Industry · NAICS 81

Other services (except public administration)

The United States has 807,804 employer establishments in other services (except public administration) (24 per 10,000 residents), employing 5,616,494 people at an average annual pay of $43,492, plus 3,352,476 nonemployer businesses.

In the United States

Establishments
807,804
3,352,476 nonemployers
Per 10,000 residents
24
Paid employees
5,616,494
Average annual pay
$43,492

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
Other services (except public administration) by residents per establishment
#Placevs US
1Merced, CA294,3192881,0229.80.41×1,691$35,3841,814
2McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX901,096903998100.42×5,872$33,31911,449
3Wildwood-The Villages, FL151,88915399310.10.42×894$30,262992
4Hanford-Corcoran, CA153,19716394010.60.44×732$33,786854
5Laredo, TX271,942327832120.50×2,506$40,1483,290
6El Centro, CA180,68322480712.40.52×1,178$34,7281,170
7Brownsville-Harlingen, TX428,90655477412.90.54×3,288$29,6664,544
8Visalia, CA480,81663775513.20.55×3,688$38,9333,244
9Bakersfield-Delano, CA917,5991,23274513.40.56×8,146$40,4937,301
10Yuma, AZ214,22830570214.20.59×1,787$33,2001,595
11Yuba City, CA184,40226370114.30.59×1,306$37,0781,258
12Corbin, KY149,59321469914.30.60×1,013$30,9901,478
13Provo-Orem-Lehi, UT739,1161,08568114.70.61×6,194$38,9636,708
14Las Cruces, NM225,96633467714.80.62×1,793$31,9821,518
15Show Low, AZ109,19716267414.80.62×827$33,810663
16El Paso, TX876,6411,32666115.10.63×8,009$31,7928,877
17Stockton-Lodi, CA806,0551,23165515.30.64×8,090$40,5056,461
18Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA199,49730964615.50.65×3,151$47,4502,019
19Fresno, CA1,188,9361,84764415.50.65×15,113$37,5458,769
20Jacksonville, NC210,95533063915.60.65×1,951$30,6611,899
21Warner Robins, GA200,73031962915.90.66×1,988$31,7763,142
22Monroe, MI155,563249625160.67×1,473$30,8491,223
23Anderson Creek, NC141,77223161416.30.68×969$31,4361,352
24Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA4,707,4487,68861216.30.68×52,842$41,12347,862
25Las Vegas-Henderson-North Las Vegas, NV2,351,0083,90060316.60.69×28,335$41,47928,576

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 $3.7B on contracts under NAICS 81 in fiscal year 2026, nationwide (20,798 awards, each counted once per county where it was performed).

Metro areas

  1. Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV$653.6M18%
    2,154 awards
  2. San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA$345.6M9.4%
    528 awards
  3. Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH$254.8M6.9%
    473 awards
  4. Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX$156.5M4.2%
    273 awards
  5. Warner Robins, GA$101.1M2.7%
    89 awards
  6. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI$82.2M2.2%
    117 awards
  7. Ogden, UT$77.5M2.1%
    87 awards
  8. Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD$69.7M1.9%
    464 awards
  9. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI$68M1.8%
    183 awards
  10. Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL$65.1M1.8%
    228 awards

Counties

  1. San Diego County, CA$345.6M9.4%
    528 awards
  2. Fairfax County, VA$335.2M9.1%
    183 awards
  3. Middlesex County, MA$215.7M5.8%
    287 awards
  4. Tarrant County, TX$146.8M4.0%
    143 awards
  5. Lake County, MT$136.4M3.7%
    2 awards
  6. District of Columbia, DC$103.4M2.8%
    619 awards
  7. Houston County, GA$101.1M2.7%
    89 awards
  8. Loudoun County, VA$90.9M2.5%
    32 awards
  9. Montgomery County, MD$81.2M2.2%
    951 awards
  10. Macomb County, MI$76.3M2.1%
    21 awards

Cities and towns

  1. San Diego city, CA$316.9M8.6%
    383 awards
  2. Reston CDP, VA$277.2M7.5%
    32 awards
  3. Woburn city, MA$188.3M5.1%
    24 awards
  4. Washington city, DC$103.4M2.8%
    619 awards
  5. Sterling Heights city, MI$76.1M2.1%
    15 awards
  6. Fort Worth city, TX$65.8M1.8%
    132 awards
  7. Jacksonville city, FL$60M1.6%
    76 awards
  8. Ashburn CDP, VA$57.4M1.6%
    18 awards
  9. Edina city, MN$53.1M1.4%
    9 awards
  10. Warner Robins city, GA$42M1.1%
    89 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)