# Counties in New York by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 62 values come from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics for 2025, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `establishments_qcew`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Average number of establishments with jobs covered by unemployment insurance during the year, all industries, private and government, from the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW) of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. An establishment is a single place of business, such as a factory, store or office; a company with several locations has several.
- Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties (https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/bureau-of-labor-statistics
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- Citation: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW): annual average establishments, total covered, all industries (NAICS 10), nation, states and counties. https://data.bls.gov/cew/data/api/2025/a/industry/10.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/business-establishments/new-york-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | New York County | 128,409 |
| 2 | Kings County | 74,575 |
| 3 | Queens County | 57,626 |
| 4 | Nassau County | 55,976 |
| 5 | Suffolk County | 55,878 |
| 6 | Westchester County | 37,498 |
| 7 | Erie County | 24,734 |
| 8 | Bronx County | 20,064 |
| 9 | Monroe County | 19,430 |
| 10 | Onondaga County | 12,914 |
| 11 | Rockland County | 12,669 |
| 12 | Orange County | 11,864 |
| 13 | Albany County | 11,189 |
| 14 | Richmond County | 10,584 |
| 15 | Dutchess County | 8,941 |
| 16 | Saratoga County | 6,460 |
| 17 | Ulster County | 5,834 |
| 18 | Oneida County | 5,290 |
| 19 | Niagara County | 4,886 |
| 20 | Broome County | 4,393 |
| 21 | Schenectady County | 3,506 |
| 22 | Rensselaer County | 3,423 |
| 23 | Putnam County | 3,291 |
| 24 | Ontario County | 3,268 |
| 25 | Chautauqua County | 3,168 |
| 26 | Jefferson County | 2,885 |
| 27 | Tompkins County | 2,739 |
| 28 | Warren County | 2,387 |
| 29 | Sullivan County | 2,333 |
| 30 | Oswego County | 2,297 |
| 31 | Columbia County | 2,208 |
| 32 | Steuben County | 2,146 |
| 33 | Wayne County | 2,093 |
| 34 | St. Lawrence County | 2,040 |
| 35 | Clinton County | 1,932 |
| 36 | Chemung County | 1,864 |
| 37 | Cattaraugus County | 1,767 |
| 38 | Cayuga County | 1,717 |
| 39 | Madison County | 1,614 |
| 40 | Otsego County | 1,518 |
| 41 | Genesee County | 1,502 |
| 42 | Livingston County | 1,476 |
| 43 | Greene County | 1,386 |
| 44 | Essex County | 1,318 |
| 45 | Washington County | 1,300 |
| 46 | Herkimer County | 1,288 |
| 47 | Delaware County | 1,251 |
| 48 | Montgomery County | 1,224 |
| 49 | Fulton County | 1,152 |
| 50 | Cortland County | 1,104 |
| 51 | Franklin County | 1,098 |
| 52 | Chenango County | 1,029 |
| 53 | Wyoming County | 926 |
| 54 | Allegany County | 906 |
| 55 | Tioga County | 901 |
| 56 | Orleans County | 827 |
| 57 | Seneca County | 751 |
| 58 | Schoharie County | 696 |
| 59 | Yates County | 688 |
| 60 | Lewis County | 596 |
| 61 | Schuyler County | 468 |
| 62 | Hamilton County | 232 |