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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)			127,467	63,626,180	31,539	59,925,775	447,772	10,830,416
	Total minorities			2,822	401,278	656	331,753	3,990	69,518
		Black		257	28,088	36	23,600	346	6,871
		Hispanic		545	51,941	139	46,004	677	9,895
			Cuban	27	D	6	D	0 to 19	D
			Mexican Mexican American, Chicano	71	D	16	D	250 to 499	D
			Puerto Rican	76	8,303	28	7,509	79	1,169
			Spaniard	105	D	30	4,933	67	1,543
			Hispanic Latin American	71	7,214	14	D	20 to 99	D
			Other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino	195	17,321	44	15,367	150	2,648
		American Indian and Alaska Natives		1,417	160,997	204	117,439	867	19,272
		Asian and Pacific Islander		646	161,544	279	145,392	2,102	33,536
			Asian Indian	66	42,249	42	42,123	492	10,573
			Chinese	204	46,010	136	43,190	1,194	13,156
			Filipino	96	6,401	36	5,166	102	1,595
			Japanese	38	D	3	D	20 to 99	D
			Korean	58	33,307	4	D	20 to 99	D
			Vietnamese	75	D	5	D	0 to 19	D
			Other Asian	105	23,946	49	22,177	189	5,070
			Hawaiian	4	D	3	D	0 to 19	D
			Other Pacific Islander	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Women			30,598	3,212,307	4,483	2,589,152	28,263	490,654

 

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	127,467	63,626,180	31,539	59,925,775	447,772	10,830,416
	Agricultural services, forestry, and fishing	9,638	D	758	D	2,500 to 4,999	D
07	Agricultural services	2,700	224,220	592	170,828	2,314	52,411
08	Forestry	515	D	50	D	250 to 499	D
09	Fishing, hunting, and trapping	6,423	D	116	D	500 to 999	D
	Mineral Industries	154	D	22	D	20 to 99	D
10	Metal mining	2	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
12	Coal mining	1	D	0	0	0	0
13	Oil & gas extraction	66	D	0	0	0	0
14	Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels	85	D	21	D	20 to 99	D
	Construction industries and subdividers and developers	17,610	3,373,705	4,400	2,867,916	24,139	663,210
15	Building construction--general contractors & operative builders	3,102	1,013,610	1,295	889,681	5,415	129,648
16	Heavy construction other than buildings construction--contractors	523	679,296	254	668,903	4,974	170,962
17	Construction--special trade contractors	13,732	1,650,269	2,820	1,296,552	13,674	359,495
6552	Subdividers and developers n.e.c.(ex cemeteries)	254	30,530	32	12,780	76	3,105
	Manufacturing	7,642	15,887,993	2,310	15,699,054	90,986	2,883,954
20	Food & kindred products	299	1,187,521	151	1,183,079	6,329	150,616
21	Tobacco products	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Textile mill products	68	604,817	50	604,690	5,326	122,580
23	Apparel & other textile products	330	147,168	76	143,558	2,070	34,829
24	Lumber & wood products	3,834	1,915,532	751	1,788,047	11,269	275,428
25	Furniture & fixtures	275	163,248	60	157,885	1,569	42,890
26	Paper & allied products	52	4,970,884	35	4,970,030	15,923	763,262
27	Printing & publishing	704	546,326	315	534,234	5,968	164,108
28	Chemicals & allied products	55	350,917	47	D	1,000 to 2,499	D
29	Petroleum & coal products	7	47,828	7	47,828	366	11,447
30	Rubber & miscellaneous plastics products	56	613,994	48	613,711	4,239	108,794
31	Leather & leather products	67	943,942	36	943,230	6,498	157,612
32	Stone, clay, & glass products	290	165,462	86	162,017	1,321	36,555
33	Primary metal industries	22	71,626	12	D	500 to 999	D
34	Fabricated metal products	353	486,011	135	479,019	3,523	103,274
35	Industrial machinery & equipment	384	628,639	209	622,914	4,514	152,614
36	Electronic & other electric equipment	96	1,095,967	56	1,095,106	6,672	230,107
37	Transportation equipment	163	1,778,129	136	1,776,466	11,341	401,660
38	Instruments & related products	29	63,961	18	D	500 to 999	D
39	Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	581	106,021	105	93,359	1,093	24,063
	Transportation, communications, & utilities	5,395	3,875,339	1,748	3,704,048	20,582	616,777
41	Local and interurban passenger transportation	348	D	116	D	1,000 to 2,499	D
42	Motor freight transportation & warehousing	3,360	880,886	1,009	743,661	7,037	178,188
44	Water transportation	271	96,008	176	92,938	873	23,000
45	Transportation by air	109	84,918	47	82,965	811	20,949
46	Pipelines, except natural gas	1	D	1	D	20 to 99	D
47	Transportation services	512	70,174	175	61,518	937	18,563
48	Communications	309	891,026	124	882,937	4,779	169,341
49	Electric, gas, & sanitary services	487	1,771,769	102	1,764,519	4,215	183,560
	Wholesale trade	3,717	8,105,349	1,828	7,963,791	24,455	742,017
50	Wholesale trade - durable goods	2,092	3,230,019	1,067	3,160,005	12,085	382,544
51	Wholesale trade - nondurable goods	1,630	4,875,330	766	4,803,786	12,370	359,473
	Retail trade	18,816	13,656,637	7,759	13,276,775	109,797	1,583,703
52	Building materials, hardware, garden supply, & mobile home dlr	671	863,051	433	847,486	4,542	95,539
53	General merchandise stores	414	1,402,417	242	1,393,279	11,447	130,259
54	Food stores	1,673	2,619,805	1,135	2,578,655	20,394	269,506
55	Automotive dealers & gasoline service stations	1,753	3,703,971	970	3,626,721	13,025	282,512
56	Apparel and accessory stores	640	638,558	332	629,800	6,809	116,119
57	Home furniture, furnishings, & equipment stores	857	438,897	509	419,303	3,048	55,814
58	Eating & drinking places	3,068	1,060,300	2,419	1,039,265	32,681	312,660
59	Miscellaneous retail	9,811	2,929,638	1,790	2,742,266	17,851	321,294
	Finance, insurance and real estate industries (ex sub & dev)	9,162	7,927,142	1,998	7,436,870	26,753	918,201
60	Depository institutions	151	1,735,254	146	1,734,383	9,201	258,901
61	Nondepository credit institutions	76	133,302	49	D	250 to 499	D
62	Security & commodity brokers, dealers, exchanges, & services	319	160,231	122	D	1,000 to 2,499	D
63	Insurance carriers	78	4,388,588	70	4,388,364	8,007	354,598
64	Insurance agents, brokers, and services	1,547	355,344	528	324,895	3,979	120,981
65pt	Real estate (excluding subdividers and developers)	6,654	791,150	1,023	399,819	3,745	75,334
67	Holding and other investment offices, except trusts	367	363,273	90	335,777	465	25,760
	Service industries (exc membership org & private households)	48,608	10,052,151	10,824	8,685,207	147,711	3,342,820
70	Hotels, rooming houses, camps, & other lodging places	1,832	485,651	989	450,329	7,865	117,205
72	Personal services	6,783	272,035	759	180,747	4,373	57,538
73	Business services	10,123	1,254,230	1,398	1,091,925	21,546	407,344
75	Automotive repair, services, & parking	3,056	495,843	918	413,104	4,513	87,486
76	Miscellaneous repair services	1,531	160,465	311	130,829	1,500	37,347
78	Motion pictures	353	76,264	171	71,616	1,282	11,483
79	Amusement and recreation services	3,567	281,041	637	239,447	6,655	73,695
80	Health services	5,198	4,329,525	2,122	3,639,912	58,897	1,594,546
81	Legal services	1,331	387,732	707	365,419	3,854	147,947
82	Educational services	1,671	548,688	320	534,432	9,084	175,433
83	Social services	5,184	670,121	1,056	613,756	16,589	268,575
84	Museums, art galleries, & botanical & zoological gardens	77	23,204	75	D	250 to 499	D
87	Eng, acctg, research, mgt, & rel serv	6,931	998,407	1,340	873,573	10,881	346,613
89	Services, n.e.c.	1,049	68,945	99	D	250 to 499	D
	Industries not classified	6,976	D	143	D	20 to 99	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	2,822	401,278	656	331,753	3,990	69,518
	Agricultural services, forestry, and fishing	247	D	25	D	20 to 99	D
07	Agricultural services	66	9,059	24	D	20 to 99	D
08	Forestry	8	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
09	Fishing, hunting, and trapping	172	D	0	0	0	0
	Mineral Industries	3	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
10	Metal mining	0	0	0	0	0	0
12	Coal mining	1	D	0	0	0	0
13	Oil & gas extraction	1	D	0	0	0	0
14	Nonmetallic minerals, except fuels	1	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
	Construction industries and subdividers and developers	222	50,854	51	46,904	312	9,683
15	Building construction--general contractors & operative builders	11	D	5	D	20 to 99	D
16	Heavy construction other than buildings construction--contractors	8	D	4	D	100 to 249	D
17	Construction--special trade contractors	201	15,535	42	11,811	132	2,555
6552	Subdividers and developers n.e.c.(ex cemeteries)	2	D	0	0	0	0
	Manufacturing	169	82,741	35	77,740	670	15,321
20	Food & kindred products	3	D	3	D	0 to 19	D
21	Tobacco products	0	0	0	0	0	0
22	Textile mill products	6	D	4	D	0 to 19	D
23	Apparel & other textile products	4	D	1	D	20 to 99	D
24	Lumber & wood products	94	D	9	D	0 to 19	D
25	Furniture & fixtures	15	D	0	0	0	0
26	Paper & allied products	1	D	0	0	0	0
27	Printing & publishing	12	D	2	D	100 to 249	D
28	Chemicals & allied products	1	D	1	D	20 to 99	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	2	D	1	D	250 to 499	D
32	Stone, clay, & glass products	0	0	0	0	0	0
33	Primary metal industries	0	0	0	0	0	0
34	Fabricated metal products	12	D	1	D	20 to 99	D
35	Industrial machinery & equipment	12	D	12	D	0 to 19	D
36	Electronic & other electric equipment	0	0	0	0	0	0
37	Transportation equipment	4	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
38	Instruments & related products	0	0	0	0	0	0
39	Miscellaneous manufacturing industries	3	D	0	0	0	0
	Transportation, communications, & utilities	84	D	14	D	100 to 249	D
41	Local and interurban passenger transportation	22	D	0	0	0	0
42	Motor freight transportation & warehousing	55	3,893	10	D	20 to 99	D
44	Water transportation	1	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
45	Transportation by air	2	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
46	Pipelines, except natural gas	0	0	0	0	0	0
47	Transportation services	1	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
48	Communications	2	D	1	D	20 to 99	D
49	Electric, gas, & sanitary services	0	0	0	0	0	0
	Wholesale trade	46	51,328	12	D	100 to 249	D
50	Wholesale trade - durable goods	30	D	3	D	100 to 249	D
51	Wholesale trade - nondurable goods	16	D	9	D	20 to 99	D
	Retail trade	377	91,193	245	88,826	1,966	19,858
52	Building materials, hardware, garden supply, & mobile home dlr	0	0	0	0	0	0
53	General merchandise stores	2	D	2	D	20 to 99	D
54	Food stores	9	D	6	D	20 to 99	D
55	Automotive dealers & gasoline service stations	15	D	7	D	20 to 99	D
56	Apparel and accessory stores	S	S	S	S	S	S
57	Home furniture, furnishings, & equipment stores	2	D	1	D	0 to 19	D
58	Eating & drinking places	201	57,937	195	D	1,000 to 2,499	D
59	Miscellaneous retail	113	4,209	16	D	20 to 99	D
	Finance, insurance and real estate industries (ex sub & dev)	61	D	12	D	20 to 99	D
60	Depository institutions	0	0	0	0	0	0
61	Nondepository credit institutions	0	0	0	0	0	0
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	10	D	7	D	0 to 19	D
65pt	Real estate (excluding subdividers and developers)	44	D	5	D	0 to 19	D
67	Holding and other investment offices, except trusts	7	D	0	0	0	0
	Service industries (exc membership org & private households)	774	52,005	166	36,859	580	13,286
70	Hotels, rooming houses, camps, & other lodging places	25	D