Official statistics
How large is each industry in Florida? The table shows the number of businesses in the 15 industries of the Florida Business Database: businesses with paid employees (County Business Patterns 2023) plus businesses without paid employees (Nonemployer Statistics 2024), both from the U.S. Census Bureau. These are official statistics, not counts from our own dataset.
Sources: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023; U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2024; local government: 2022 Census of Governments · Content last revised: October 13, 2026
Industries are sorted by the total. “Codes” are the codes summed for the industry: County Business Patterns 2023 uses the 2017 edition of NAICS and Nonemployer Statistics 2024 the 2022 edition, so a few codes differ between the two and from the NAICS 2022 codes on the industry pages.
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| Industry | Codes | With employees (CBP 2023) | Without employees (NES 2024) | Total | Share of state | County with the most |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Professional and Business Services | CBP 54, 56 + NES 54, 56 | 137,237 | 824,225 | 961,462 | 23.6% | Miami-Dade (215,080) |
| Healthcare and Wellness | CBP 62, 8121 + NES 62, 8121 | 87,196 | 447,779 | 534,975 | 13.1% | Miami-Dade (127,320) |
| Transportation and Logistics | CBP 48-49 + NES 48-49 | 20,621 | 505,811 | 526,432 | 12.9% | Miami-Dade (140,045) |
| Construction and Trades | CBP 23 + NES 23 | 68,008 | 338,513 | 406,521 | 10.0% | Miami-Dade (91,639) |
| Real Estate and Property Management | CBP 531 + NES 531 | 43,189 | 346,604 | 389,793 | 9.6% | Miami-Dade (85,921) |
| Hospitality, Restaurants and Tourism | CBP 72, 5615 + NES 72, 5615 | 50,698 | 93,318 | 144,016 | 3.5% | Miami-Dade (30,805) |
| Finance and Insurance | CBP 52 + NES 52 | 36,230 | 102,052 | 138,282 | 3.4% | Miami-Dade (27,714) |
| Automotive and Auto Repair | CBP 441, 8111 + NES 441, 8111 | 20,272 | 73,977 | 94,249 | 2.3% | Miami-Dade (22,084) |
| Manufacturing | CBP 31-33 + NES 31-33 | 14,341 | 38,899 | 53,240 | 1.3% | Miami-Dade (12,667) |
| IT and Software | CBP 5112, 5415, 518 + NES 5415, 518 | 12,569 | 36,436 | 49,005 | 1.2% | Miami-Dade (9,391) |
| Architecture and Engineering | CBP 5413 + NES 5413 | 10,133 | 21,845 | 31,978 | 0.8% | Miami-Dade (5,725) |
| Agriculture and Food | CBP 11, 311 + NES 11, 311 | 2,541 | 23,567 | 26,108 | 0.6% | Miami-Dade (4,476) |
| Utilities and Waste Services | CBP 22, 562 + NES 22, 562 | 2,955 | 4,651 | 7,606 | 0.2% | Miami-Dade (1,173) |
| E-commerce and Online Retail | CBP 4541 | 5,874 | no code | 5,874 | 0.1% | Miami-Dade (1,031) |
“No code”: Nonemployer Statistics 2024 is classified by NAICS 2022, which has no industry for online retailers, so E-commerce counts employers only. Local Government and Public Institutions is in neither series. For it, the 2022 Census of Governments counts 1,947 local government units in Florida (counties, municipalities, special districts and school districts). Indicative NAICS 2022 codes of every industry: Professional and Business Services 54, 56; Construction and Trades 23; Manufacturing 31-33; Real Estate and Property Management 531; Utilities and Waste Services 22, 562; Hospitality, Restaurants and Tourism 72, 5615; Agriculture and Food 11, 311; Transportation and Logistics 48-49; IT and Software 5132, 5415, 518; Architecture and Engineering 5413; Healthcare and Wellness 62, 8121; Finance and Insurance 52; Local Government and Public Institutions 92; Automotive and Auto Repair 441, 8111; E-commerce and Online Retail 44-45.
For comparison, the same two files by NAICS sector, from largest to smallest. Counted this way, transportation and warehousing is the largest sector, mainly because of taxi and ridesharing drivers and couriers without employees.
| NAICS | Sector | With employees | Without employees | Total | Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 48-49 | Transportation and warehousing | 20,621 | 505,811 | 526,432 | 12.9% |
| 54 | Professional, scientific and technical services | 94,623 | 394,826 | 489,449 | 12.0% |
| 56 | Administrative, support and waste services | 42,614 | 429,399 | 472,013 | 11.6% |
| 81 | Other services | 55,496 | 387,936 | 443,432 | 10.9% |
| 53 | Real estate and rental and leasing | 47,772 | 360,409 | 408,181 | 10.0% |
| 23 | Construction | 68,008 | 338,513 | 406,521 | 10.0% |
| 62 | Health care and social assistance | 73,984 | 284,555 | 358,539 | 8.8% |
| 44-45 | Retail trade | 75,988 | 194,347 | 270,335 | 6.6% |
| 71 | Arts, entertainment and recreation | 11,208 | 128,669 | 139,877 | 3.4% |
| 52 | Finance and insurance | 36,230 | 102,052 | 138,282 | 3.4% |
| 72 | Accommodation and food services | 48,853 | 79,994 | 128,847 | 3.2% |
| 42 | Wholesale trade | 30,723 | 54,661 | 85,384 | 2.1% |
| 61 | Educational services | 8,805 | 73,482 | 82,287 | 2.0% |
| 31-33 | Manufacturing | 14,341 | 38,899 | 53,240 | 1.3% |
| 51 | Information | 10,336 | 35,383 | 45,719 | 1.1% |
| 11 | Forestry, fishing and agricultural support | 1,227 | 15,595 | 16,822 | 0.4% |
| 22 | Utilities | 1,136 | 2,081 | 3,217 | 0.1% |
| 55 | Management of companies | 2,682 | 0 | 2,682 | 0.1% |
| 21 | Mining | 255 | 729 | 984 | 0.0% |
| 99 | Unclassified | 673 | 0 | 673 | 0.0% |
Nonemployer Statistics has no figures for management of companies (55), and “unclassified” (99) exists only in County Business Patterns. Employer figures by county are on the page Florida businesses by county.
Of our 15 industries, Professional and Business Services is the largest, with 961,462 businesses: 137,237 with paid employees in 2023 and 824,225 without in 2024. The smallest is E-commerce and Online Retail, with 5,874. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 + Nonemployer Statistics 2024.
No. Some industries share codes: NAICS 56 in Professional and Business Services contains 5615 (travel arrangement) and 562 (waste management), which also appear in Hospitality and in Utilities and Waste. The statewide total is 645,575 establishments with paid employees (CBP 2023) plus 3,427,341 businesses without (NES 2024), 4,072,916 in all.
County Business Patterns and Nonemployer Statistics both leave out crop and animal production (NAICS 111, 112) and public administration (NAICS 92). Agriculture and Food therefore shows only the parts these series cover, and Local Government shows the 1,947 local government units counted by the 2022 Census of Governments instead.
Because most Florida businesses have none. Of the 4,072,916 businesses in the two Census series, 3,427,341 (84.1%) had no paid employees, and 2,805,508 of these were sole proprietorships (U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics 2024). A list built from the state's registry of corporations, LLCs and partnerships will contain many such businesses, so counting only employers would understate the size of an industry.
No. Our Florida database is active but per-industry record counts are still being compiled. These official figures show how large each industry is, which is what an export for that industry is meant to cover. See the data status.
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