2022 Economic Census Concentration of Largest Firms
U.S. Census Bureau / accessed 2026-07-17
Cross-sectional + longitudinal evidence studio
Sector Comparison Studio
Compare sector concentration, employment composition, business flows, and merger-review activity. BDS and HSR observations retain their separate sector populations and reporting periods.
- Rank universe
- 17
- broad Census sectors
- Evidence
- 10 + paths + HSR
- kept in source units
- Universe cells
- 170
- exact joined values
- Compare
- 2-4
- sectors per packet
01Current structure2022 Economic Census
02Strict industry change2017-2022 matched rows
03Business flows2023 Census BDS
04Merger reviewFY2023-FY2024 HSR
No composite score.
Cross-domain comparison workspace
Compare sector fingerprints without collapsing the evidence
20 selected exact values against a fixed 17-sector rank universe.- Reference
- 31-33
- Manufacturing
- Full universe
- 17
- rank denominator
- Source families
- 4
- kept separate
Full-universe position tracks
Ten measures, one rank axis per row
Current structure2 measures
2022 / Economic CensusMedian HHIHHI points
#17#1
439.3#4 / 17
638.2#1 / 17
Median CR4percent
#17#1
38.5%#5 / 17
45.6%#1 / 17
Strict industry change2 measures
2017-2022 / Economic Census strict matchesHHI changeHHI points
#17#1
12.4#3 / 17
56.4#1 / 17
HHI increase sharepercent
#17#1
59.2%#6 / 17
50.0%#10 / 17
Business flows6 measures
2023 / Business Dynamics StatisticsEntry ratepercent
#17#1
6.870%#15 / 17
10.578%#10 / 17
Exit ratepercent
#17#1
6.997%#16 / 17
11.499%#3 / 17
Job creationpercent
#17#1
9.548%#15 / 17
12.429%#12 / 17
Job destructionpercent
#17#1
8.283%#15 / 17
12.678%#5 / 17
Net job creationpercentage points
#17#1
+1.265 pp#14 / 17
-0.248 pp#16 / 17
Excess reallocationpercent
#17#1
16.565%#15 / 17
24.859%#6 / 17
This studio places separate published measures side by side. Every rank uses the full 17-sector universe, and every gap subtracts exact values only within the same metric and unit. Ranks, percentiles, intensities, and gaps cannot be compared across measures, summed, averaged, or interpreted as a competition score, causal result, market-power finding, or legal antitrust market.
Selected evidence profiles
Continue from comparison to sector-level custodySource custody
One selection, four bounded evidence families.
The published sector code joins the releases. Values, ranks, gaps, periods, and denominators remain legible as separate evidence rather than a synthetic verdict.
2017 Economic Census Concentration of Largest Firms
U.S. Census Bureau / accessed 2026-07-18
2023 Business Dynamics Statistics
U.S. Census Bureau / accessed 2026-07-19
FY2023-FY2024 HSR acquired-entity composition
Federal Trade Commission and U.S. Department of Justice / 34 exact release-sector joins
This studio places separate published measures side by side. Every rank uses the full 17-sector universe, and every gap subtracts exact values only within the same metric and unit. Ranks, percentiles, intensities, and gaps cannot be compared across measures, summed, averaged, or interpreted as a competition score, causal result, market-power finding, or legal antitrust market. This bridge joins only the exact broad-sector NAICS code published by both sources. The 2022 Economic Census sector row measures economy-wide employer-firm structure, while each HSR sector aggregate sums the release's published acquired-entity 3-digit rows. The shared code does not define a legal antitrust market, measure a sector merger rate, establish competitive harm, or score agency performance.