# Counties in Pennsylvania by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 67 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/pennsylvania-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Allegheny County | 36,462 |
| 2 | Philadelphia County | 33,456 |
| 3 | Montgomery County | 29,022 |
| 4 | Bucks County | 21,408 |
| 5 | Chester County | 16,708 |
| 6 | Lancaster County | 14,695 |
| 7 | Delaware County | 14,501 |
| 8 | York County | 9,419 |
| 9 | Westmoreland County | 9,071 |
| 10 | Lehigh County | 9,054 |
| 11 | Berks County | 8,908 |
| 12 | Luzerne County | 7,538 |
| 13 | Dauphin County | 7,521 |
| 14 | Northampton County | 7,118 |
| 15 | Cumberland County | 7,073 |
| 16 | Erie County | 6,700 |
| 17 | Washington County | 5,751 |
| 18 | Lackawanna County | 5,560 |
| 19 | Butler County | 5,494 |
| 20 | Monroe County | 3,715 |
| 21 | Centre County | 3,637 |
| 22 | Beaver County | 3,590 |
| 23 | Franklin County | 3,534 |
| 24 | Blair County | 3,477 |
| 25 | Cambria County | 3,260 |
| 26 | Lycoming County | 3,006 |
| 27 | Lebanon County | 2,978 |
| 28 | Schuylkill County | 2,955 |
| 29 | Mercer County | 2,839 |
| 30 | Fayette County | 2,718 |
| 31 | Adams County | 2,252 |
| 32 | Crawford County | 2,106 |
| 33 | Clearfield County | 2,008 |
| 34 | Lawrence County | 2,006 |
| 35 | Indiana County | 1,904 |
| 36 | Somerset County | 1,847 |
| 37 | Northumberland County | 1,832 |
| 38 | Columbia County | 1,570 |
| 39 | Bradford County | 1,506 |
| 40 | Wayne County | 1,464 |
| 41 | Armstrong County | 1,445 |
| 42 | Carbon County | 1,321 |
| 43 | Bedford County | 1,243 |
| 44 | Venango County | 1,206 |
| 45 | Jefferson County | 1,182 |
| 46 | Pike County | 1,143 |
| 47 | Mifflin County | 1,093 |
| 48 | Clarion County | 1,064 |
| 49 | McKean County | 1,052 |
| 50 | Huntingdon County | 1,036 |
| 51 | Snyder County | 1,028 |
| 52 | Union County | 1,020 |
| 53 | Tioga County | 998 |
| 54 | Susquehanna County | 962 |
| 55 | Elk County | 940 |
| 56 | Clinton County | 918 |
| 57 | Warren County | 904 |
| 58 | Perry County | 899 |
| 59 | Greene County | 786 |
| 60 | Wyoming County | 719 |
| 61 | Juniata County | 579 |
| 62 | Montour County | 490 |
| 63 | Potter County | 472 |
| 64 | Fulton County | 324 |
| 65 | Sullivan County | 176 |
| 66 | Cameron County | 156 |
| 67 | Forest County | 142 |