1992 ECONOMIC CENSUS -- AREA PROFILE

                              Middlesex County, NJ

                 Number    Sales or             Output   Jobs/1000  Estabs/100K
                     of    Receipts    Number      per  population   population
     Sector      Estabs      ($mil)   of Jobs   capita    #  %ofST     #  %ofST
Mining               12          30        500      44     1   229     2    120

Manufacturing     1,094      13,203     66,000  19,289    96   131   160     94



Wholesale         1,771      21,700     33,075  31,704    48   144   259    110
Retail            3,873       5,696     46,960   8,322    69   103   566     91
Services          5,227       4,435     64,746   6,479    95   110   764     91




                              NEW JERSEY          

                 Number    Sales or             Output   Jobs/1000  Estabs/100K
                     of    Receipts    Number      per  population   population
     Sector      Estabs      ($mil)   of Jobs   capita    #  %ofUS     #  %ofUS
Mining              114         279      2,500      36     0    13     1     12
Construction     19,643      16,493    131,376   2,109    17    92   251    112
Manufacturing    13,277      86,775    573,900  11,096    73   110   170    117
Transportation    7,897      12,402    127,336   1,586    16   131   101    140
Communications    1,257       7,598     74,759     972    10   188    16    104
Utilities           400      11,063     28,163   1,415     4   100     5     65
Wholesale        18,444     176,022    262,705  22,508    34   143   236    121
Retail           48,648      63,109    522,363   8,070    67    93   622    104
Services         65,879      50,242    670,704   6,425    86   113   842    118
Finance           5,737      21,430     97,194   2,740    12    71    73     87
Insurance         4,261      38,052     85,977   4,866    11   130    54     87
Real Estate       7,422       5,355     36,840     685     5    98    95    105

                                 United States

                 Number    Sales or             Output   Jobs/1000  Estabs/100K
                     of    Receipts    Number      per  population   population
     Sector      Estabs      ($mil)   of Jobs   capita    #            #       
Mining           30,787     162,095    638,200     635     3          12
Construction    572,851     528,106  4,668,280   2,070    18         225
Manufacturing   370,934   3,004,862 16,967,400  11,780    67         145
Transportation  184,297     299,274  3,159,451   1,173    12          72
Communications   39,244     230,667  1,294,236     904     5          15
Utilities        20,049     310,961    915,012   1,219     4           8
Wholesale       495,457   3,249,874  5,971,401  12,741    23         194
Retail        1,526,215   1,894,880 18,407,453   7,429    72         598
Services      1,825,435   1,202,613 19,290,352   4,715    76         716
Finance         214,098   1,572,331  4,468,766   6,164    18          84
Insurance       160,639     847,730  2,152,179   3,323     8          63
Real Estate     229,493     141,673  1,231,471     555     5          90

Mining not reported for metros, construction not reported for counties.
Trans:  State & metro excludes large passenger airlines; metro excl pipelines.
Utilities:  metro excludes electic, gas utilities.
    Source:  1992 Economic Census.  Find it at:  http://www.census.gov/econ97
           1992 Economic Census Profile:  Retail, Wholesale, Service
                              Middlesex County, NJ


Top Places in Middlesex County, NJ
           in terms of 1992 population

                                 --- Retail ---  -- Wholesale -- --- Services---
                         Popu-   Number          Number          Number         
                         lation  of      Sales   of       Sales  of       Rcpts
    Geo Area Name       (1992)  Estabs  ($mil)  Estabs   ($mil) Estabs   ($mil)
Woodbridge township      94,285     727*  1,290     195    2,659    717*     570
Edison township          90,012     618*  1,252     405*   6,944    881*     947
Old Bridge township      58,035     166     238      69      330    265      128
Piscataway township      48,042     129     106     126    3,205    244      897
East Brunswick towns     44,630     393*    659     147      486    599*     355
New Brunswick            42,387     249     181      61      232    300      267
Perth Amboy              41,350     195     134      73      929    194       93
Sayreville               35,514     154     265      40       81    186       57
North Brunswick town     32,577     177     368      77      576    271      180
South Brunswick town     27,905     101     178      83    1,569    218      179
* The reports and databases include more Kind-of-Business detail for this area





            1992 Economic Census:  Minority-Owned, Women-Owned Firms

                              Middlesex County, NJ
Firms and Receipts by Group (Groups with 100 or more firms)
                           ----- All Firms ---- ---- Firms with Employees -----
                                                                         Number
                                       Receipts             Receipts         of
             Group            Number    ($mil.)    Number    ($mil.)  Employees

          All firms           40,067   13,984.0     7,669   12,852.0     91,648
    Minority-Owned Firms       5,919      781.4       859      620.1      4,221
Black-Owned firms              1,422       70.9       148       42.9        497
Hispanic-Owned firms           1,420      137.4       171      109.2      1,229
Asians, Am Indians &AK Nat     3,169      577.6       550      468.8      2,499

Women-Owned firms             12,564    1,651.3     1,917    1,430.2     16,425

This table includes sole proprietorships, partnerships, and subchapter S
corporations, and excludes "C" corporations.  Detail may not add to total
due to rounding.  Data may have high variance; see documentation for details.