What it measures
- Number of employer establishments by detailed industry
- Employment and annual payroll for those establishments
- Establishment size classes, which show whether an industry is many small shops or a few large employers
- County, metro and ZIP level geography
What it does not measure
Most misreadings of labor data come from asking a dataset a question it was not built to answer. These are the limits worth holding onto.
- Occupations or job titles
- Openings, hires or turnover
- Self-employed people without employees in the main series
Update cadence
Annual.
Occupation pages name the specific release behind each figure and when it was imported, so you can see how current a number is rather than assuming it is new. More on that on about the data.
How we plan to use it
- Planned. CBP is not ingested today and contributes nothing to any figure on this site.
- The intended future use is showing how many and what size employers exist for an occupation's industries in a given area.
Planned, not active
CBP is not ingested today. Nothing on this site is derived from it, and it does not affect any Job Market Health score.
Official source
U.S. Census Bureau publishes County Business Patterns. JobMarketHealth organizes and derives from that public data and is not its publisher.
Census County Business Patterns
Related guides
- How to compare local job marketsOccupational data goes local through OEWS employment and concentration. Monthly demand data mostly does not, so local comparisons need care about what is being compared.
- Occupation vs industry job dataIndustry is who pays you. Occupation is what you do. The fastest data is by industry, the data that matches a job title is slower, and bridging them requires weighting.
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