County Business Patterns
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County Business Patterns (CBP)
Metro Business Patterns (MBP)
ZIP Code Business
Patterns (ZBP)
These three programs cover most of the country's economic activity, as described in an introduction. The series excludes data on self-employed individuals, employees of private households, railroad employees, agricultural production employees, and most government employees. For information on businesses with no paid employees, see Nonemployer Statistics.
These data include counts of establishments by the employment size of the establishment. Statistics on businesses by employment size of the firm are published in Statistics of U.S. Businesses.
Data for 2007 were released in July 2009. The press release highlights key findings.
View data in tables
| 3 (1998-2007) | |
Data in other formats for manipulation and analysis
- Extract and manipulate the data in American FactFinder (2004 to 2006 only)
- Download the data in comma-delimited format (1986 to 2007)
- See the discussion of Historical CBP Data for earlier years, including data for selected years on CD-ROM.
1 Employers without a fixed location within a state (or of unknown county location) are included under a "statewide" classification at the end of the county tables. This incomplete detail causes only slight understatement of county employment. The independent cities in Virginia, and the cities of Baltimore, MD; Carson City, NV; and St. Louis, MO, are treated as separate counties.
2Most ZIP Codes are derived from the physical location address reported in Census Bureau programs. The Internal Revenue Service provides supplemental address information. Those employers without a fixed location or with an unknown ZIP Code are included under an "Unclassified" category indicated by ZIP Code 99999.
3 Metropolitan statistical areas have an urban core with 50,000 or more inhabitants. Micropolitan statistical areas have an urban core with 10,000 to 49,999 inhabitants. See definitions or maps for metropolitan and micropolitan areas as of November 2007.
