State overview · LA · Census CBP 2023
Louisiana Industry Benchmarks
Employment, establishments, and payroll for 805 industries in Louisiana. Drill into any industry for a Louisiana-specific view, then cross-reference the national page for margins.
- 1.7M
- Workers
- 107K
- Establishments
- 805
- Industries tracked
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · Louisiana
Louisiana employs 1,658,849 workers across 805 tracked industries, led by General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (90,182 workers) among the 351 detailed industries with published employment.
Health Care and Social Assistance anchors Louisiana; top-three cumulative share is 44%. Margins stay on national industry pages.
Louisiana sector employment mix
Share of private-sector employment by NAICS-2 sector (Census CBP 2023). Tile area = workers.
Health Care and Social Assistance is the clear anchor in Louisiana (18% of 1,658,849 private-sector workers (about the 49th percentile of states by employment)), but sibling sectors still take meaningful shares. Read the treemap as an anchor-plus-breadth economy rather than a one-sector state.
Not ranked: 3 of 20 sectors have no published employment figure. Census County Business Patterns applies 2% or more noise to those cells, and PlainBizBench publishes only low-noise figures rather than estimating. Total employment, shares and the mix on this page sum only the sectors with a published figure. How we handle withheld data.
#1 · NAICS 62
Health Care and Social Assistance
305,645 · 18%
#2 · NAICS 44
Retail Trade
221,758 · 13%
#3 · NAICS 72
Accommodation and Food Services
205,093 · 12%
Anchor economy · Herfindahl 0.098 (open) · top-three 44% of Louisiana private payroll.
Profit margins are national (IRS SOI); open any industry row below, then the matching national industry page for profitability.
Census CBP firm roll
County Business Patterns LA ANCHORED · CBP
#26/51 · 1,658,849 workers · 107,326 firms
- EMP 1,658,849
- EST 107,326
- RANK #26/51
- PCT 49th pct
- LEAD Health Care and Soci…
- SHARE 18% lead
- BAND anchored
- DENS 15.5 /firm
- BOOK 805 NAICS
- PHOTO Kentucky
Nearest employment-scale peer: Kentucky (1,674,114 workers)
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Louisiana ranks #26 of 51 states and territories by total private-sector employment (level-2 sector totals, the same non-double-counted aggregate shown above). Margins stay on national industry pages (IRS SOI). Read with this state → · Lead 6-digit industry →
LA in the employment-scale neighbourhood
Top Industries by Employment
Not ranked: 387 of 738 detailed industries have no published employment figure. Census County Business Patterns applies 2% or more noise to those cells, and PlainBizBench publishes only low-noise figures rather than estimating. Commercial Banking (1,362), Consumer Lending (683), Office Administrative Services (655) and 43 more report more establishments than General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, so General Medical and Surgical Hospitals leads only among the 351 detailed industries with published employment. How we handle withheld data.
Scale peers for Louisiana's anchor economy
Nearest other states by Census CBP level-2 private employment (1,658,849 in Louisiana), excluding LA.
Source: Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023 · LA
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