Business Establishments


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2003 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 43,568 571,381 $15,848,550 $27,737 37,827 3,776 1,207 758
Bernalillo 15,776 251,291 $7,613,560 $30,298 13,240 1,585 568 383
Catron 73 284 4,809 16,933 71 2 0 0
Chaves 1,452 14,699 330,468 22,482 1,280 128 34 10
Cibola 363 6,724 154,358 22,956 309 24 17 13
Colfax 530 4,337 85,270 19,661 487 33 8 2
Curry 1,052 11,916 266,035 22,326 928 87 29 8
De Baca 55 323 5,681 17,588 53 2 0 0
Dona Ana 3,331 40,955 914,519 22,330 2,899 278 104 50
Eddy 1,172 15,576 470,053 30,178 1,013 102 37 20
Grant 706 7,317 164,104 22,428 638 49 10 9
Guadalupe 97 1,122 21,281 18,967 82 13 1 1
Harding 15 35 639 18,257 15 0 0 0
Hidalgo 109 914 15,445 16,898 98 8 3 0
Lea 1,388 16,431 409,996 24,953 1,212 122 36 18
Lincoln 750 5,245 105,131 20,044 697 42 8 3
Los Alamos 431 8,246 328,235 39,805 370 39 14 8
Luna 413 4,096 80,861 19,741 370 32 5 6
McKinley 1,009 15,654 353,019 22,551 843 104 37 25
Mora 60 391 8,536 21,831 55 4 1 0
Otero 1,032 11,424 244,309 21,386 917 86 16 13
Quay 260 1,944 35,529 18,276 239 17 4 0
Rio Arriba 698 8,010 170,973 21,345 616 52 19 11
Roosevelt 368 3,596 69,460 19,316 326 27 11 4
Sandoval 1,352 21,350 714,395 33,461 1,201 94 31 26
San Juan 2,592 33,996 987,839 29,058 2,235 243 65 49
San Miguel 498 6,371 221,010 34,690 447 38 7 6
Santa Fe 4,928 47,567 1,331,662 27,996 4,425 361 90 52
Sierra 249 2,071 34,513 16,665 227 16 3 3
Socorro 267 2,697 65,732 24,372 231 30 3 3
Taos 1,189 9,149 178,479 19,508 1,105 59 17 8
Torrance 227 2,062 40,023 19,410 208 11 5 3
Union 120 825 15,502 18,790 108 11 1 0
Valencia 901 11,038 224,300 20,321 813 58 16 14
Statewide 3/ 105 3,725 $182,824 $49,080 69 19 7 10
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, 2003.
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