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Counts, jobs and industries for U.S. and Indiana small businesses. Every number keeps its source and the year it was measured.

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United States · 2022 data

Most small businesses have no paid employees.

U.S. small businesses (36,186,089)
36.2M
have no paid employees (29,811,495)
82.4%
have 1 to 499 employees (6,374,594)
6.4M

Source: SBA Office of Advocacy, 2025 U.S. small business profile, using 2022 Census data. A small business here is a firm with fewer than 500 employees. Shares are calculated from the SBA’s counts.

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Where does this small business data come from?

Public sources. These pages use the SBA Office of Advocacy’s 2025 small business profiles, which draw on Census Bureau counts from 2022.

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Is this a live count of businesses?

No. These are totals from 2022 Census data, published in 2025. They don’t show which businesses are open today, for sale or growing.

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