economy_self_employment_county_year_naics
Census Nonemployer Statistics by 2-digit NAICS sector: nonemployer establishments and receipts per county, year, and sector. Tier A. 2019-2023. Complements CBP (employer establishments) and QCEW (payroll employment). 2022 methodology break — do not compute YoY change across 2021-2022.
tier aTier A: Census administrative records from IRS. Small-cell suppression applied.
overview
overview
~259,000 county-year-NAICS rows. Census Nonemployer Statistics covering establishments with no paid employees.
current vintage — 2023
history — Yes — 2019–2023 in current load
provenance
source & licensing
authority
U.S. Census Bureau
dataset
Census Bureau Nonemployer Statistics (NES, 2019-2023)
license
Public domain (U.S. Federal Government work)
citation
U.S. Census Bureau (2025). Nonemployer Statistics (NES).
schema
fields
| name | type | definition |
|---|---|---|
| country_idkey | string | ISO alpha-2 country code. Always US. |
| county_idkey | string | 5-character county FIPS code. |
| county_name | string | Human-readable county name corresponding to county_id. |
| establishments | int64 | Count of nonemployer businesses in the county and NAICS sector. |
| methodology_era | string | pre_2022 for years <=2021; 2022_plus for years >=2022. |
| naics_label | string | Human-readable NAICS sector label. |
| naics_sectorkey | string | 2-digit NAICS sector code (e.g. 11, 23, 31-33, 44-45). Census groups some sectors into ranges. |
| naics_vintage | string | NAICS edition used for this year: 2017 (years 2019-2021) or 2022 (years 2022+). |
| receipts_thousands | int64 | Total annual receipts in nominal $1,000s for this county-sector-year. |
| state_idkey | string | 2-character state FIPS code. |
| yearkey | int64 | Reference year of the observation. |
relationships
joins
primary key
county_id, state_id, country_id, year, naics_sector
common joins
economy_self_employment_county_year on (county_id, year)
usage
how to use this table
method
Receipts and establishment counts by NAICS sector from Census NES program.
do not use for
Employer-side labor market analysis — NES covers nonemployers only.
← previousus_economy.economy_self_employment_county_yearnext →us_economy.economy_tax_filer_income_county_year
last updated · Jul 7, 2026