US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management

California had the highest nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management of 51 states in 2013, at 253,127. Alaska had the lowest, at 3,155. The median was 25,214 and the figure for the United States was 2.03 million. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.

Highest253,127California

Lowest3,155Alaska

Median25,21451 states

United States2,032,516History

Map of states, 2013

Under 6,000
6,000 to 14K
14K to 25K
25K to 35K
35K to 57K
57K and over

count, 2013. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. Boundaries: U.S. Census Bureau cartographic boundary files.

All states, 2013

count. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Full ranking

Rank	States	2013 count	Change on 2012
1	California	253,127	+1.9%
2	Texas	220,392	+1.9%
3	Florida	216,225	+3.2%
4	New York	106,241	-0.4%
5	Georgia	94,991	+2.2%
6	Illinois	75,559	+0.6%
7	North Carolina	71,529	+1.7%
8	Ohio	65,910	+0.4%
9	Michigan	58,466	-0.1%
10	Pennsylvania	54,629	-0.4%
11	Tennessee	50,466	-0%
12	Virginia	45,423	+0.9%
13	New Jersey	41,994	+2%
14	Maryland	40,089	+5.8%
15	Arizona	38,864	+3.3%
16	Louisiana	37,431	-0.1%
17	Alabama	37,265	-1.7%
18	Massachusetts	34,603	+2.6%
19	Indiana	33,360	+0.9%
20	South Carolina	33,178	+0.9%
21	Missouri	32,403	0%
22	Colorado	32,373	+0.6%
23	Kentucky	28,335	+0.5%
24	Washington	27,818	-0.5%
25	Minnesota	25,334	+0.1%
26	Oklahoma	25,214	+0.2%
27	Mississippi	23,488	+2.3%
28	Wisconsin	20,724	-0.1%
29	Arkansas	20,199	-0.8%
30	Connecticut	19,847	+0.6%
31	Oregon	16,622	-1%
32	Nevada	16,307	+6.3%
33	Kansas	15,029	+4.1%
34	Iowa	13,925	-1.5%
35	Utah	12,722	+0.5%
36	Nebraska	9,279	+0.7%
37	New Mexico	9,019	-0.4%
38	Hawaii	8,288	+1.8%
39	Maine	7,664	-0.5%
40	Idaho	7,524	+0.3%
41	New Hampshire	7,338	+2.5%
42	West Virginia	7,235	-4.1%
43	Rhode Island	5,370	+0.5%
44	Montana	5,008	-1.5%
45	Vermont	4,462	-1.3%
46	Delaware	4,202	-0.1%
47	South Dakota	3,959	+3.6%
48	District of Columbia	3,491	+1.4%
49	Wyoming	3,259	+2.9%
50	North Dakota	3,181	0%
51	Alaska	3,155	+1.6%

Other periods

About this ranking

Number of businesses without paid employees in administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), from the U.S. Census Bureau Nonemployer Statistics.

Nonemployer Statistics: businesses with no paid employees that are subject to federal income tax, mostly the self-employed, counted from tax records, with receipts above small minimum amounts. Census says some years are not comparable with earlier ones, and they are marked as series breaks: 2018 in every sector (businesses were reclassified from their descriptions, which moved many out of other services), 2022 in every sector (new receipts cutoffs) and 2017 in utilities (the same reclassification). Most nonemployers are sole proprietors whose business may be a side activity. Published about 18 months after the reference year.

Every value in the ranking comes from the same publisher and the same period, so the states are compared on one definition. Equal values share a rank.

How to cite

U.S. Census Bureau. Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.

Citation styles

The publisher is the author. Invokely is named only as the place the figures were read, where a style asks for it.

APA 7

U.S. Census Bureau. (2017). Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms (US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013) [Data set]. Retrieved October 12, 2026, from https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/

MLA 9

Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms, US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013. U.S. Census Bureau, 6 June 2017, https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/. Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013. Accessed 12 Oct. 2026.

Chicago (author-date)

U.S. Census Bureau. 2017. Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013. Dataset. Accessed October 12, 2026. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/. Also distributed by Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013.

Harvard

U.S. Census Bureau (2017) Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms, US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013 [Dataset]. Available at: https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/, via Invokely: https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013 (Accessed: 12 October 2026).

BibTeX

@misc{census_us_states_by_nonemployer_2013,
  author = {{U.S. Census Bureau}},
  title = {{Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms: US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013}},
  year = {2017},
  howpublished = {Data set},
  url = {https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/},
  urldate = {2026-10-12},
  note = {Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013. Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.},
}

RIS

TY  - DATA
AU  - U.S. Census Bureau
TI  - Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms: US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2017/06/06
PB  - U.S. Census Bureau
DB  - Invokely
UR  - https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/
L2  - https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013
Y2  - 2026/10/12
N1  - Accessed via Invokely, https://invokely.ai/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013.
N1  - Publisher attribution: U.S. Census Bureau. Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/nonemployer-statistics/datasets/2013/historical-datasets/. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
ER  -

Embed this chart

Paste this code into a web page or a blog post. The chart shows the latest figures as they are published, with the source and a link back to this page.

Embed code

<iframe src="https://invokely.ai/embed/rankings/nonemployer-businesses-administrative-support/us-states?period=2013" width="760" height="500" title="US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management, 2013, chart from Invokely" loading="lazy" style="border:0;width:100%;max-width:760px" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin"></iframe>

Sites that read oEmbed links, such as WordPress, can show the chart when you paste the link to this page.

Use this data in your AI agent

Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:

Rank US states by nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management using official data, and cite the source.

rank_places {"indicator":"nonemployer_establishments_administrative_support","level":"region","within":"United States","limit":10}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=nonemployer_establishments_administrative_support&level=region&within=United%20States&limit=10

Connect Claude, ChatGPT or Cursor in one step. The trial answers 25 calls a day without an account.

Questions

Which state has the highest nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management?

California, with 253,127 in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.

Which state has the lowest nonemployer businesses: administrative support and waste management?

Alaska, with 3,155 in 2013.

Where does this ranking come from?

Every value comes from one source and one period, so the places are comparable: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics, state and US files: establishments (ESTAB), administrative and support and waste management and remediation services (NAICS 56), all legal forms. Retrieved 2026-10-12.