Los Angeles city, CA 117,713 15,634 2 6
3 Chicago city, IL 68,580 7,803 2 4
4 Houston city, TX 51,564 8,435 4 5
5 San Diego city, CA 32,513 4,753 3 13
6 San Francisco city, CA 28,459 4,690 5 11
7 Dallas city, TX 26,959 4,758 4 7
8 Phoenix city, AZ 25,212 4,042 6 2
9 San Antonio city, TX 22,074 3,332 6 15
10 Seattle city, WA 19,945 3,271 4 6
11 Miami city, FL 19,123 2,642 3 8
12 Philadelphia city, PA 18,976 3,097 5 10
13 Austin city, TX 18,023 3,076 6 8
14 Portland city, OR 17,900 3,155 5 6
15 San Jose city, CA 16,853 2,816 8 11
16 Columbus city, OH 16,289 1,788 7 12
17 Jacksonville city, FL 16,249 2,691 6 6
18 Denver city, CO 16,015 3,132 5 5
19 Washington city, DC 15,675 2,422 5 6
20 Indianapolis city (balance), IN 15,538 2,396 9 9
21 Detroit city, MI 14,038 1,169 5 9
22 Charlotte city, NC 13,416 2,270 7 5
23 Atlanta city, GA 13,040 2,264 6 7
24 Nashville-Davidson (balance), TN 12,815 1,779 12 7
25 Oakland city, CA 12,654 1,606 9 15
26 Boston city, MA 12,558 2,235 7 6
27 Oklahoma City city, OK 12,418 2,095 4 5
28 Hempstead town (balance), NY 12,306 1,707 9 14
29 Baltimore city, MD (Independent City) 12,142 1,702 9 8
30 Albuquerque city, NM 11,809 2,019 5 3
31 Tucson city, AZ 11,568 1,642 8 8
32 El Paso city, TX 11,472 1,592 4 11
33 Minneapolis city, MN 11,297 1,518 6 8
34 Memphis city, TN 11,269 1,509 7 5
35 Honolulu census designated place, HI 10,926 2,187 5 7
36 Las Vegas city, NV 10,869 1,495 6 6
37 Tulsa city, OK 10,804 1,862 4 6
38 New Orleans city, LA 10,407 1,493 6 4
39 Fort Worth city, TX 10,346 1,626 5 10
40 Colorado Springs city, CO 10,104 1,804 7 9
41 Long Beach city, CA 9,854 S 8 S
42 Kansas City city, MO 9,686 1,625 9 8
43 Virginia Beach city, VA (Independent City) 9,517 1,514 5 8
44 Sacramento city, CA 9,421 1,308 11 15
45 Arlington city, TX 8,836 851 8 9
46 Brookhaven town (balance), NY 8,819 1,439 10 11
47 Milwaukee city, WI 8,247 1,536 8 7
48 Raleigh city, NC 8,198 1,393 7 8
49 Scottsdale city, AZ 8,039 1,466 10 8
50 Omaha city, NE 8,001 1,564 4 8
51 Mesa city, AZ 7,947 943 10 12
52 Plano city, TX 7,925 926 5 18
53 Hialeah city, FL 7,898 863 12 19
54 Oyster Bay town (balance), NY 7,848 1,207 11 10
55 Tampa city, FL 7,443 1,473 11 11
56 Wichita city, KS 7,290 1,204 7 9
57 St. Paul city, MN 7,226 929 7 15
58 Anchorage municipality, AK 7,182 1,312 6 10
59 Bakersfield city, CA 6,979 845 7 24
60 St. Louis city, MO (Independent City) 6,969 1,363 9 14
61 Cincinnati city, OH 6,800 1,055 12 6
62 Cleveland city, OH 6,751 1,157 7 5
63 Glendale city, CA 6,652 790 11 32
64 Fort Lauderdale city, FL 6,566 1,530 8 9
65 St. Petersburg city, FL 6,489 881 15 14
66 Huntington town (balance), NY 6,422 1,131 9 10
67 Lincoln city, NE 6,355 825 8 14
68 Orlando city, FL 6,201 1,333 8 7
69 Islip town (balance), NY 6,197 904 6 15
70 Huntington Beach city, CA 6,160 825 14 30
71 Aurora city, CO 6,156 713 6 14
72 Corpus Christi city, TX 6,097 1,137 10 16
73 Anaheim city, CA 6,022 959 9 17
74 Lexington-Fayette, KY 5,977 1,003 10 10
75 Santa Monica city, CA 5,947 776 8 22
76 Henderson city, NV 5,824 568 9 9
77 Pittsburgh city, PA 5,823 1,375 15 10
78 Riverside city, CA 5,531 665 13 21
79 Greensboro city, NC 5,480 1,079 11 13
80 Berkeley city, CA 5,427 670 9 20
81 Madison city, WI 5,346 718 8 14
82 Boise City city, ID 5,252 969 10 10
83 Amarillo city, TX 5,218 869 12 20
84 Garland city, TX 5,187 447 10 16
85 Louisville city, KY 5,077 993 9 11
86 Santa Ana city, CA 4,997 995 9 20
87 Lubbock city, TX 4,901 557 12 24
88 Hollywood city, FL 4,887 675 5 27
89 Reno city, NV 4,862 833 9 9
90 Chula Vista city, CA 4,810 574 11 38
91 Overland Park city, KS 4,795 658 14 9
92 Fremont city, CA 4,787 820 12 13
93 Santa Rosa city, CA 4,761 687 10 24
94 Durham city, NC 4,689 827 10 11
95 Irvine city, CA 4,663 S 14 S
95 Boulder city, CO 4,663 862 17 8
97 Newton city, MA 4,631 546 13 17
98 Yonkers city, NY 4,611 397 12 30
99 Baton Rouge city, LA 4,571 937 5 8
100 Torrance city, CA 4,555 802 14 24
101 Pasadena city, CA 4,481 584 12 26
102 Des Moines city, IA 4,470 517 9 18
103 Spokane city, WA 4,455 668 7 16
104 Salt Lake City city, UT 4,402 888 7 13
105 Glendale city, AZ 4,388 523 13 14
106 Toledo city, OH 4,364 658 13 17
107 Escondido city, CA 4,360 664 14 23
108 Rochester city, NY 4,354 724 13 14
109 Chandler city, AZ 4,345 497 12 13
110 San Bernardino city, CA 4,324 328 12 39
111 Richmond city, VA (Independent City) 4,285 813 8 15
112 Eugene city, OR 4,188 796 7 13
113 Miami Beach city, FL 4,150 518 15 26
114 Little Rock city, AR 4,142 749 8 11
115 Cambridge city, MA 4,127 351 14 13
116 Fort Wayne city, IN 4,105 655 10 10
117 Akron city, OH 4,104 594 12 21
118 Winston-Salem city, NC 4,080 725 20 13
119 Mobile city, AL 4,064 645 10 7
120 Jersey City city, NJ 4,062 460 9 11
121 Knoxville city, TN 4,034 743 6 10
122 Oceanside city, CA 4,023 334 10 32
123 Costa Mesa city, CA 4,001 808 20 20
124 Coral Springs city, FL 3,997 719 10 24
125 Laredo city, TX 3,995 433 18 28
126 Pembroke Pines city, FL 3,985 516 10 17
127 Santa Fe city, NM 3,981 706 10 9
128 Thousand Oaks city, CA 3,972 447 15 20
129 Boca Raton city, FL 3,950 1,022 9 8
130 Newport Beach city, CA 3,940 697 15 29
131 Centennial city, CO 3,930 526 12 12
131 Alexandria city, VA (Independent City) 3,930 749 12 11
133 Montgomery city, AL 3,895 584 7 16
134 Bellevue city, WA 3,881 946 12 12
135 Providence city, RI 3,835 636 11 10
136 Rancho Cucamonga city, CA 3,828 284 14 46
136 Plantation city, FL 3,828 497 12 19
136 Naperville city, IL 3,828 553 12 8
139 Stockton city, CA 3,812 656 13 20
140 Huntsville city, AL 3,767 739 16 10
141 Burbank city, CA 3,762 769 11 19
142 Irving city, TX 3,749 619 12 18
143 Newark city, NJ 3,744 636 9 11
144 Lakewood city, CO 3,739 783 14 8
145 Chesapeake city, VA (Independent City) 3,700 629 13 12
146 San Buenaventura (Ventura) city, CA 3,681 409 10 27
146 Tacoma city, WA 3,681 591 14 22
148 Buffalo city, NY 3,632 764 11 14
149 Chattanooga city, TN 3,630 729 13 16
150 Corona city, CA 3,600 298 12 23

1 Ranking is based solely on the estimate of the number of all firms. Differences between estimates for places may not be statistically significant.

For more information on the scope, coverage, and methodology for the 2002 SBO, access SBO Survey Methodology .


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