Data Axle Reference Solutions U.S. Business Location Data

Data Axle Reference Solutions, formerly ReferenceUSA, contains two directories--residential and business. Records include over 12 million U.S. businesses and 120 million U.S. residents. Businesses include private, public, and non-profit organizations, regardless of employee size or sales. This dataset of Data Axle’s business database provides 52 attributes about tens of millions of businesses across the United States for almost every business from the Fortune 500 down to mom-and-pop shops and work-from-home freelancers. The Data Axle business database is available in its entirety for the years 2017 to 2020. The data can be downloaded in a single commas separated values (.csv) file for each year of interest. This file is approximately 5 GB in size after de-compressing the .zip archive. To load the .csv in memory requires a minimum of 32 GB of RAM. To access the Data Axle data on low-memory systems, the .csv file for each year as been split into subsets by US Census defined geographic regions, as well as the more granular geographic divisions. The file census-regions-divisions.csv identifies the states and territories that belong to each region (5 regions plus territories) and divisions (9 divisions plus territories).