How big is small business in the United States? Big, at least from the number of establishments view. I was doing some research and found the following. I thought I’d go ahead and post it in case you aren’t familiar with just how many small businesses there are in the US. Data from the commercial mail list provider www.infoUSA.com:
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Total US Contacts – Eliminations* Net Count |
Count 10,297,550 1,457,302 8,840,248 |
* 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:
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Employee Count 1-19 20-49 50-99 100-249 250-499 500-999 1,000-4,999 5,000-9,999 10,000+ |
8,083,791 535,511 174,803 96,492 23,194 9,154 6,905 1,083 1,136 |
91% 6% 2% 1% .03% .01% .01% 0% 0% |
Employee size breakout totals more than the gross total due to duplications which I did not eliminate.
Tom Crouser
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Crouser & Associates, Inc. 235 Dutch Rd. Charleston, WV 25302 |
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Toll Free: 888-427-3714 Local: 304-205-5416 Fax: 321-214-0391 |
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