Arizona Business by the Numbers: 2026 Company Breakdown

Key findings

• Arizona ranks 8th nationally with 1,846,881 business records — 2.9% of all 64,799,929 U.S. records in the directory.
• Mostly small businesses. Arizona is 19th for records of companies with 500+ employees (1,767), with 9.6 per 10,000 records against 14.0 nationally (46th of 52 states).
• Arizona has more financial, real estate and consumer than the U.S. mix:Financial is 7.1% of the state’s records against 5.1% nationally (1.4×); Real Estate is 5.7% of the state’s records against 4.4% nationally (1.3×); Consumer is 16.7% of the state’s records against 13.9% nationally (1.2×).
• Phoenix is the state’s largest business hub, with 24.9% of all Arizona records.
• Business is concentrated in a few metros: Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson together hold 47.2% of the state’s records.

How Arizona ranks nationally

Arizona and its closest neighbours by total business records. Select a state to open its own study.

Top Arizona cities by number of business records

These 10 cities account for 74.4% of all records in Arizona. Select any city to browse its full company list.

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Arizona businesses by industry

Every record is classified by its primary industry using NAICS/SIC codes; the shares are of all Arizona records. Select a sector to see those Arizona companies.

What sets Arizona apart

Sectors that make up a bigger share of Arizona’s records than of the U.S. as a whole. A ratio of 2.0× means the sector is twice as common here as nationally. Select a sector to browse it.

Arizona businesses by size

Most records in every state are small businesses. In Arizona, 3.46% of records with a known size have 51 or more employees, against 1.77% nationally. 489 records belong to companies with $1 billion or more in revenue.

What the numbers show

Arizona’s 1,846,881 records place it 8th nationally, 2.9% of the U.S. total, and 19th for large employers. That large-employer rank is well below its rank by records: its business base is weighted toward small companies. Activity clusters in its largest metros — Phoenix, Scottsdale and Tucson alone account for 47.2% of the state’s records — and the state leans toward financial, real estate and consumer compared with the rest of the country. For buyers and sellers, that means the deepest pools of suppliers sit in a handful of cities and sectors; the charts above link straight into each so you can shortlist by capability and region.

Methodology

Figures count records in Factur’s U.S. business directory as of July 2026, classified by city and primary industry using NAICS/SIC codes. Records cover manufacturers, suppliers and businesses of all sizes. They are not a count of unique companies: one company can have several records (for example one per department or location), and some records are duplicates. That affects large companies most, so treat raw totals as an upper bound and rely on the ranks, shares and comparisons, which it affects much less. These are directory totals, not official census figures. Percentages are computed against the Arizona directory total; size shares use records with a known employee count. Data compiled by Factur, a sales and marketing firm for B2B manufacturers.