Florida: Trade Lanes And Small Establishments
Florida's economic development agency counts nine key business industries in the state, from fintech clusters and aviation maintenance to semiconductor and medical device manufacturing, and the trade lanes under them never close. The Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns counts 645,575 employer establishments statewide, and 95.7% of them have fewer than 50 employees. Wholesale trade alone accounts for 30,723 establishments, the import and distribution layer behind the state's ports. These are counts of business locations, not companies or workers, and they describe the whole state, so they stay separate from the metro figures below.
- SelectFlorida: Florida's major industries (current page; retrieved 2026-10-08)
- U.S. Census Bureau: 2023 County Business Patterns: State file (cbp23st) (2023 CBP; retrieved 2026-10-05)