Industry · NAICS 11

Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting

The United States has 22,752 employer establishments in agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting (0.7 per 10,000 residents), employing 161,334 people at an average annual pay of $56,903, plus 255,425 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
22,752
255,425 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
0.7
Paid employees
161,334
Average annual pay
$56,903

Places ranked by residents per establishment

Places ranked by residents per establishment: more residents for each business, fewer competitors per resident. A count, not a measure of demand: retirement areas, low incomes or tourism change what a business needs.

Places
State
Size
Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,351,00823102,2180.10.14×142$50,704286
2New Haven, CT572,366695,3940.10.16×17$21,588121
3Albuquerque, NM922,5441092,2540.10.16×20$66,300404
4Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN2,281,0962687,7340.10.17×102$25,275803
5Tulsa, OK1,048,2541287,3550.10.17×41$68,512644
6Knoxville, TN947,5251186,1390.10.17×67$37,701454
7Salt Lake City-Murray, UT1,287,7751585,8520.10.17×46$18,239289
8Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN9,335,92111382,6190.10.18×507$54,9351,379
9El Paso, TX876,6411179,6950.10.19×147$38,184182
10Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA12,881,90916578,0720.10.19×939$48,6561,529
11Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY1,156,8691577,1250.10.19×43$38,674284
12Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX7,587,64610572,2630.10.20×377$51,9393,299
13Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX8,164,14011670,3810.10.21×458$51,5702,523
14New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ19,788,97628469,6790.10.21×989$50,8132,882
15Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin, TN2,116,7863168,2830.10.22×341$99,487974
16Rockford, IL335,084567,0170.10.22×25$45,640100
17Toledo, OH599,751966,6390.20.22×86$64,000220
18Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT1,158,1941864,3440.20.23×46$24,174374
19Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX2,498,8093964,0720.20.23×161$40,267818
20Columbus, OH2,192,1643660,8930.20.24×182$27,874872
21Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI4,356,8187260,5110.20.24×519$47,8211,039
22Wichita, KS654,0571159,4600.20.25×31$30,742405
23Chattanooga, TN-GA582,5361058,2540.20.25×514$21,669308
24Flint, MI401,351757,3360.20.26×33$44,606153
25Scranton--Wilkes-Barre, PA570,8531057,0850.20.26×176$62,176195

1–25 of 342 places

Sources: County Business Patterns (2023); Nonemployer Statistics (2024).

  • Residents per establishment is the place's population estimate for 2023 divided by its establishments; more residents per business means fewer competitors per resident. Places with fewer than the minimum establishments are left out because a handful of businesses makes the ratio jump around.
  • Metro areas are made of whole counties and their figures are the exact sums of those counties'. A metro area is listed under its principal state.
  • This compares counts of businesses with counts of residents. It does not measure demand, spending power, visitors, the size or quality of the businesses, or whether a market is open. Employment and payroll carry the Census Bureau's noise infusion.
  • County Business Patterns 2023 uses NAICS 2017 codes; the nonemployer figures use NAICS 2022. Industries are matched by name between editions.
  • Growth needs a second reference year of County Business Patterns in the same industry classification; only 2023 is loaded, so there is no growth column yet.

Federal contracts in this industry

Federal agencies obligated $1.4B on contracts under NAICS 11 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (12,653 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Wenatchee-East Wenatchee, WA$68.3M5.0%
    744 awards
  2. Hermiston-Pendleton, OR$58.3M4.2%
    799 awards
  3. Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA$46.3M3.4%
    542 awards
  4. Asheville, NC$39M2.8%
    84 awards
  5. Medford, OR$36.1M2.6%
    286 awards
  6. Stockton-Lodi, CA$32.3M2.3%
    3 awards
  7. Baker City, OR$29.6M2.1%
    359 awards
  8. Bend, OR$29.4M2.1%
    366 awards
  9. Montrose, CO$28.9M2.1%
    335 awards
  10. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ$26.3M1.9%
    70 awards

Counties

  1. Chelan County, WA$68.3M5.0%
    744 awards
  2. Umatilla County, OR$56.9M4.1%
    796 awards
  3. Buncombe County, NC$38.9M2.8%
    80 awards
  4. Jackson County, OR$36.1M2.6%
    286 awards
  5. Clackamas County, OR$32.5M2.4%
    352 awards
  6. San Joaquin County, CA$32.3M2.3%
    3 awards
  7. Baker County, OR$29.6M2.1%
    359 awards
  8. Montrose County, CO$28.9M2.1%
    335 awards
  9. Sevier County, UT$24.8M1.8%
    323 awards
  10. Lake County, OR$21.5M1.6%
    264 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Asheville city, NC$30.9M2.2%
    77 awards
  2. Phoenix city, AZ$18.7M1.4%
    63 awards
  3. Fairbanks city, AK$13.4M1.0%
    11 awards
  4. Lakewood city, CO$12.7M0.9%
    100 awards
  5. Medford city, OR$11.9M0.9%
    275 awards
  6. Duluth city, MN$10.6M0.8%
    129 awards
  7. Boise City city, ID$10.4M0.8%
    432 awards
  8. Vancouver city, WA$8.2M0.6%
    132 awards
  9. Tulsa city, OK$6.6M0.5%
    9 awards
  10. Roanoke city, VA$6.6M0.5%
    41 awards

Where the work was performed, as agencies report it (often the contractor's office). Metro areas are the exact sums of their counties. Cities are estimated: each action's county money split by the share of its ZIP code's land inside the city, so a city's figure is part of its county's.

USAspending.gov, prime award contract transactions (FPDS)