Esri's Business Locations data is extracted from a comprehensive list of businesses licensed from Infogroup. The business list contains data for more than 13 million U.S. businesses including name and location, franchise code, industrial classification code, number of employees, and sales.
Esri's Business Summary data summarizes the comprehensive list of businesses from Infogroup for select NAICS and SIC summary categories by geography and includes total number of businesses, total sales, and total number of employees for a trade area.
The Business Locations database classifies businesses by the following:
- Location SIC and NAICS industry classifications
- Annual sales
- Employees
- And more
The Business Summary database gives you statistics for the following:
- Total sales
- Total number of employees
- Number of businesses by industry
Business Locations and Business Summary Data
You can use Business Locations and Business Summary data to do the following:
- Reveal opportunities by industry type, location, business size, sales volume, and employee statistics.
- Identify daytime and evening hiring opportunities by industry classification.
- Define the best types of merchandise to stock by retail industry sectors.
- Research the competitive impact on business opportunities.
Vintage
- Locations: October 2018
- Summary: January 2018
Available geographies
Locations
U.S. Business Locations is a point-level data set.
Summary
Update frequency
- Locations—
- Quarterly (ArcGIS Business Analyst and ArcGIS Community Analyst Web Apps)
- Annually (ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop)
- Summary—Annually
Methodology
Esri uses the following methodology for business data:
Sample reports
The following sample business reports are available:
- Business Locations (PDF)
- Business Summary (PDF)
For more information about reports and the products that contain them, visit Esri's Apps for Everyone.
For information on how many credits are needed to run reports, see Credits by capability.
Variable lists
- 2018 Business Summary (PDF)
- 2018 Business Locations (PDF)
How to get it
Business data is available in various products including:
For information about purchasing Esri Demographics data as stand-alone datasets, contact datasales@esri.com.