Q. Employment statistics by U.S. industry and geography?

• Census Bureau's County Business Patterns

• • 1962, 1964+ (online) through ICPSR
  • 1946+ in print Firestone (F) call number HC106.5.A13
  • For 1946-1974, see "The Early County Business Pattern Files: 1946-1974". Fabian Eckert, Ka-leung Lam, Atif R. Mian, Karsten Müller, Rafael Schwalb, and Amir Sufi NBER Working Paper No. 30578 - October 2022. For the data see Early County Business Pattern Files: United States, 1946-1974.

• National Historical Geographic Information System (NHGIS) 1970+. Free registration is required. 

• Census Bureau's data.census.gov. In the Advanced Search, choose  Business & Economy from the Topics category and then Economic Census from the Survey category.
• Census Bureau's Statistics of U.S. Businesses includes data by NAICS sector

• Bureau of Labor Statistics: Current Employment Statistics. Part of the Bureau's Employment Projections program.

To separate private sector and select geographic area:

State and Metro Area Employment, Hours, & Earnings, part of the Current Employment Statistics program of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.

For public and private sectors combined plus geographic area, try:

Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages: Location Quotient Details of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics

Search by:
YEAR
AREA -- U.S. Total, States, Counties, Metropolitan Areas (MSAs)
INDUSTRY -- NAICS