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
40 selected exact values against a fixed 17-sector rank universe.- Reference
- 53
- Real estate and rental and leasing
- Full universe
- 17
- rank denominator
- Source families
- 4
- kept separate
Full-universe position tracks
Ten measures, one rank axis per row
Measure17-sector position53Real estate and rental and leasing54Professional, scientific, and technical services62Health care and social assistance56Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services
Current structure2 measures
2022 / Economic CensusMedian HHIHHI points
#17#1
116.9#11 / 17
94.9#12 / 17
35.8#15 / 17
182.0#9 / 17
Median CR4percent
#17#1
29.4%#9 / 17
17.8%#12 / 17
8.4%#15 / 17
23.5%#10 / 17
Strict industry change2 measures
2017-2022 / Economic Census strict matchesHHI changeHHI points
#17#1
2.3#8 / 17
0.1#11 / 17
1.4#10 / 17
10.7#5 / 17
HHI increase sharepercent
#17#1
56.3%#7 / 17
50.0%#10 / 17
53.8%#9 / 17
61.5%#5 / 17
Business flows6 measures
2023 / Business Dynamics StatisticsEntry ratepercent
#17#1
12.647%#5 / 17
12.473%#6 / 17
10.783%#9 / 17
12.905%#4 / 17
Exit ratepercent
#17#1
11.301%#4 / 17
11.031%#6 / 17
7.708%#13 / 17
11.833%#2 / 17
Job creationpercent
#17#1
17.635%#3 / 17
15.072%#8 / 17
13.539%#11 / 17
13.743%#9 / 17
Job destructionpercent
#17#1
13.864%#3 / 17
12.633%#6 / 17
9.450%#12 / 17
14.829%#1 / 17
Net job creationpercentage points
#17#1
+3.771 pp#6 / 17
+2.438 pp#9 / 17
+4.089 pp#5 / 17
-1.087 pp#17 / 17
Excess reallocationpercent
#17#1
27.729%#2 / 17
25.267%#5 / 17
18.899%#12 / 17
27.485%#3 / 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.