County Business Patterns: one NAICS code across a geography level

Establishments, employment, annual and first-quarter payroll of employer businesses from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns (<vintage>/cbp), one vintage year (1998 to the latest published; earlier vintages publish SIC codes), for one NAICS code (00 = all industries) across the nation, every state (or one), the counties of one state, or every metro area. The industry variable is renamed per vintage (NAICS1997 ... NAICS2017) and is resolved from the vintage's own variable list, which also labels the code (from the 2012 vintage on). A county list can be shorter than the state's counties: the Bureau publishes no row where it withholds one. A vintage past the latest is an empty answer with a reason.

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🟢200OK

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One row per geography with the four measures, in FIPS or CBSA order.

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{
    "data": {
        "year": 0,
        "dataset": "string",
        "geo": "string",
        "state": "string",
        "count": 0,
        "data": [
            {
                "name": "string",
                "state_fips": "string",
                "county_fips": "string",
                "cbsa": "string",
                "estab": 0,
                "emp": 0,
                "payann": 0,
                "payqtr1": 0,
                "property1": "string",
                "property2": "string"
            }
        ],
        "source": "string",
        "naics": {
            "code": "string",
            "label": "string",
            "variable": "string",
            "property1": "string",
            "property2": "string"
        },
        "reason": "string",
        "property1": "string",
        "property2": "string"
    },
    "meta": {
        "endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
        "data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
        "response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
        "provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
        "data_age_days": 0,
        "source": "string",
        "attribution": "string",
        "fallback_used": true,
        "fallback_chain": [
            "string"
        ],
        "cached": true,
        "stale": true,
        "stale_since": "string",
        "period": "string",
        "notes": "string"
    }
}

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County Business Patterns: one NAICS code across a geography level

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