Industry · NAICS 2383

Building finishing contractors

The United States has 128,009 employer establishments in building finishing contractors (3.8 per 10,000 residents), employing 863,952 people at an average annual pay of $60,715, plus 678,091 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
128,009
678,091 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
3.8
Paid employees
863,952
Average annual pay
$60,715

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
Building finishing contractors by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1El Centro, CA180,683920,0760.50.13×119$35,655142
2Brownsville-Harlingen, TX428,9062219,4960.50.13×89$33,5961,061
3McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,0965815,5360.60.17×274$38,9052,832
4Laredo, TX271,9421815,1080.70.17×43$37,535695
5Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,1971113,9270.70.19×69$71,10190
6Weirton-Steubenville, WV-OH113,680912,6310.80.21×78$48,89798
7Corbin, KY149,5931212,4660.80.21×79$46,177292
8Anniston-Oxford, AL116,3411011,6340.90.23×38$36,737171
9Salem, OH100,0601010,00610.26×56$48,714174
10Wheeling, WV-OH135,690159,0461.10.29×188$47,420157
11Gadsden, AL103,227128,6021.20.31×85$54,459252
12Beckley, WV111,564138,5821.20.31×35$37,91495
13Rome, GA100,193128,3491.20.32×56$70,268188
14Monroe, MI155,563198,1881.20.32×96$64,406254
15Terre Haute, IN168,539218,0261.20.33×89$48,348158
16Pottsville, PA143,892187,9941.30.33×39$42,308185
17Elizabethtown, KY127,637167,9771.30.33×81$46,901188
18Lawton, OK127,338167,9591.30.33×87$27,184—
19Odessa, TX165,946217,9021.30.33×228$69,539445
20Charleston, WV202,801267,8001.30.34×156$57,256138
21Sherman-Denison, TX147,072197,7411.30.34×127$57,417343
22Fayetteville, NC392,345527,5451.30.35×389$54,979515
23Auburn-Opelika, AL202,368277,4951.30.35×145$56,462283
24El Paso, TX876,6411187,4291.30.35×1,077$36,5382,276
25Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH368,327517,2221.40.36×415$64,612431

1–25 of 398 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 $141.1M on contracts under NAICS 2383 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (1,557 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$36.8M26%
    163 awards
  2. Green Bay, WI$11.6M8.2%
    101 awards
  3. Ogden, UT$6.3M4.5%
    29 awards
  4. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$5.5M3.9%
    29 awards
  5. Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA$3.6M2.6%
    16 awards
  6. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$3.4M2.4%
    5 awards
  7. Massena-Ogdensburg, NY$2.7M1.9%
    2 awards
  8. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$2.4M1.7%
    24 awards
  9. Oklahoma City, OK$2.3M1.6%
    14 awards
  10. Bakersfield-Delano, CA$2.3M1.6%
    8 awards

Counties

  1. District of Columbia, DC$31.2M22%
    108 awards
  2. Brown County, WI$11.6M8.2%
    101 awards
  3. Davis County, UT$6.3M4.5%
    29 awards
  4. Morris County, NJ$4M2.9%
    7 awards
  5. Pierce County, WA$3.6M2.5%
    12 awards
  6. Dallas County, TX$3.1M2.2%
    4 awards
  7. St. Lawrence County, NY$2.7M1.9%
    2 awards
  8. Oklahoma County, OK$2.3M1.6%
    14 awards
  9. Kern County, CA$2.3M1.6%
    8 awards
  10. Bernalillo County, NM$2M1.4%
    11 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Washington city, DC$31.2M22%
    108 awards
  2. Green Bay city, WI$10.8M7.6%
    101 awards
  3. Dallas city, TX$3M2.2%
    2 awards
  4. Oklahoma City city, OK$2.3M1.6%
    14 awards
  5. Arlington CDP, VA$1.8M1.3%
    14 awards
  6. Irvine city, CA$1.8M1.3%
    1 award
  7. Amarillo city, TX$1.6M1.1%
    2 awards
  8. Baltimore city, MD$1.6M1.1%
    8 awards
  9. San Antonio city, TX$1.2M0.9%
    11 awards
  10. Jacksonville city, FL$1.2M0.8%
    5 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)