Business Automation And Custom Software In Texas

The Texas Comptroller's December 2025 fiscal note on small business puts numbers behind the state's reputation: 99.8 percent of Texas businesses can be categorized as a small business, and small businesses employ about 44 percent of the workforce, 5.1 million people. The agency also names wholesale and retail trade and construction among the top five economic sectors for small business. That is a statewide ranking, so treat it as context for Texas, not a description of any one metro.

On the employer side, the Census Bureau's 2023 County Business Patterns counts 670,878 employer establishments in Texas statewide, and 94.0 percent of them have fewer than 50 employees. Construction alone accounts for 56,287 of those establishments. These are counts of business locations, not companies, and they describe the whole state, so the metro figures further down this page stay separate.