County Business Patterns is an annual series of reports that depicts economic activity in all of the nation's 3,141 counties, by state.
Data are available for hundreds of industries.
Fifteen percent of all U.S. jobs in 1993 were in the nation's 10 counties with the highest employment. However, less than 10,500 of the new jobs created since 1992 were in these same counties. The report also shows there were 6.4 million non-farm businesses in 1993, up 1.4 percent from 1992.