Construction and Real Estate Are the Highest Grossing Industries Among Sole Proprietors in Rural America

Construction and Real Estate Are the Highest Grossing Industries Among Sole Proprietors in Rural America

Editor’s Note: This post is from our data newsletter, the Rural Index, headed by Sarah Melotte, the Daily Yonder’s data reporter. Subscribe to get a weekly map or graph straight to your inbox. Construction and real estate saw the highest revenues among all nonemployer businesses in rural America in 2023, grossing more than $69 billion, according to my analysis of the latest Economic Census data. Approximately 80% of small businesses are nonemplo…