Massachusetts · Market data
Essex County, MA supports 54 taxi and limousine businesses across 823,938 residents. Below: how those operators break down by size, how the market compares with its state and the country, and what the sector pays — all from the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns.
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023.
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| Measure | Essex County |
|---|---|
| County | Essex County, MA |
| State | Massachusetts |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 823,938 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 54 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 409 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $11.7m |
| Taxi and ridesharing establishments | 30 |
| Taxi and ridesharing employeesCensus noise flag J — approximate. | 78 |
| Taxi and ridesharing annual payroll | $1.5m |
| Limousine establishments | 24 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 331 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $10.2m |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 32 |
| Operators with 5-9 employees | 15 |
| Operators with 10-19 employees | 4 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived54 establishments ÷ 823,938 residents × 100,000. | 6.55 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived32 of 54 establishments. | 59.3% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$11.7m payroll ÷ 409 employees. | $28,623 |
| Taxi share of taxi-plus-limousine operatorsderived30 taxi ÷ 54 taxi and limousine establishments. | 55.6% |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 23 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
Essex County, MA has 54 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 409 people — 30 in taxi and ridesharing services and 24 in limousine service.
A market of this size is big enough that customers have alternatives and small enough that reputation travels quickly.
59.3 per cent of operators in Essex County, MA employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
The market mixes very small operators with a tier of larger ones, so the same county contains businesses with genuinely different problems — coverage at the small end, coordination at the large.
The full distribution: 32 with 1-4 employees, 15 with 5-9 employees and 4 with 10-19 employees.
Essex County, MA has 6.55 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are far above the national midpoint, which is typical of counties serving an airport, a downtown core or a large visitor economy rather than only their own residents.
Within Massachusetts the median is 5.15 per 100,000, so this county is denser than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $28,623 per employee across the sector in Essex County, MA.
A figure that low usually reflects heavy part-time and split-shift working rather than low hourly rates, which makes accurate shift and per-driver accounting the difference between knowing your margin and guessing it.
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Closest by operator count, weighted towards the same state.
| County | Operators | Per 100,000 |
|---|---|---|
| Palm Beach County, FL | 55 | 3.48 |
| Santa Clara County, CA | 50 | 2.60 |
| Suffolk County, MA | 47 | 5.93 |
| San Mateo County, CA | 60 | 8.08 |
| Orange County, FL | 61 | 3.98 |
| Middlesex County, NJ | 45 | 5.06 |
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