Rural entrepreneurship is sometimes called the ‘third leg’ of local economic development. While there is no single way to measure entrepreneurship, many rely on data for small firms to assess its breadth and depth.

This issue of “Kentucky: By the Numbers” is based on a special series created for the Kentucky Entrepreneurial Coaches Institute (KECI). To foster entrepreneurship, the KECI was formed to “encourage diversification of the economies in rural Kentucky.”

More information is available at http://www.uky.edu/Ag/CLD/KECI.

County Data Sheets

To find your county, click on the file that contains your county name. All counties are listed alphabetically.

To print your county, scroll down to it and print the current page(s) only. To print the entire series, print all pages in each file.

PDF Files:

~ ~ Each Data Sheet is 2 Pages Long ~ ~

EACH OF THE FILES CONTAINS 10 COUNTIES.

Adair County through Boyd County

Boyle County through Carlisle County

Carroll County through Daviess County

Edmonson County through Garrard County

Grant County through Hart County

Henderson County through Knott County

Knox County through Livingston County

Logan County through Martin County

Mason County through Nelson County

Nicholas County through Pulaski County

Robertson County through Todd County

Trigg County through Woodford County

Data Sources

These data are from: County Business Patterns: http://www.census.gov/epcd/cbp/view/cbpview.html

Bureau of Economic Analysis, REIS: http://www.bea.gov/bea/regional/reis

Statistics of U.S. Businesses: http://www.census.gov/csd/susb/susb.htm

Survey of Business Owners: http://www.census.gov/csd/sbo/