Industry · NAICS 61

Educational services

The United States has 118,004 employer establishments in educational services (3.5 per 10,000 residents), employing 3,926,820 people at an average annual pay of $50,335, plus 924,679 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
118,004
924,679 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
3.5
Paid employees
3,926,820
Average annual pay
$50,335

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
Educational services by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Lumberton, NC118,005814,7510.70.19×96$32,750198
2Merced, CA294,3192114,0150.70.20×298$36,805276
3Cookeville, TN148,324159,88810.29×179$19,559243
4El Centro, CA180,683199,5101.10.30×402$24,378188
5Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,889169,4931.10.30×665$37,561262
6Gadsden, AL103,227119,3841.10.30×233$23,245177
7Cleveland, TN130,260149,3041.10.31×1,261$24,506277
8Homosassa Springs, FL166,667189,2591.10.31×67$40,254273
9Albertville, AL101,307119,2101.10.31×50$16,640165
10Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH368,327409,2081.10.31×402$24,236675
11Sevierville, TN100,410119,1281.10.31×189$32,952130
12Visalia, CA480,816539,0721.10.31×1,340$51,235657
13Pottsville, PA143,892168,9931.10.32×349$51,246151
14Lake Havasu City-Kingman, AZ223,586258,9431.10.32×552$39,353261
15Fond du Lac, WI104,349128,6961.10.33×1,198$25,145137
16Joplin, MO-KS204,948248,5401.20.33×744$23,272329
17Morristown, TN124,431158,2951.20.34×912$36,282207
18Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,197198,0631.20.35×223$29,969144
19Hickory-Lenoir-Morganton, NC370,164477,8761.30.36×1,228$33,381578
20Monroe, MI155,563207,7781.30.37×248$27,786312
21Ottawa, IL146,200197,6951.30.37×354$27,198188
22Albany, GA145,548197,6601.30.37×210$34,533417
23Yuma, AZ214,228287,6511.30.37×562$34,543338
24Dalton, GA145,315197,6481.30.37×74$33,689179
25Jackson, TN182,442247,6021.30.38×1,984$31,541401

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 $4.4B on contracts under NAICS 61 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (7,955 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$519.7M12%
    1,504 awards
  2. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$358.2M8.2%
    115 awards
  3. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ$256.5M5.9%
    157 awards
  4. Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC$153.2M3.5%
    268 awards
  5. Ozark, AL$108.3M2.5%
    7 awards
  6. Sierra Vista-Douglas, AZ$82.5M1.9%
    14 awards
  7. San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX$71.2M1.6%
    96 awards
  8. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$71M1.6%
    153 awards
  9. Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ$54.4M1.2%
    79 awards
  10. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$54M1.2%
    145 awards

Counties

  1. Tarrant County, TX$270.5M6.2%
    34 awards
  2. District of Columbia, DC$247M5.7%
    592 awards
  3. Middlesex County, NJ$219.3M5.0%
    12 awards
  4. Fairfax County, VA$123.6M2.8%
    228 awards
  5. Hampton city, VA$108.7M2.5%
    28 awards
  6. Dale County, AL$108.3M2.5%
    7 awards
  7. Cochise County, AZ$82.5M1.9%
    14 awards
  8. Bexar County, TX$70.6M1.6%
    94 awards
  9. Vernon Parish, LA$68.6M1.6%
    3 awards
  10. San Diego County, CA$50.9M1.2%
    130 awards

Cities and towns

  1. Washington city, DC$247M5.7%
    592 awards
  2. Fort Worth city, TX$113.8M2.6%
    24 awards
  3. Hampton city, VA$108.7M2.5%
    28 awards
  4. Sierra Vista city, AZ$82.5M1.9%
    13 awards
  5. Princeton Meadows CDP, NJ$55.1M1.3%
    1 award
  6. Augusta-Richmond County consolidated government (balance), GA$41M0.9%
    31 awards
  7. Wolf Trap CDP, VA$40.5M0.9%
    38 awards
  8. San Antonio city, TX$34.5M0.8%
    70 awards
  9. White Settlement city, TX$34.4M0.8%
    3 awards
  10. Los Angeles city, CA$33M0.8%
    53 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)