# US states by employer firms, 2023

All 51 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.csv)
- Retrieved: 2026-10-10
- 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.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-10.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firms/us-states
- CSV: https://invokely.ai/download/rankings/employer-firms/us-states.csv

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 725,847 |
| 2 | Florida | 455,648 |
| 3 | Texas | 448,396 |
| 4 | New York | 402,077 |
| 5 | Illinois | 222,365 |
| 6 | Pennsylvania | 211,009 |
| 7 | Georgia | 177,543 |
| 8 | North Carolina | 175,992 |
| 9 | New Jersey | 175,347 |
| 10 | Ohio | 167,526 |
| 11 | Michigan | 155,861 |
| 12 | Virginia | 144,508 |
| 13 | Washington | 142,661 |
| 14 | Massachusetts | 131,145 |
| 15 | Colorado | 127,843 |
| 16 | Arizona | 107,886 |
| 17 | Minnesota | 103,804 |
| 18 | Indiana | 102,872 |
| 19 | Missouri | 102,345 |
| 20 | Maryland | 100,768 |
| 21 | Wisconsin | 98,413 |
| 22 | Tennessee | 97,956 |
| 23 | Oregon | 88,326 |
| 24 | South Carolina | 83,764 |
| 25 | Louisiana | 75,251 |
| 26 | Alabama | 71,429 |
| 27 | Utah | 67,722 |
| 28 | Oklahoma | 66,967 |
| 29 | Connecticut | 63,314 |
| 30 | Kentucky | 61,917 |
| 31 | Iowa | 56,436 |
| 32 | Nevada | 53,623 |
| 33 | Kansas | 52,865 |
| 34 | Arkansas | 47,875 |
| 35 | Idaho | 41,589 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 41,438 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 40,134 |
| 38 | New Mexico | 31,579 |
| 39 | Montana | 30,773 |
| 40 | Maine | 30,735 |
| 41 | New Hampshire | 28,617 |
| 42 | West Virginia | 23,492 |
| 43 | Hawaii | 23,176 |
| 44 | Rhode Island | 22,225 |
| 45 | South Dakota | 21,106 |
| 46 | Delaware | 20,713 |
| 47 | North Dakota | 17,941 |
| 48 | District of Columbia | 17,380 |
| 49 | Wyoming | 17,326 |
| 50 | Vermont | 15,868 |
| 51 | Alaska | 14,857 |