2002 Survey of Business Owners: Hispanic-Owned Firms

South Carolina Hispanic-Owned Firms by Kind of Business: 2002

Kind of Business	All firms 1/		Firms with paid employees
	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Employees (number)	Annual payroll ($1,000)
Total for all sectors	3,015	691,372	681	614,690	5,584	129,794
Forestry, fishing, hunting, and agricultural support services	S	S	S	D	a	D
Mining	-	-	-	-	-	-
Utilities	S	D	S	S	S	S
Construction	596	111,310	130	86,210	627	20,840
Manufacturing	S	D	S	D	f	D
Wholesale trade	49	43,303	S	S	S	S
Retail trade	245	123,694	68	118,146	701	10,612
Transportation and warehousing	91	8,332	3	3,196	72	1,492
Information	13	418	-	-	-	-
Finance and insurance	S	D	S	S	S	S
Real estate and rental and leasing	S	S	S	D	b	D
Professional, scientific, and technical services	354	60,558	39	56,776	535	25,343
Management of companies and enterprises	1	D	1	D	a	D
Administrative and support and waste management and remediation services	262	15,250	S	S	S	S
Educational services	75	1,699	S	D	a	D
Health care and social assistance	140	23,526	S	S	S	S
Arts, entertainment, and recreation	64	772	-	-	-	-
Accomodation and food services	210	100,219	184	99,509	1,970	25,571
Other services (except public administration)	491	13,597	51	6,624	100	1,208
Industries not classified	-	-	-	-	-	-

 

Hispanic-Owned Firms by Detailed Hispanic or Latino Origin: 2002

Geographic Area	All firms 1/		Firms with paid employees
	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Employees (number)	Annual payroll ($1,000)
Hispanic or Latino	3,015	691,372	681	614,690	5,584	129,794
Mexican, Mexican American, Chicano	906	359,746	312	340,503	3,183	70,914
Puerto Rican	573	29,135	65	14,189	289	4,413
Cuban	134	59,923	24	53,290	667	18,458
Other Spanish/Hispanic/Latino	1,359	199,548	270	168,751	1,344	32,880

Note: Detail may not add to total because a Hispanic or Latino firm may be of any race. Moreover, each owner had the option of selecting more than one race and therefore is included in each race selected.
 

South Carolina Counties with 100 or More Hispanic-Owned Firms: 2002

Geographic Area	All firms 1/		Firms with paid employees
	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Employees (number)	Annual payroll ($1,000)
South Carolina	3,015	691,372	681	614,690	5,584	129,794
Beaufort	S	S	S	S	S	S
Berkeley	209	12,502	S	D	c	D
Charleston	302	61,038	90	53,170	351	11,961
Dorchester	149	31,825	29	26,676	314	5,257
Greenville	387	57,358	78	48,750	500	15,169
Horry	184	22,515	34	D	c	D
Lexington	163	27,858	49	26,151	638	9,174
Richland	327	143,498	S	S	S	S
Spartanburg	160	23,142	S	D	c	D

 

South Carolina Places with 100 or More Hispanic-Owned Firms: 2002

Geographic Area	All firms 1/		Firms with paid employees
	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000)	Employees (number)	Annual payroll ($1,000)
South Carolina	3,015	691,372	681	614,690	5,584	129,794
Charleston	105	16,034	S	D	b	D
Columbia	149	107,670	S	S	S	S
Greenville	111	30,320	S	S	S	S
Hilton Head Island	125	8,509	28	5,943	106	1208
North Charleston	118	19,418	S	S	S	S

 

Note: - Represents zero.
D: Withheld to avoid disclosing data for individual companies; data are included in higher level totals.
S: Estimates are suppressed when publication standards are not met, such as: the firm count is less than 3, or the relative standard error of the sales and receipts is 50 percent or more.
a: 0 to 19 employees.
b: 20 to 99 employees
c: 100 to 249 employees
e: 250 to 499 employees
f: 500 to 999 employees
g: 1,000 to 2,499 employees

1/: All firms data include both firms with paid employees and firms with no paid employees.

2/: Data do not include crop or animal production.

3/: Data do not include large certificated passenger carriers that report to the Office of Airline Information, U.S. Department of Transportation.

4/: Data do not include funds, trusts, and other financial vehicles (NAICS 525), except real estate investment trusts (NAICS 525930).

5/: Data do not include religious, grantmaking, civic, professional, and similar organizations (NAICS 813) and private households (NAICS 814).
 

Changes in the Number of Hispanic-Owned Businesses and their Receipts: 1997 to 2002

Geographic Area	All firms in 2002		All firms in 1997		Change from 1997 to 2002
	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000,000)	Firms (number)	Sales and receipts ($1,000,000)	Net change in firm count	Firms (percent)	Net change in receipts	Sales and receipts (percent)
South Carolina	3,015	691	2,036	251	979	48	441	176

 

The Survey of Business Owners (SBO), formerly known as the Surveys of Minority- and Women-Owned Business Enterprises (SMOBE/SWOBE), provides statistics that describe the composition of U.S. businesses by gender, Hispanic or Latino origin, and race. Additional statistics include owner's age, education level, veteran status, and primary function in the business; family- and home-based businesses; types of customers and workers; and sources of financing for expansion, capital improvements, or start-up. Economic policymakers in federal, state and local governments use the SBO data to understand conditions of business success and failure by comparing census-to-census changes in business performances and by comparing minority-/nonminority- and women-/men-owned businesses.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Company Statistics Division, Economic Census Branch.

For more information on the Survey of Business Owners, please visit the U.S. Census Bureau's 2002 Survey of Business Owners web site.