Rhode Island has 95,390 small businesses, according to the most current federal data available.
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Of those 95,390 small businesses in Rhode Island, 32,098 have employees. The remaining 63,292 are Rhode Island small businesses that have no employees.
These small business statistics for Rhode Island do not include all self-employed individuals working in Rhode Island. According to the latest Federal data, the number of self-employed persons in Rhode Island (including incorporated companies that file via Schedule C) was 52,004.
We hope this information is helpful to those of you who are selling to small businesses. Please note that more current small business statistics for Rhode Island may be available. To get the latest small business statistics, visit www.sba.gov/advo/research/. If you are intererest in buying small business leads, please read our article on Buying Lead Databases Online.
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