Business Establishments


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2002 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 43,213 554,156 $15,108,293 $27,264 37,672 3,673 1,133 735
Bernalillo 15,669 241,224 $7,244,858 $30,034 13,214 1,549 547 359
Catron 70 263 4,697 17,859 68 2 0 0
Chaves 1,435 14,609 342,942 23,475 1,274 119 27 15
Cibola 357 6,532 149,648 22,910 306 22 16 13
Colfax 525 4,110 82,126 19,982 483 29 10 3
Curry 1,027 12,108 248,758 20,545 906 88 21 12
De Baca 60 317 6,205 19,574 58 2 0 0
Dona Ana 3,245 40,233 883,270 21,954 2,848 256 96 45
Eddy 1,188 15,432 443,117 28,714 1,025 119 22 22
Grant 696 7,253 160,139 22,079 638 42 6 10
Guadalupe 105 1,048 20,828 19,874 91 12 1 1
Harding 15 40 655 16,375 15 0 0 0
Hidalgo 112 893 15,084 16,891 97 13 2 0
Lea 1,408 15,813 394,737 24,963 1,234 122 36 16
Lincoln 741 5,172 97,896 18,928 691 39 6 5
Los Alamos 423 6,974 256,647 36,801 367 34 14 8
Luna 401 3,538 70,846 20,024 364 28 3 6
McKinley 1,030 14,958 347,412 23,226 872 96 42 20
Mora 56 410 8,240 20,098 52 3 0 1
Otero 1,033 11,920 231,973 19,461 922 78 19 14
Quay 280 2,036 34,853 17,118 259 15 5 1
Rio Arriba 695 7,178 146,149 20,361 619 50 18 8
Roosevelt 343 3,286 61,353 18,671 306 26 7 4
Sandoval 1,315 21,294 717,609 33,700 1,160 103 28 24
San Juan 2,588 34,726 995,155 28,657 2,231 246 60 51
San Miguel 503 5,928 127,098 21,440 453 39 5 6
Santa Fe 4,866 46,006 1,279,591 27,814 4,381 341 95 49
Sierra 257 1,933 33,497 17,329 235 17 2 3
Socorro 263 2,564 60,165 23,465 227 31 2 3
Taos 1,174 9,104 172,271 18,923 1,088 59 18 9
Torrance 229 2,072 37,818 18,252 208 13 5 3
Union 121 828 14,149 17,088 110 10 1 0
Valencia 874 9,836 203,186 20,657 796 54 12 12
Statewide 3/ 109 4,518 $215,321 $47,658 74 16 7 12
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.
Source:  U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, County Business Patterns, New Mexico, 2002.
Table Prepared by:  Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico.      


Bureau of Business & Economic Research, UNM /bber@unm.edu
Last Revised: 8/17/07