# US states by business establishments (QCEW), 2025

All 51 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/us-states

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 1,877,156 |
| 2 | Florida | 868,046 |
| 3 | Texas | 856,979 |
| 4 | New York | 708,524 |
| 5 | Georgia | 395,028 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 389,774 |
| 7 | Illinois | 379,658 |
| 8 | North Carolina | 359,089 |
| 9 | Ohio | 347,138 |
| 10 | New Jersey | 329,088 |
| 11 | Virginia | 319,557 |
| 12 | Michigan | 314,706 |
| 13 | Massachusetts | 295,436 |
| 14 | Missouri | 254,399 |
| 15 | Colorado | 250,068 |
| 16 | Washington | 242,344 |
| 17 | Arizona | 225,937 |
| 18 | Tennessee | 214,457 |
| 19 | Minnesota | 212,524 |
| 20 | Wisconsin | 204,200 |
| 21 | Maryland | 199,467 |
| 22 | Indiana | 195,772 |
| 23 | South Carolina | 193,664 |
| 24 | Oregon | 177,694 |
| 25 | Alabama | 164,183 |
| 26 | Kentucky | 161,190 |
| 27 | Louisiana | 157,334 |
| 28 | Connecticut | 149,082 |
| 29 | Utah | 141,305 |
| 30 | Oklahoma | 129,155 |
| 31 | Iowa | 111,274 |
| 32 | Arkansas | 109,976 |
| 33 | Nevada | 108,001 |
| 34 | Idaho | 101,834 |
| 35 | Kansas | 98,159 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 90,845 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 77,604 |
| 38 | New Mexico | 68,693 |
| 39 | New Hampshire | 66,888 |
| 40 | Maine | 66,603 |
| 41 | West Virginia | 62,518 |
| 42 | Hawaii | 61,753 |
| 43 | Montana | 61,060 |
| 44 | District of Columbia | 51,277 |
| 45 | Rhode Island | 49,285 |
| 46 | Delaware | 47,742 |
| 47 | South Dakota | 40,814 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 36,560 |
| 49 | Vermont | 33,164 |
| 50 | Wyoming | 30,752 |
| 51 | Alaska | 25,169 |