Business Establishments


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2004 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 44,205 580,576 $16,811,505 $28,957 38,295 3,953 1,157 800
Bernalillo 15,918 252,666 $7,988,744 $31,618 13,319 1,650 540 409
Catron 62 279 4,956 17,763 61 1 0 0
Chaves 1,477 15,534 350,229 22,546 1,292 136 37 12
Cibola 366 6,809 165,875 24,361 320 19 12 15
Colfax 528 4,242 87,632 20,658 481 38 7 2
Curry 1,068 13,252 280,691 21,181 937 92 26 13
De Baca 59 325 6,361 19,572 56 2 1 0
Dona Ana 3,422 42,580 1,009,584 23,710 2,978 289 101 54
Eddy 1,164 16,665 516,069 30,967 978 128 37 21
Grant 705 7,366 195,853 26,589 648 40 8 9
Guadalupe 98 1,097 21,073 19,210 83 12 2 1
Harding 16 41 751 18,317 16 0 0 0
Hidalgo 111 945 17,556 18,578 98 10 3 0
Lea 1,409 16,285 443,999 27,264 1,231 131 30 17
Lincoln 762 5,382 112,253 20,857 706 46 6 4
Los Alamos 440 6,261 229,392 36,638 385 37 12 6
Luna 421 4,807 92,714 19,287 374 31 9 7
McKinley 1,030 16,304 378,228 23,198 850 115 41 24
Mora 64 428 8,784 20,523 59 4 1 0
Otero 1,047 11,961 249,709 20,877 932 84 15 16
Quay 260 1,949 37,445 19,212 241 14 5 0
Rio Arriba 692 7,223 165,407 22,900 617 51 17 7
Roosevelt 352 3,689 75,602 20,494 311 27 10 4
Sandoval 1,404 21,953 815,859 37,164 1,250 101 27 26
San Juan 2,657 36,221 1,110,690 30,664 2,276 263 64 54
San Miguel 494 6,193 225,472 36,408 443 37 8 6
Santa Fe 5,034 47,761 1,426,589 29,869 4,525 365 91 53
Sierra 249 2,194 37,918 17,283 223 20 3 3
Socorro 270 2,756 70,043 25,415 235 29 3 3
Taos 1,219 8,855 185,094 20,903 1,133 67 12 7
Torrance 235 2,180 44,277 20,311 215 14 3 3
Union 113 857 16,725 19,516 101 11 1 0
Valencia 899 11,192 219,858 19,644 803 66 16 14
Statewide 3/ 160 4,324 $220,073 $50,896 118 23 9 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, 2004.
Table Prepared by:  Bureau of Business and Economic Research, University of New Mexico.      


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Last Revised: 8/17/07