North Carolina Total nonemployer establishments, 2017 by County

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Total nonemployer establishments, 2017 - (Number)
County Value
Alamance 10,308
Alexander 2,350
Alleghany 978
Anson 1,275
Ashe 2,469
Avery 1,681
Beaufort 3,214
Bertie 896
Bladen 1,678
Brunswick 10,722
Buncombe 28,020
Burke 5,224
Cabarrus 15,755
Caldwell 4,960
Camden 700
Carteret 6,358
Caswell 1,114
Catawba 10,700
Chatham 6,370
Cherokee 2,214
Chowan 988
Clay 1,100
Cleveland 5,622
Columbus 3,251
Craven 5,967
Cumberland 18,176
Currituck 2,166
Dare 5,306
Davidson 11,345
Davie 3,192
Duplin 3,104
Durham 24,948
Edgecombe 2,653
Forsyth 27,039
Franklin 4,414
Gaston 13,872
Gates 526
Graham 727
Granville 3,345
Greene 1,081
Guilford 41,678
Halifax 2,571
Harnett 7,050
Haywood 5,055
Henderson 9,552
Hertford 1,044
Hoke 2,573
Hyde 572
Iredell 14,093
Jackson 3,098
Johnston 13,560
Jones 565
Lee 3,836
Lenoir 3,170
Lincoln 6,103
Macon 3,346
Madison 2,008
Martin 1,249
McDowell 2,610
Mecklenburg 99,156
Mitchell 1,183
Montgomery 1,504
Moore 7,746
Nash 5,979
New Hanover 19,879
Northampton 839
Onslow 10,201
Orange 13,405
Pamlico 987
Pasquotank 2,697
Pender 4,438
Perquimans 944
Person 2,202
Pitt 10,573
Polk 2,031
Randolph 9,794
Richmond 2,006
Robeson 7,297
Rockingham 4,916
Rowan 9,276
Rutherford 4,134
Sampson 3,516
Scotland 1,734
Stanly 3,934
Stokes 2,849
Surry 4,851
Swain 1,308
Transylvania 3,247
Tyrrell 289
Union 18,688
Vance 2,296
Wake 91,077
Warren 1,017
Washington 589
Watauga 4,962
Wayne 6,393
Wilkes 4,411
Wilson 4,754
Yadkin 2,353
Yancey 1,642

Value for North Carolina (Number): 760,638

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Nonemployer Statistics Updated annually.

Definitions:

A nonemployer business is one that has no paid employees, has annual business receipts of $1,000 or more ($1 or more in the construction industries), and is subject to federal income taxes. Nonemployer businesses are generally small, such as real estate agents and independent contractors. Nonemployers constitute nearly three-quarters of all businesses, but they contribute less than four percent of overall sales and receipts data. Nonemployers are not included in the counts of establishments from the Economic Census or County Business Patterns.

Generally, an establishment is a single physical location at which business is conducted or services or industrial operations are performed. However, for nonemployers, each distinct business income tax return filed by a nonemployer business is counted as an establishment. Nonemployer businesses may operate from a home address or a separate physical location. A business is assigned to a county location based on the business owner's mailing address, which may not be the same as the physical location of the business.

Scope and Methodology:

Nonemployer statistics data originate chiefly from administrative records of the Internal Revenue Service, Bureau of Labor Statistics, and the Social Security Administration. Data are primarily comprised of sole proprietorship businesses, although a portion of the data is derived from partnership and corporation businesses. These data undergo complex processing, editing, and analytical review at the Census Bureau to distinguish nonemployers from employers, correct and complete data items, and form the final nonemployer universe.

Puerto Rico and the Island Areas (American Samoa, Guam, The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, and the U.S. Virgin Islands) are excluded from Nonemployer Statistics.

The 2012 Nonemployer Statistics was published as part of the 2012 Economic Census, and some displays combine data for nonemployers and employers. Data for other years are published separately in the Nonemployer Statistics series.

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