Places/Points of Interest

Esri offers United States business locations data sourced from Data Axle and Places data sourced from SafeGraph. See Places and Points of Interest for more information.

Data Axle Business Locations data

Esri Business Locations data are extracted from a comprehensive list of businesses licensed from Data Axle. 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.

Business location data are available only through ArcGIS Business Analyst and ArcGIS Community Analyst; see Data availability. Visit Places and Points of Interest for more information.

The Business Locations database business classifications include the following:

  • Location SIC and NAICS industry classifications
  • Annual sales
  • Employees

See the NAICS website for NAICS Code definitions and the SIC Manual for SIC code definitions.

Vintage

Q4 2022.

Available geographies

U.S. Business Locations is a point-level dataset.

Update frequency

Business Locations are updated as follows:

  • Quarterly—ArcGIS Business Analyst and ArcGIS Community Analyst web apps
  • Annually—ArcGIS Business Analyst Desktop

Methodology

Esri uses the following methodology for business data:

Sample reports

Variable lists

The following lists are available:

Data availability

Data Axle Business Locations data is available in various products including the following:

SafeGraph Places data

The Places data from SafeGraph contains information about five million U.S. places, including name, location—such as the address or geographic coordinates, industrial classification code, and brand. Places are defined as locations where consumers can spend money, time, or both and include restaurants, grocery stores, malls, parks, hospitals, museums, and more.

Places data are available only through ArcGIS Business Analyst, ArcGIS Community Analyst, and the ArcGIS Marketplace; see Data availability. Visit Places and Points of Interest for more information.

Vintage

Q1 2023.

Update frequency

Places data is updated quarterly—ArcGIS Business Analyst and ArcGIS Community Analyst web apps.

Data availability

SafeGraph Places datasets are available in the following products: