County by the Numbers
Small County Economic Data: Why Size Doesn’t Limit Value
County Business Patterns covers every county in the United States. All of them. A county of 4,000 residents appears in the same federal dataset as Los Angeles, updated on the…
Read MoreCounty Manufacturing Employment Data: A Practical Guide
Manufacturing pays more per worker than almost any other private sector, which makes county manufacturing employment data one of the most useful numbers a county leader can track. A single…
Read MoreCounty Healthcare Employment: What the Data Shows
Healthcare is the largest employer in many American counties. It’s also one of the most consequential sectors for county government because counties often run hospitals, health departments, and behavioral health…
Read MoreHow County Leaders Use Census Data for Budget Decisions
Most counties make budget decisions with one major data gap: a reliable, annually updated picture of what’s actually happening in the local economy. The Census Bureau’s County Business Patterns program…
Read MoreCounty Economic Data: A Guide to Business Patterns
When a site selector calls your county economic development office with questions about local workforce size, they expect a data-backed answer. When a state legislator asks how county payroll has…
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