BBER-UNM: Business Establishments

1999 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	42,918	541,386	$13,638,579	$25,192	37,533	3,552	1,128	705

Bernalillo	15,715	248,391	6,897,133	27,767	13,303	1,498	532	382
Catron	64	243	3,061	12,597	63	1	0	0
Chaves	1,517	14,899	317,786	21,329	1,364	107	34	12
Cibola	353	5,330	109,568	20,557	300	29	15	9
Colfax	501	4,102	73,454	17,907	462	28	7	4
Curry	1,076	10,920	204,637	18,740	966	75	25	10
De Baca	62	348	5,399	15,514	59	3	0	0
Dona Ana	3,260	35,749	723,995	20,252	2,842	295	89	34
Eddy	1,272	16,127	425,777	26,402	1,110	114	23	25
Grant	686	7,393	168,306	22,766	623	45	6	12
Guadalupe	113	1,096	16,085	14,676	97	13	2	1
Harding	19	49	965	19,694	19	0	0	0
Hidalgo	107	1,461	32,691	22,376	92	14	0	1
Lea	1,423	13,820	323,442	23,404	1,267	116	28	12
Lincoln	709	4,489	83,778	18,663	666	32	9	2
Los Alamos	444	6,233	184,097	29,536	387	37	14	6
Luna	410	3,235	59,264	18,320	378	25	4	3
McKinley	1,047	14,562	303,667	20,853	894	90	47	16
Mora	60	389	6,592	16,946	54	5	1	0
Otero	1,050	11,636	211,927	18,213	937	77	21	15
Quay	297	2,110	34,325	16,268	271	20	6	0
Rio Arriba	640	6,654	132,623	19,931	571	44	16	9
Roosevelt	351	2,755	46,332	16,817	315	27	7	2
Sandoval	1,226	19,941	643,167	32,253	1,092	79	34	21
San Juan	2,493	34,410	917,077	26,651	2,165	229	55	44
San Miguel	512	4,874	92,036	18,883	469	32	9	2
Santa Fe	4,589	43,308	1,087,053	25,101	4,108	339	92	50
Sierra	293	1,921	29,741	15,482	276	11	4	2
Socorro	266	2,486	51,107	20,558	237	23	3	3
Taos	1,109	8,403	141,125	16,795	1,023	59	22	5
Torrance	236	2,014	34,949	17,353	216	12	5	3
Union	121	719	12,452	17,318	110	11	0	0
Valencia	837	8,727	164,614	18,863	758	54	15	10

Statewide 3/	60	2,592	$100,354	$38,717	39	8	3	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.

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, 1999.