North Carolina · Market data
Buncombe County, NC supports 7 taxi and limousine businesses across 279,210 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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Key takeaways
Every row is read from the federal business census, or is arithmetic over it. Derived rows show their working.
| Measure | Buncombe County |
|---|---|
| County | Buncombe County, NC |
| State | North Carolina |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 279,210 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 7 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag H — approximate. | 27 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $701,000 |
| Taxi and ridesharing establishments | 3 |
| Taxi and ridesharing employeesCensus noise flag G — approximate. | 18 |
| Taxi and ridesharing annual payroll | $437,000 |
| Limousine establishments | 4 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag J — approximate. | 9 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $264,000 |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 3 |
| Operators with 5-9 employees | 4 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived7 establishments ÷ 279,210 residents × 100,000. | 2.51 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived3 of 7 establishments. | 42.9% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$701,000 payroll ÷ 27 employees. | $25,963 |
| Taxi share of taxi-plus-limousine operatorsderived3 taxi ÷ 7 taxi and limousine establishments. | 42.9% |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 159 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
Buncombe County, NC has 7 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 27 people — 3 in taxi and ridesharing services and 4 in limousine service.
The published operator base here is very small, so a single new entrant materially changes the local market.
42.9 per cent of operators in Buncombe County, NC employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
A relatively small share of operators are micro-businesses, so the work is concentrated in larger fleets where controller workflow, account billing and reporting carry more weight than ease of setup.
The full distribution: 3 with 1-4 employees and 4 with 5-9 employees.
Buncombe County, NC has 2.51 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are close to the national midpoint for a published county market.
Within North Carolina the median is 1.28 per 100,000, so this county is denser than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $25,963 per employee across the sector in Buncombe County, NC.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kern County, CA | 7 | 0.76 |
| Adams County, CO | 7 | 1.29 |
| Kent County, DE | 7 | 3.63 |
| Lake County, FL | 7 | 1.58 |
| Maui County, HI | 7 | 4.28 |
| Douglas County, NE | 7 | 1.16 |
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