Brooklyn Firms by Number of Employees

Return to Index of Statistics

44% of Brooklyn's employed population, or 410,000 people, work in the borough. Not surprisingly, most establishments in Brooklyn are small. As of 2000, 91% of the approximately 38,704 establishments had fewer than 20 employees.12 The establishments in the 20-to-99 employee range are primarily in trade, services, and manufacturing.13 There are over 100,000 individuals who file Schedule C tax returns, indicating that they are the sole proprietors of their businesses.14

12 2001 County Business Patterns
13 New York State Office of the State Comptroller, "Brooklyn: An Economic Review"
14 BEDC SBS Commercial Revitalization Project Application
 



 Source: County Business Patterns, US Census Bureau and New York Sate Department of Labor

 

Number of
Employees
1994 Number
of Firms
Percentage
of All Firms
2001 Number
of Firms
Percentage
of All Firms
1 to 4
22,526
66.9%
25,926
66.9%
5 to 9
4,864
14.4%
5,618
14.5%
10 to 19
3,041
9%
3,508
9.1%
20 to 49
2,109
6.2%
2,435
6.3
50 to 99
642
1.9%
718
1.9
100 to 249
339
1%
351
0.9
250 or more
152
0.4%
98
0.3
Total Firms
33,673
100%
38,732
100%

Source: County Business Patterns, US Census Bureau and New York Sate Department of Labor

Source: 2002 American Community Survey

Return to Index of Statistics


Copyright © 1997-2005 Brooklyn Economic Development Corporation
175 Remsen Street, Suite 350, Brooklyn, NY 11201-4300
Telephone: (718) 522-4600 Fax: (718) 797-9286

Send mail to info@bedc.org with questions or comments about this web site

BBRIDGEsm.gif (10077 bytes)