Eastern Oregon Has High Percentage of Small Businesses

by Tony Wendel

September 9, 2022

Eastern Oregon, comprising Baker, Grant, Harney, Malheur, Morrow, Umatilla, Union, and Wallowa counties, has a lot of small businesses. This is fairly typical of rural areas. There were about 5,350 private-sector firms within the Eastern Oregon area in the first quarter of 2022. Two out of three firms in the area have four employees or less (3,614 firms) and only 2.7% (141 firms) have 50 or more employees.
Even though there is such a high percentage of small businesses within Eastern Oregon, about 58% of the area’s approximately 60,000 private jobs are in larger firms with 50 or more employees. About one-quarter of jobs are in companies with 10 to 49 employees, while almost 18% are in businesses with nine or fewer employees.

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