# Counties in New York by employer firms, 2023

All 62 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employer_firms`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Number of firms in the private nonfarm sectors covered by the US Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics. Establishments under common ownership form one firm.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-11
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics: employer firms, all covered industries, nation, states and counties. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_cty.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-11.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firms/new-york-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | New York County | 69,993 |
| 2 | Kings County | 51,251 |
| 3 | Queens County | 41,606 |
| 4 | Suffolk County | 39,147 |
| 5 | Nassau County | 38,310 |
| 6 | Westchester County | 24,350 |
| 7 | Erie County | 16,323 |
| 8 | Bronx County | 14,638 |
| 9 | Monroe County | 13,006 |
| 10 | Richmond County | 9,136 |
| 11 | Rockland County | 8,995 |
| 12 | Onondaga County | 8,370 |
| 13 | Orange County | 8,307 |
| 14 | Albany County | 7,081 |
| 15 | Dutchess County | 6,083 |
| 16 | Saratoga County | 4,239 |
| 17 | Ulster County | 4,052 |
| 18 | Oneida County | 3,580 |
| 19 | Niagara County | 3,484 |
| 20 | Broome County | 3,006 |
| 21 | Rensselaer County | 2,328 |
| 22 | Ontario County | 2,319 |
| 23 | Putnam County | 2,308 |
| 24 | Schenectady County | 2,210 |
| 25 | Chautauqua County | 2,109 |
| 26 | Tompkins County | 1,842 |
| 27 | Jefferson County | 1,758 |
| 28 | Warren County | 1,640 |
| 29 | Oswego County | 1,605 |
| 30 | Sullivan County | 1,535 |
| 31 | Columbia County | 1,511 |
| 32 | Steuben County | 1,345 |
| 33 | Clinton County | 1,334 |
| 34 | St. Lawrence County | 1,325 |
| 35 | Wayne County | 1,307 |
| 36 | Chemung County | 1,296 |
| 37 | Cayuga County | 1,215 |
| 38 | Cattaraugus County | 1,194 |
| 39 | Genesee County | 1,058 |
| 40 | Madison County | 1,035 |
| 41 | Otsego County | 1,009 |
| 42 | Livingston County | 998 |
| 43 | Greene County | 980 |
| 44 | Fulton County | 915 |
| 45 | Essex County | 893 |
| 46 | Herkimer County | 882 |
| 47 | Washington County | 837 |
| 48 | Delaware County | 807 |
| 49 | Cortland County | 775 |
| 50 | Montgomery County | 711 |
| 51 | Franklin County | 690 |
| 52 | Chenango County | 664 |
| 53 | Wyoming County | 624 |
| 54 | Allegany County | 582 |
| 55 | Tioga County | 579 |
| 56 | Seneca County | 571 |
| 57 | Orleans County | 555 |
| 58 | Yates County | 468 |
| 59 | Schoharie County | 448 |
| 60 | Lewis County | 417 |
| 61 | Schuyler County | 313 |
| 62 | Hamilton County | 149 |