Employer establishments: accommodation and food services
Number of establishments with paid employees in accommodation and food services (hotels, restaurants and bars) (NAICS 72), from the U.S. Census Bureau County Business Patterns.
County Business Patterns: establishments (single physical locations, not firms) with paid employees during the pay period including 12 March. Excludes the self-employed and businesses without employees (nonemployer_establishments_*), government employers, crop and animal production, rail transportation, the Postal Service and private households. Establishment counts are not perturbed; the noise Census adds since 2017 applies to employment and payroll, which are not served here. Published about 18 months after the reference year.
Key facts
- Employer establishments: accommodation and food services in the United States was 784,882 in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- California had the highest employer establishments: accommodation and food services of 51 states in 2023, at 95,952, and Wyoming the lowest, at 1,877. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Published for 52 places, with figures from 2012 to 2023.
Rankings
US states by employer establishments: accommodation and food services, 2023
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- Alabama
- Alaska
- Arkansas
- Arizona
- Connecticut
- Colorado
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