How to use NAICS filters and County Business Patterns for industry maps

Jul 30, 2026

Presenters showed how to access economic surveys and County Business Patterns tables, apply NAICS filters (example: NAICS 21 for mining) and noted the large size of some tables (example cited 48,144 rows).

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Tyson Weister described how to navigate economic datasets on data.census.gov, selecting economic surveys → County Business Patterns and applying NAICS filters to limit results. He demonstrated switching to 2-digit NAICS aggregations and then drilling into a sector (example: NAICS 21 for mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction) to visualize measures such as number of employees, establishments and annual payroll.

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