Top 10 states by construction industry size

California leads with 85,171. The 10 US states with the largest construction sector by number of establishments, from US Census County Business Patterns 2022.

#	Name	Establishments	Detail
1	California	85,171	873,902 employees · $69.1B payroll
2	Florida	65,238	523,301 employees · $31.7B payroll
3	Texas	54,478	737,882 employees · $53.1B payroll
4	New York	51,229	364,192 employees · $29.0B payroll
5	Illinois	29,603	219,083 employees · $18.7B payroll
6	Pennsylvania	28,701	257,661 employees · $19.0B payroll
7	North Carolina	27,508	238,300 employees · $15.1B payroll
8	Washington	27,034	221,529 employees · $17.7B payroll
9	New Jersey	22,526	168,985 employees · $13.9B payroll
10	Georgia	21,664	207,986 employees · $14.5B payroll

Methodology

Total construction establishments (NAICS 23) per state, US Census County Business Patterns 2022.

As of 2026-05-28. ACS 2023 5-year + CBP 2022.

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