Business Establishments


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2000 Business Establishments 1/, Employees and Annual Payroll in New Mexico, by County  
Annual Number of Establishments
Annual Payroll by Employment-size Class
Total No. No. of Payroll per 100 or
County Estab. Emp. 2/ ($000) Emp.   1-19 20-49 50-99 More
NEW MEXICO 42,782 549,352 $14,303,193 $26,036 37,379 3,544 1,127 732
Bernalillo 15,670 250,274 $7,320,693 $29,251 13,266 1,476 535 393
Catron 66 256 3,851 15,043 64 2 0 0
Chaves 1,508 15,174 323,866 21,343 1,347 114 34 13
Cibola 342 6,013 126,001 20,955 292 26 13 11
Colfax 501 4,174 76,301 18,280 460 28 8 5
Curry 1,059 10,970 210,786 19,215 948 75 26 10
De Baca 61 380 5,924 15,589 57 3 1 0
Dona Ana 3,211 37,050 754,254 20,358 2,802 281 88 40
Eddy 1,225 15,558 394,006 25,325 1,065 115 26 19
Grant 680 7,729 181,982 23,545 618 45 6 11
Guadalupe 106 1,015 16,608 16,363 92 12 1 1
Harding 17 43 778 18,093 17 0 0 0
Hidalgo 109 856 13,465 15,730 97 11 1 0
Lea 1,396 13,984 346,896 24,807 1,243 107 34 12
Lincoln 707 4,510 86,262 19,127 663 34 7 3
Los Alamos 430 6,342 217,480 34,292 372 42 10 6
Luna 408 3,476 58,398 16,800 373 27 4 4
McKinley 1,056 14,895 317,804 21,336 906 83 46 21
Mora 55 358 6,987 19,517 51 3 1 0
Otero 1,025 12,481 226,678 18,162 907 81 22 15
Quay 289 2,180 35,150 16,124 262 20 6 1
Rio Arriba 652 6,542 126,112 19,277 584 45 17 6
Roosevelt 347 2,622 45,818 17,474 313 26 7 1
Sandoval 1,221 19,748 546,236 27,660 1,093 79 28 21
San Juan 2,487 34,340 988,941 28,799 2,140 239 58 50
San Miguel 507 4,946 103,200 20,865 462 36 5 4
Santa Fe 4,669 44,695 1,156,540 25,876 4,187 344 90 48
Sierra 277 2,045 31,800 15,550 253 18 4 2
Socorro 272 2,551 54,095 21,205 242 24 3 3
Taos 1,140 8,488 152,430 17,958 1,058 57 17 8
Torrance 223 1,846 33,930 18,380 204 12 5 2
Union 121 787 13,931 17,701 111 8 2 0
Valencia 851 8,958 169,368 18,907 764 61 17 9
Statewide 3/ 94 4,066 $156,622 $38,520 66 10 5 13
1/   These counts of businesses include only those establishments that had employees.  Businesses are defined as
      establishments rather than firms.  An establishment is a single physical location where business is conducted
      or where services or industrial operations are performed.  In general, the following types of establishments are
      excluded: government (except for government operated hospitals), railroads, those businesses consisting only
      of self-employed persons and agricultural production.  Additionally, domestic servants are excluded.
2/   Number of employees for week including March 12.
3/   Establishments without a fixed location in the state or of unknown county location
     are included under the "Statewide" classification.
Table Prepared by:  Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico.
Source:  U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns, New Mexico, 2000.  


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Last Revised: 8/17/07