NES is an annual series that provides subnational economic data for businesses that have no paid employees and are subject to federal income tax. This series includes the number of businesses and total receipts by industry.
News
PRESS RELEASE | JUNE 21, 2018
Nonemployer Establishments in Taxi Service Grew by 45.9 Percent
Nonemployer establishments, which are establishments without paid employees, in the Transportation and Warehousing sector increased by 22.0 percent in 2016.
PRESS RELEASE | MAY 25, 2017
Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation Increased in 2015
Nonemployer businesses, establishments without paid employees, in the Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation subsector increased by 59.4% in 2015
PRESS RELEASE | MAY 24, 2016
Transportation & Warehousing Sector Drives Nonemployer Business Growth
The number of businesses without paid employees rose by 831,317 or 3.6 percent to 23.8 million establishments from 2013 to 2014.
Updates
OCTOBER 09, 2018
CBP and NES Combined Report
JUNE 2018
2016 NES was released June 21st, 2018
FEBRUARY 2017
February 1st 2017
Beginning February 1, 2017, the Censtats databases located on the censtats.census.gov website will no longer be available through that site.
Data
NES Tables
NES data tables are available in American Factfinder from 2004-present and in print publication from 1997-2004.
NES Datasets
NES data are available in downloadable CSV format, along with record layouts and reference guides, from 1997-present.
API
The Census Bureau’s Application Programming Interface (API) allows users to create custom queries. Users can embed these statistics into web or mobile apps.