Industry · NAICS 21
Mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction
The United States has 23,360 employer establishments in mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction (0.7 per 10,000 residents), employing 553,036 people at an average annual pay of $115,081, plus 65,880 nonemployer businesses.
In the United States
- Establishments
- 23,360
- 65,880 nonemployers
- Per 10,000 residents
- 0.7
- Paid employees
- 553,036
- Average annual pay
- $115,081
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.
| # | Place | vs US | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ | 19,788,976 | 64 | 309,203 | 0 | 0.05× | 995 | $114,846 | 186 |
| 2 | Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD | 2,843,966 | 11 | 258,542 | 0 | 0.06× | 171 | $75,105 | 14 |
| 3 | Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL | 3,370,351 | 14 | 240,739 | 0 | 0.06× | 36 | $57,417 | 58 |
| 4 | Jacksonville, FL | 1,726,282 | 9 | 191,809 | 0.1 | 0.08× | 25 | $55,520 | 30 |
| 5 | Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV | 6,328,730 | 35 | 180,821 | 0.1 | 0.08× | 617 | $80,726 | 68 |
| 6 | Urban Honolulu, HI | 989,698 | 6 | 164,950 | 0.1 | 0.09× | 134 | $78,373 | 5 |
| 7 | San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA | 1,958,644 | 12 | 163,220 | 0.1 | 0.09× | 192 | $101,177 | 79 |
| 8 | San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA | 3,279,736 | 21 | 156,178 | 0.1 | 0.09× | 219 | $103,018 | 49 |
| 9 | San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA | 4,601,326 | 30 | 153,378 | 0.1 | 0.09× | 518 | $131,205 | 169 |
| 10 | Miami-Fort Lauderdale-West Palm Beach, FL | 6,353,900 | 42 | 151,283 | 0.1 | 0.10× | 828 | $100,641 | 190 |
| 11 | Atlanta-Sandy Springs-Roswell, GA | 6,333,350 | 45 | 140,741 | 0.1 | 0.10× | 1,106 | $108,420 | 88 |
| 12 | Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI | 4,356,818 | 36 | 121,023 | 0.1 | 0.12× | 377 | $91,610 | 211 |
| 13 | Bridgeport-Stamford-Danbury, CT | 962,351 | 8 | 120,294 | 0.1 | 0.12× | 31 | $124,871 | 20 |
| 14 | Fresno, CA | 1,188,936 | 10 | 118,894 | 0.1 | 0.12× | 136 | $104,603 | 34 |
| 15 | Winston-Salem, NC | 696,653 | 6 | 116,109 | 0.1 | 0.12× | 76 | $68,197 | 4 |
| 16 | Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA | 12,881,909 | 115 | 112,017 | 0.1 | 0.13× | 2,263 | $162,061 | 985 |
| 17 | Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN | 9,335,921 | 84 | 111,142 | 0.1 | 0.13× | 972 | $116,332 | 139 |
| 18 | Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH | 4,970,657 | 45 | 110,459 | 0.1 | 0.13× | 570 | $86,611 | 43 |
| 19 | Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL | 646,015 | 6 | 107,669 | 0.1 | 0.13× | 71 | $72,761 | 15 |
| 20 | Deltona-Daytona Beach-Ormond Beach, FL | 723,779 | 7 | 103,397 | 0.1 | 0.14× | 22 | $58,000 | 15 |
| 21 | Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC | 2,818,271 | 28 | 100,653 | 0.1 | 0.14× | 372 | $79,062 | 27 |
| 22 | Toledo, OH | 599,751 | 6 | 99,959 | 0.1 | 0.14× | 58 | $99,552 | — |
| 23 | Providence-Warwick, RI-MA | 1,687,365 | 17 | 99,257 | 0.1 | 0.15× | 191 | $89,241 | 13 |
| 24 | Springfield, MO | 491,446 | 5 | 98,289 | 0.1 | 0.15× | 103 | $68,398 | 9 |
| 25 | Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA | 4,707,448 | 48 | 98,072 | 0.1 | 0.15× | 1,219 | $99,572 | 95 |
1–25 of 269 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 $203.2M on contracts under NAICS 21 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (891 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).
Metro areas
- Fairbanks-College, AK$38.3M19%13 awards
- New Orleans-Metairie, LA$32.7M16%12 awards
- 15 awards
- Oklahoma City, OK$4.4M2.2%4 awards
- Manhattan, KS$3.5M1.7%10 awards
- Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX$3.1M1.5%24 awards
- Elizabethtown, KY$3.1M1.5%11 awards
- 8 awards
- East Stroudsburg, PA$2.4M1.2%1 award
- Tulsa, OK$2.2M1.1%29 awards
Counties
- Fairbanks North Star Borough, AK$38.3M19%13 awards
- Jefferson Parish, LA$30.6M15%7 awards
- North Slope Borough, AK$23.4M12%3 awards
- Montgomery County, MD$13.7M6.8%3 awards
- Oklahoma County, OK$4.4M2.2%4 awards
- Hardin County, KY$3.1M1.5%11 awards
- Harris County, TX$2.9M1.4%18 awards
- Geary County, KS$2.9M1.4%6 awards
- Monroe County, PA$2.4M1.2%1 award
- Tulsa County, OK$2.2M1.1%24 awards
Cities and towns
- Utqiaġvik city, AK$23.3M11%2 awards
- Fairbanks city, AK$20.1M9.9%6 awards
- Bethesda CDP, MD$13.7M6.7%1 award
- Eielson AFB CDP, AK$11.8M5.8%7 awards
- Elmwood CDP, LA$11.3M5.5%7 awards
- River Ridge CDP, LA$11.2M5.5%7 awards
- Harahan city, LA$8.1M4.0%7 awards
- Oklahoma City city, OK$4.4M2.2%4 awards
- New Orleans city, LA$2.1M1.0%5 awards
- San Diego city, CA$2M1.0%3 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)