Lamson Library: Small Business: Business Data

Business Data

American FactFinder
American FactFinder is your source for population, housing, economic and geographic information.
Census Business Builder: Regional Analyst Edition
Version 1.0 of the Census Business Builder: Small Business Edition provides information for selected kinds of businesses that cater to individual consumers, or “B-to-C” businesses. Future versions of this tool will provide information for additional B-to-C businesses as well as information for businesses whose customers are other businesses (or “B-to-Bs”).
Databases, Tables & Calculators by Subject -- Bureau of Labor Statistics
The Bureau of Labor Statistics of the U.S. Department of Labor is the principal Federal agency responsible for measuring labor market activity, working conditions, and price changes in the economy. Its mission is to collect, analyze, and disseminate essential economic information to support public and private decision-making. As an independent statistical agency, BLS serves its diverse user communities by providing products and services that are objective, timely, accurate, and relevant.
Finding Data
The Census Bureau conducts over 100 surveys each year to measure the nation's people, places, and economy.

The Economic Programs conducted by the Census Bureau cover business activity on the local and national levels. If you are interested in data about people and households, please visit the People and Households page .
Industry Statistics Portal
This application provides access to the Census Bureau programs that provide economic data for a user-selected industry. To choose the industry you are interested in.
NHetwork
The demographic, labor market, and educational data made available in NHetwork has been compiled in a database structure defined by the America's Labor Market Information System (ALMIS) Database Consortium. This database structure was developed for the storage and maintenance of labor market, economic, and demographic information and is intended for use by the states in the dissemination of state and national data.
People and Households - Data By Subject
State and County Quick Facts
QuickFacts provides statistics for all states and counties, and for cities and towns with a population of 5,000 or more.
Access Financing -- Business USA
BusinessUSA implements a "no wrong door" approach for small businesses and exporters by using technology to quickly connect businesses to the services and information relevant to them, regardless of where the information is located or which agency's website, call center, or office they go to for help. Looking forward, the more federal agencies continue to add resources to BusinessUSA to encompass the full range of business programs and services, the more we will be able to reduce the confusing array of websites that exist today.