“Nonemployer businesses, establishments without paid employees, in the Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation subsector (North American Industry Classification System (NAICS 485) increased by 59.4 percent from 362,445 in 2014 to 577,809 in 2015, according to U.S. Census Bureau statistics released today. Receipts in this subsector increased 21.9 percent from $11.7 billion in 2014 to $14.3 billion in 2015. Examples of the Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation subsector include rideshares, taxi and limousine services, chartered bus, school bus and special needs transportation. The Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation subsector had the largest increase within the Transportation and Warehousing sector (NAICS 48-49). “The Transportation and Warehousing sector reached 1.5 million nonemployer establishments in 2015 leading all sectors in both rate of change (with a 22.2 percent increase) and number of establishments gained (277,383),” said Jenny Tran, chief of the Business Statistics branch. “By comparison, when looking across all sectors covered, the number of establishments rose by 494,466 or 2.1 percent to 24.3 million from 2014 to 2015.” Additionally for this sector, the District of Columbia, Rhode Island and Maryland led all states or equivalents in the rate of increase in the number of nonemployer establishments from 2014 to 2015, at 54.1 percent, 43.7 percent and 39.9 percent, respectively. The District of Columbia topped all states or equivalents in the rate of increase in receipts for the Transportation and Warehousing sector at 20.4 percent to $94.2 million, followed by Massachusetts (13.8 percent to $1.1 billion) and Rhode Island (13.5 percent to $126.1 million) in 2015. The overall rate of increase in nonemployer receipts was 2.9 percent from 2014 to 2015, reaching $1.1 trillion. The Real Estate and Rental and Leasing sector (NAICS 53) led all sectors in total receipts, with $259.8 billion in 2015. Receipts for the Accommodation and Food Services sector (NAICS 72) climbed the fastest, with a growth of 9.0 percent to $17.7 billion in 2015. Receipts per establishment among sole proprietorships rose 1.0 percent from 2014 to 2015, reaching $34,242. Sole proprietorships accounted for 86.4 percent of nonemployer establishments.   These data are all part of Nonemployer Statistics: 2015, which publishes statistics on businesses in over 450 industries at varying levels of geography, including national, state, county, metropolitan statistical area and combined statistical area. The data are also presented by Legal Form of Organization as filed with the Internal Revenue Service, and by Receipt Size Class…”