Transportation and Warehousing ·NAICS 485310

NAICS 485310 · IRS SOI (C corp) · Census CBP 2023

Taxi Service - Industry Benchmarks

166 SBA loans on record, $19M in volume, for NAICS 485310.

3K
Establishments
23K
Workers employed
N/A
Avg payroll / employee
$19M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Data updated August 2026

The verdict · NAICS 485310

New York leads Taxi Service activity nationally, across 3K establishments employing 23K workers. IRS SOI doesn't publish margin data at this NAICS level.

3K
Business establishments (Census)
23K
Workers employed (Census CBP)
N/A
Avg payroll / employee
$19M
SBA lending, FY20–26

Use Taxi Service's NAICS benchmark as a comparison point, not a forecast for one business.

Taxi Service is reported here with financial measures from IRS Statistics of Income and workforce measures from Census County Business Patterns. The page keeps those source systems distinct, shows unavailable fields rather than estimating them, and links the underlying industry context so readers can compare the same NAICS activity before interpreting a margin or payroll figure.

Source: IRS SOI (C corporation headline) and Census County Business Patterns 2023

Benchmarking Insights for Taxi Service

Taxi Service sits inside Transportation and Warehousing.

3,441 establishments employ 22,790 workers (6.6/location). New York leads employment, followed by California and Ohio.

Employment

22,790

Total employees (Census CBP)

Avg Payroll / Employee

N/A

Annual compensation

Establishments

3,441

Business locations

Release-over-release change

What changed from Census CBP 2022 to 2023

Employment increased by 1,225; establishment count increased by 279. This comparison uses two published national Census County Business Patterns releases; suppressed fields are omitted rather than estimated.

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Workforce scale

Financial Detail

Avg Employees per Establishment
6.6

Top States by Employment

State Employment
New York 4,266
California 2,777
Ohio 527
Virginia 526
New Jersey 370
Pennsylvania 363
Maryland 272
New Hampshire 214
Minnesota 185
Michigan 178

Showing top 10 of 51 states

SBA Lending Activity

SBA FY2020–2026

SBA Loans Approved

166

Total Loan Volume

$19M

Avg Loan Size

$114K

Jobs Supported

827

Program Breakdown

7(a) 165 (99%)
504 1 (1%)

Top SBA Lender

TD Bank, National Association

49 loans in this industry

New Business Share

28.3% of borrowers were new/startup businesses

Annual Lending Trend (7 yrs)

2020
16
2021
11
2022
21
2023
33
2024
46
2025
33
2026
6

Frequently Asked Questions

How many businesses are in Taxi Service?
3,441 business establishments. Together they employ 22,790 workers.
What is the average payroll per employee in Taxi Service?
Average payroll data for Taxi Service is not available in the current Census CBP dataset.
Which states have the most Taxi Service employment?
New York leads with 4,266 workers. California (2,777) and Ohio (527) round out the top three.
How much SBA lending does Taxi Service receive?
Taxi Service businesses received 166 SBA loans totaling $19 million between FY2020 and FY2026. The average loan size was $114K. These loans supported 827 jobs at origination. Most lending (99%) came through the SBA 7(a) program.

Comparable industry benchmarks

These links are calculated from the current national dataset. They are comparison paths, not recommendations or evidence that businesses operate alike.

According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Taxi Service ranks #534 of 801 U.S. industries at the 6-digit NAICS level by total employment.

Closest workforce scale

Same NAICS detail level, ordered by the smallest difference in reported Census employment.

Benchmarking Taxi Service

Disclaimer: Public IRS/Census data, not financial or tax advice. See our full disclaimer.

Sources: IRS Statistics of Income (SOI) Business Tax Statistics · Census Bureau County Business Patterns 2023

NAICS 485310 · CBP 2023 · IRS SOI

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, which released its 2023 County Business Patterns dataset in June 2025, PlainBizBench benchmarks 2,002 U.S. industries against Internal Revenue Service Statistics of Income data. See our methodology for the full compilation process.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns / SUSB Industry employment scale, payroll, and firm-size benchmarks · 2023

Every figure on PlainBizBench is rendered directly from federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. This page aggregates profit-margin, payroll, entity-type, and SBA-lending benchmarks for this industry, live from the dataset. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error.

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