# Counties in South Carolina by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 46 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/south-carolina-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Charleston County | 22,691 |
| 2 | Greenville County | 20,563 |
| 3 | Horry County | 12,766 |
| 4 | Richland County | 12,738 |
| 5 | York County | 9,163 |
| 6 | Lexington County | 8,953 |
| 7 | Spartanburg County | 8,562 |
| 8 | Beaufort County | 7,802 |
| 9 | Berkeley County | 5,344 |
| 10 | Anderson County | 4,631 |
| 11 | Aiken County | 3,946 |
| 12 | Florence County | 3,717 |
| 13 | Dorchester County | 3,696 |
| 14 | Pickens County | 2,978 |
| 15 | Georgetown County | 2,428 |
| 16 | Lancaster County | 2,330 |
| 17 | Sumter County | 2,308 |
| 18 | Oconee County | 2,048 |
| 19 | Orangeburg County | 1,852 |
| 20 | Greenwood County | 1,617 |
| 21 | Kershaw County | 1,584 |
| 22 | Darlington County | 1,257 |
| 23 | Laurens County | 1,086 |
| 24 | Cherokee County | 1,010 |
| 25 | Jasper County | 980 |
| 26 | Newberry County | 938 |
| 27 | Colleton County | 926 |
| 28 | Chesterfield County | 789 |
| 29 | Chester County | 671 |
| 30 | Williamsburg County | 643 |
| 31 | Clarendon County | 635 |
| 32 | Dillon County | 520 |
| 33 | Union County | 486 |
| 34 | Edgefield County | 471 |
| 35 | Marion County | 465 |
| 36 | Abbeville County | 444 |
| 37 | Fairfield County | 435 |
| 38 | Barnwell County | 424 |
| 39 | Hampton County | 410 |
| 40 | Marlboro County | 332 |
| 41 | Bamberg County | 313 |
| 42 | McCormick County | 305 |
| 43 | Saluda County | 304 |
| 44 | Lee County | 299 |
| 45 | Calhoun County | 284 |
| 46 | Allendale County | 174 |