State overview · OH · Census CBP 2023
Ohio Industry Benchmarks
Employment, establishments, and payroll for 1071 industries in Ohio. Drill into any industry for a Ohio-specific view, then cross-reference the national page for margins.
- 4.9M
- Workers
- 252K
- Establishments
- 1071
- Industries tracked
Data updated August 2026
The verdict · Ohio
Ohio employs 4,867,738 workers across 1071 tracked industries, led by General Medical and Surgical Hospitals (275,683 workers) among the 486 detailed industries with published employment.
Health Care and Social Assistance anchors Ohio; top-three cumulative share is 44%. Margins stay on national industry pages.
Ohio 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 Ohio (18% of 4,867,738 private-sector workers (about the 86th 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: 2 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
883,961 · 18%
#2 · NAICS 31
Manufacturing
689,133 · 14%
#3 · NAICS 44
Retail Trade
560,620 · 12%
Anchor economy · Herfindahl 0.100 (open) · top-three 44% of Ohio 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 OH ANCHORED · CBP
#7/51 · 4,867,738 workers · 252,255 firms
- EMP 4,867,738
- EST 252,255
- RANK #7/51
- PCT 86th pct
- LEAD Health Care and Soci…
- SHARE 18% lead
- BAND anchored
- DENS 19.3 /firm
- BOOK 1071 NAICS
- PHOTO Georgia
Nearest employment-scale peer: Georgia (4,374,151 workers)
According to Census County Business Patterns 2023, Ohio ranks #7 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 →
OH in the employment-scale neighbourhood
Top Industries by Employment
Not ranked: 409 of 895 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. Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices (1,887), Portfolio Management (1,620), Pharmacies and Drug Stores (1,285) and 52 more report more establishments than General Medical and Surgical Hospitals, so General Medical and Surgical Hospitals leads only among the 486 detailed industries with published employment. How we handle withheld data.
Scale peers for Ohio's anchor economy
Nearest other states by Census CBP level-2 private employment (4,867,738 in Ohio), excluding OH.
Source: Census Bureau County Business Patterns (CBP) 2023 · OH
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