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More data	Group			All firms		Firms with paid employees
				Firms (number)	Sales and Receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and Receipts ($1,000)	Employees	Payroll ($1,000)
	Universe (All Firms)			56,586	89,318,585	18,385	87,509,700	346,302	10,780,041
	Total minorities			5,329	1,244,413	1,266	1,084,999	9,333	168,035
		Black		2,707	184,549	322	144,443	3,450	43,258
		Hispanic		898	503,859	159	426,546	1,517	33,284
			Cuban	40	9,368	17	8,844	88	2,593
			Mexican Mexican American, Chicano	99	D	7	D	0 to 19	D
			Puerto Rican	362	36,417	58	31,282	676	11,383
			Spaniard	86	D	25	D	250 to 499	D
			Hispanic Latin American	137	D	39	D	250 to 499	D
			Other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino	172	D	12	D	20 to 99	D
		American Indian and Alaska Natives		288	55,226	56	49,898	1,423	18,542
		Asian and Pacific Islander		1,501	510,236	732	472,660	2,976	73,546
			Asian Indian	576	177,988	376	167,518	1,237	22,982
			Chinese	306	123,321	91	115,666	622	26,051
			Filipino	134	30,548	71	28,872	371	11,273
			Japanese	36	D	3	D	0 to 19	D
			Korean	218	40,864	89	32,422	328	6,352
			Vietnamese	97	D	20	D	0 to 19	D
			Other Asian	132	130,574	83	126,222	403	5,883
			Hawaiian	3	D	0	0	0	0
			Other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Women			13,662	1,831,055	2,708	1,628,337	19,192	367,281

 

Universe (All Firms)		All firms		Firms with paid employees
SIC Code	Major Industry Group(SIC based)	Firms (number)	Sales and Receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and Receipts ($1,000)	Employees	Payroll ($1,000)
Total	All industries	56,586	89,318,585	18,385	87,509,700	346,302	10,780,041
	Agricultural services, forestry, and fishing	1,373	D	360	D	1,000 to 2,499	D
07	Agricultural services	1,179	D	352	D	1,000 to 2,499	D
08	Forestry	13	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
09	Fishing, hunting, and trapping	181	D	7	D	20 to 99	D
	Mineral Industries	49	D	8	D	100 to 249	D
10	Metal mining	1	D	0	0	0	0
12	Coal mining	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Oil & gas extraction	40	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
14	Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels	8	D	7	D	100 to 249	D
	Construction industries and subdividers and developers	6,559	3,136,732	2,289	2,918,959	20,441	632,533
15	Building construction--general contractors & operative builders	1,606	1,269,386	719	1,197,061	4,350	124,906
16	Heavy construction other than buildings construction--contractors	134	373,797	92	372,387	2,673	90,185
17	Construction--special trade contractors	4,643	1,453,165	1,449	1,333,185	13,335	415,891
6552	Subdividers and developers n.e.c.(ex cemeteries)	177	40,384	30	16,326	83	1,551
	Manufacturing	1,257	13,736,046	672	13,703,329	61,937	2,858,086
20	Food & kindred products	76	2,111,598	43	2,110,090	9,530	208,073
21	Tobacco products	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Textile mill products	14	D	10	D	250 to 499	D
23	Apparel & other textile products	74	36,467	28	35,248	1,216	33,006
24	Lumber & wood products	123	102,791	44	97,361	905	20,590
25	Furniture & fixtures	58	141,943	21	139,117	660	18,915
26	Paper & allied products	16	873,642	11	873,394	3,042	82,779
27	Printing & publishing	261	228,909	124	220,800	2,470	68,203
28	Chemicals & allied products	65	4,204,135	50	4,203,540	24,791	1,593,350
29	Petroleum & coal products	15	D	12	D	500 to 999	D
30	Rubber & miscellaneous plastics products	62	798,420	54	797,797	3,860	129,752
31	Leather & leather products	5	D	3	D	20 to 99	D
32	Stone, clay, & glass products	62	186,578	35	185,783	891	29,633
33	Primary metal industries	16	276,791	12	276,562	1,152	47,933
34	Fabricated metal products	89	270,670	59	269,262	2,111	73,304
35	Industrial machinery & equipment	109	230,594	81	229,934	1,732	57,127
36	Electronic & other electric equipment	44	150,427	21	149,648	805	29,722
37	Transportation equipment	38	D	17	D	2,500 to 4,999	D
38	Instruments & related products	42	739,447	31	738,991	3,222	151,177
39	Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	99	17,279	27	13,998	171	3,685
	Transportation, communications, & utilities	2,336	3,183,674	743	3,106,097	16,693	534,263
41	Local and interurban passenger transportation	309	87,451	161	83,756	2,077	34,002
42	Motor freight transportation & warehousing	1,237	455,030	341	408,198	4,362	119,841
44	Water transportation	99	D	34	D	500 to 999	D
45	Transportation by air	189	105,904	39	95,703	687	25,085
46	Pipelines, except natural gas	2	D	2	D	0 to 19	D
47	Transportation services	297	75,517	87	64,515	1,000	26,664
48	Communications	148	1,082,476	49	1,079,559	5,112	161,632
49	Electric, gas, & sanitary services	59	1,319,451	34	1,318,359	2,809	151,753
	Wholesale trade	1,775	13,274,579	1,031	13,215,271	16,926	718,782
50	Wholesale trade - durable goods	1,081	3,161,429	692	3,131,982	8,165	306,789
51	Wholesale trade - nondurable goods	699	10,113,150	344	10,083,289	8,761	411,993
	Retail trade	8,472	8,742,316	3,914	8,574,457	71,679	1,011,433
52	Building materials, hardware, garden supply, & mobile home dlr	274	533,976	195	528,391	3,095	60,045
53	General merchandise stores	118	1,108,920	55	1,104,638	8,228	101,445
54	Food stores	587	1,261,991	387	1,248,306	9,772	143,400
55	Automotive dealers & gasoline service stations	685	2,483,779	451	2,458,550	7,349	181,107
56	Apparel and accessory stores	403	406,055	258	399,514	3,599	39,433
57	Home furniture, furnishings, & equipment stores	524	653,506	346	640,991	3,724	75,045
58	Eating & drinking places	1,423	873,958	1,150	857,953	25,557	245,886
59	Miscellaneous retail	4,502	1,420,131	1,116	1,336,114	10,355	165,072
	Finance, insurance and real estate industries (ex sub & dev)	9,055	39,378,517	3,401	38,942,852	56,448	2,315,081
60	Depository institutions	105	15,748,738	101	D	25,000 to 49,999	D
61	Nondepository credit institutions	281	1,355,603	223	1,351,154	5,881	195,669
62	Security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges, & services	268	557,508	144	550,507	3,413	248,631
63	Insurance carriers	74	7,495,581	62	7,495,222	5,721	226,893
64	Insurance agents, brokers, and services	804	266,644	297	D	2,500 to 4,999	D
65pt	Real estate (excluding subdividers and developers)	4,747	771,732	622	447,427	3,330	79,799
67	Holding and other investment offices, except trusts	2,873	13,182,711	2,049	13,101,989	7,819	242,859
	Service industries (exc membership org & private households)	22,114	7,308,531	6,096	6,902,986	99,632	2,661,831
70	Hotels, rooming houses, camps, & other lodging places	268	158,291	145	148,755	2,500	40,848
72	Personal services	2,867	202,556	605	158,416	4,379	64,165
73	Business services	5,242	2,089,899	1,272	1,985,436	29,210	676,489
75	Automotive repair, services, & parking	1,032	244,456	457	221,671	3,035	71,867
76	Miscellaneous repair services	563	109,945	185	98,945	1,124	30,669
78	Motion pictures	171	49,769	103	47,140	811	8,318
79	Amusement and recreation services	1,724	317,145	299	290,391	4,921	82,332
80	Health services	2,419	2,235,618	1,165	2,183,082	29,042	974,261
81	Legal services	581	452,178	316	441,299	3,896	192,485
82	Educational services	836	313,098	155	300,616	4,952	106,752
83	Social services	2,401	301,144	444	271,616	8,067	116,916
84	Museums, art galleries, & botanical & zoological gardens	19	64,251	18	D	500 to 999	D
87	Eng, acctg, research, mgt, & rel serv	3,754	721,692	896	644,970	6,418	250,470
89	Services, n.e.c.	266	48,489	65	D	250 to 499	D
	Industries not classified	3,859	D	134	D	100 to 249	D

 

Total minorities		All firms		Firms with paid employees
SIC Code	Major Industry Group(SIC based)	Firms (number)	Sales and Receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and Receipts ($1,000)	Employees	Payroll ($1,000)
Total	All industries	5,329	1,244,413	1,266	1,084,999	9,333	168,035
	Agricultural services, forestry, and fishing	72	6,721	17	D	100 to 249	D
07	Agricultural services	63	D	17	D	100 to 249	D
08	Forestry	2	D	0	0	0	0
09	Fishing, hunting, and trapping	7	D	0	0	0	0
	Mineral Industries	0	0	0	0	0	0
10	Metal mining	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Coal mining	0	0	0	0	0	0
13	Oil & gas extraction	0	0	0	0	0	0
14	Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Construction industries and subdividers and developers	298	60,299	54	52,453	543	12,849
15	Building construction--general contractors & operative builders	31	D	5	D	20 to 99	D
16	Heavy construction other than buildings construction--contractors	3	D	1	D	100 to 249	D
17	Construction--special trade contractors	259	D	48	D	250 to 499	D
6552	Subdividers and developers n.e.c.(ex cemeteries)	6	D	0	0	0	0
	Manufacturing	82	28,502	38	24,166	114	3,234
20	Food & kindred products	6	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
21	Tobacco products	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Textile mill products	0	0	0	0	0	0
23	Apparel & other textile products	2	D	0	0	0	0
24	Lumber & wood products	19	D	0	0	0	0
25	Furniture & fixtures	2	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
26	Paper & allied products	0	0	0	0	0	0
27	Printing & publishing	1	D	0	0	0	0
28	Chemicals & allied products	3	D	2	D	0 to 19	D
29	Petroleum & coal products	0	0	0	0	0	0
30	Rubber & miscellaneous plastics products	0	0	0	0	0	0
31	Leather & leather products	0	0	0	0	0	0
32	Stone, clay, & glass products	3	D	1	D	20 to 99	D
33	Primary metal industries	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Fabricated metal products	2	D	2	D	20 to 99	D
35	Industrial machinery & equipment	0	0	0	0	0	0
36	Electronic & other electric equipment	14	D	14	D	0 to 19	D
37	Transportation equipment	0	0	0	0	0	0
38	Instruments & related products	5	D	0	0	0	0
39	Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	S	S	S	S	S	S
	Transportation, communications, & utilities	312	24,242	53	11,109	248	2,498
41	Local and interurban passenger transportation	51	1,360	9	D	0 to 19	D
42	Motor freight transportation & warehousing	200	15,402	39	6,225	200	1,355
44	Water transportation	1	D	0	0	0	0
45	Transportation by air	0	0	0	0	0	0
46	Pipelines, except natural gas	0	0	0	0	0	0
47	Transportation services	S	S	S	S	S	S
48	Communications	30	D	3	D	0 to 19	D
49	Electric, gas, & sanitary services	6	D	1	D	20 to 99	D
	Wholesale trade	138	509,008	57	D	500 to 999	D
50	Wholesale trade - durable goods	88	D	44	D	250 to 499	D
51	Wholesale trade - nondurable goods	50	D	13	D	100 to 249	D
	Retail trade	862	292,722	408	275,170	1,679	17,364
52	Building materials, hardware, garden supply, & mobile home dlr	2	D	0	0	0	0
53	General merchandise stores	10	D	4	1,775	3	204
54	Food stores	87	22,649	37	17,383	65	690
55	Automotive dealers & gasoline service stations	S	S	S	S	S	S
56	Apparel and accessory stores	47	7,480	23	6,936	51	544
57	Home furniture, furnishings, & equipment stores	S	S	S	S	S	S
58	Eating & drinking places	201	28,031	114	24,506	816	5,612
59	Miscellaneous retail	415	59,052	141	53,352	285	3,454
	Finance, insurance and real estate industries (ex sub & dev)	205	25,468	34	17,854	200	2,807
60	Depository institutions	0	0	0	0	0	0
61	Nondepository credit institutions	6	93	1	D	0 to 19	D
62	Security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges, & services	0	0	0	0	0	0
63	Insurance carriers	0	0	0	0	0	0
64	Insurance agents, brokers, and services	29	1,537	5	D	20 to 99	D
65pt	Real estate (excluding subdividers and developers)	137	9,883	9	3,015	45	344
67	Holding and other investment offices, except trusts	33	13,955	19	13,619	132	2,199
	Service industries (exc membership org & private households)	2,411	243,867	454	210,438	5,081	85,153
70	Hotels, rooming houses, camps, & other lodging places	95	35,699	61	33,748	549	7,144
72	Personal services	494	20,327	55	13,234	246	3,053
73	Business services	459	53,578	97	47,179	2,516	25,033
75	Automotive repair, services, & parking	73	3,644	7	2,229	27	482
76	Miscellaneous repair services	45	D	1	D</