---led by New York City with 520,480 and Los Angeles with 325,402.
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核心提示： Almost 98% of all businesses are classified as small businesses---led by New York City with 520,480 and Los Angeles with 32
---led by New York City with 520,480 and Los Angeles with 325,402.
Nearly all of the businesses in the United States are small businesses.
A total of 6.98 million private-sector businesses are located within the nation's 938 metropolitan and micropolitan areas, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. And 6.82 million of them -- 97.7 percent -- have fewer than 100 employees, meeting the definition of a small business.
[color=rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.74902)][backcolor=rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.498039)]EnlargeThe corresponding rates for small businesses topped 95 percent in every single metro and micro in 2009, the latest year for which official figures are available. Heading the list is Picayune, Miss., where 99.64 percent of all business establishments are classified as small businesses.
[size=1.4]PEOPLE AROUND THE COUNTRYThe database below has breakdowns for all 938 areas. Use the tab to narrow the list to a single state, or leave the tab alone and hit the Search button to see the top-to-bottom rankings. Re-sort the list by clicking any column header.
The database also displays the number of small businesses in each metro or micro, led by New York City with 520,480 and Los Angeles with 325,402. Eleven areas have more than 100,000 small businesses.
Each area's number of microbusinesses can be found in the database, too. Microbusinesses, defined as firms with fewer than 10 employees, are also included in the overall count of small businesses.
The New York City area has the most microbusinesses (415,301), while Heber, Utah, has the highest concentration of small businesses that are also microbusinesses (85.84 percent).
Previous editions of On Numbers this week presented the overall private-sector business counts for metropolitan and micropolitan areas, as well as their total payrolls.
