# Counties in Pennsylvania by employer firms, 2023

All 67 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/pennsylvania-counties

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | Allegheny County | 23,471 |
| 2 | Philadelphia County | 22,359 |
| 3 | Montgomery County | 20,028 |
| 4 | Bucks County | 15,721 |
| 5 | Chester County | 11,597 |
| 6 | Lancaster County | 10,918 |
| 7 | Delaware County | 10,338 |
| 8 | Berks County | 6,579 |
| 9 | Lehigh County | 6,515 |
| 10 | York County | 6,509 |
| 11 | Westmoreland County | 6,415 |
| 12 | Luzerne County | 5,301 |
| 13 | Dauphin County | 5,221 |
| 14 | Northampton County | 5,146 |
| 15 | Cumberland County | 4,835 |
| 16 | Erie County | 4,425 |
| 17 | Washington County | 4,140 |
| 18 | Lackawanna County | 3,975 |
| 19 | Butler County | 3,913 |
| 20 | Monroe County | 2,774 |
| 21 | Centre County | 2,634 |
| 22 | Beaver County | 2,577 |
| 23 | Franklin County | 2,502 |
| 24 | Blair County | 2,497 |
| 25 | Lebanon County | 2,267 |
| 26 | Cambria County | 2,216 |
| 27 | Lycoming County | 2,126 |
| 28 | Schuylkill County | 2,103 |
| 29 | Mercer County | 2,017 |
| 30 | Fayette County | 1,970 |
| 31 | Adams County | 1,631 |
| 32 | Crawford County | 1,556 |
| 33 | Clearfield County | 1,494 |
| 34 | Lawrence County | 1,479 |
| 35 | Indiana County | 1,422 |
| 36 | Somerset County | 1,360 |
| 37 | Northumberland County | 1,288 |
| 38 | Columbia County | 1,135 |
| 39 | Wayne County | 1,081 |
| 40 | Bradford County | 1,031 |
| 41 | Armstrong County | 1,021 |
| 42 | Carbon County | 990 |
| 43 | Jefferson County | 898 |
| 44 | Venango County | 881 |
| 45 | Bedford County | 842 |
| 46 | Pike County | 824 |
| 47 | Mifflin County | 818 |
| 48 | Union County | 785 |
| 49 | Snyder County | 761 |
| 50 | Clarion County | 756 |
| 51 | McKean County | 713 |
| 52 | Susquehanna County | 705 |
| 53 | Elk County | 700 |
| 54 | Perry County | 678 |
| 55 | Clinton County | 673 |
| 56 | Huntingdon County | 671 |
| 57 | Tioga County | 657 |
| 58 | Warren County | 602 |
| 59 | Greene County | 558 |
| 60 | Wyoming County | 523 |
| 61 | Juniata County | 441 |
| 62 | Montour County | 305 |
| 63 | Potter County | 280 |
| 64 | Fulton County | 226 |
| 65 | Sullivan County | 136 |
| 66 | Cameron County | 103 |
| 67 | Forest County | 74 |