California · Market data
Kern County, CA supports 7 taxi and limousine businesses across 922,529 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 | Kern County |
|---|---|
| County | Kern County, CA |
| State | California |
| Residents (Census 2024 estimate) | 922,529 |
| Taxi and limousine establishments | 7 |
| Taxi and limousine employeesCensus noise flag J — approximate. | 19 |
| Taxi and limousine annual payroll | $550,000 |
| Limousine establishments | 7 |
| Limousine employeesCensus noise flag J — approximate. | 19 |
| Limousine annual payroll | $550,000 |
| Operators with 1-4 employees | 6 |
| Operators per 100,000 residentsderived7 establishments ÷ 922,529 residents × 100,000. | 0.76 |
| Share of operators with fewer than 5 employeesderived6 of 7 establishments. | 85.7% |
| Annual payroll per employeederived$550,000 payroll ÷ 19 employees. | $28,947 |
| Rank among published US county marketsderivedBy taxi and limousine establishments. | 151 of 348 |
Source: United States Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. About County Business Patterns.
Kern County, CA has 7 taxi and limousine businesses in the 2023 County Business Patterns, employing about 19 people.
The published operator base here is very small, so a single new entrant materially changes the local market.
85.7 per cent of operators in Kern County, CA employ fewer than five people, against a median of 67.1 per cent across the 348 published county markets.
Nearly every operator here employs fewer than five people. That is an owner-driver market: the person taking the booking is often the person driving, so software that needs a dedicated dispatcher to sit in front of it does not fit.
Kern County, CA has 0.76 taxi and limousine businesses per 100,000 residents, against a national median of 2.16.
Operators per head are below the national midpoint, so each business here covers more people — and usually more ground — than the typical market.
Within California the median is 1.93 per 100,000, so this county is thinner than its state norm.
Annual payroll works out at about $28,947 per employee across the sector in Kern County, CA.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| Columbia County, NY | 7 | 11.61 |
| Saratoga County, NY | 7 | 2.91 |
| Buncombe County, NC | 7 | 2.51 |
| Union County, NC | 7 | 2.66 |
| Montgomery County, OH | 7 | 1.30 |
| Washington County, OR | 7 | 1.15 |
| Luzerne County, PA | 7 | 2.11 |
| Beaufort County, SC | 7 | 3.47 |
| El Paso County, TX | 7 | 0.80 |
| Albemarle County, VA | 7 | 5.97 |
| Snohomish County, WA | 7 | 0.81 |
| La Crosse County, WI | 7 | 5.78 |
| Outagamie County, WI | 7 | 3.58 |
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