Businesses in West Virginia

July 29, 2012

I obtained the following data on sizes of West Virginia businesses from the commercial mail list provider www.infoUSA.com on July 28, 2012:


Total West Virginia Contacts
– Eliminations*
Net Count		 Count
51,452
18,296
40,073

* Eliminations: from the total count, I removed schools, colleges, government offices, membership and religious organizations, social service entities and US Post Offices to obtain a net estimate of commercial business entities in the state. Understand this is probably MORE than the total number of businesses in WV since this data is location sensitive and one business may have more than one location. Actual tax data would be more accurate, however that was not available to me. Further, I note that eliminations amount to 22% or about 1 in 5 of the gross number of mailable business entities.

From this, the following data by number of employees** was found:

Employee Count
1-19
20-49
50-99
100-249
250-499
500-999
1,000-4,999
5,000-9,999
10,000+ 		36,411
2,611
943
426
119
47
30
1
0 		90%
6%
2%
1%
.03%
.01%
.01%
0%
0%

Employee size breakout totals 515 more than the gross total due to duplications. But since I did not buy the data, rather searched it, I was unable to it reconcile the variance.