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2018 District of Columbia State Fact Sheet

 

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    Quick Facts:

  • In 2018, there were over 77 thousand businesses in the District of Columbia of which more than 34 thousand were minority-owned firms.

  • Minority-owned firms in the District of Columbia employed over 53 thousand people in 2018.

  • Minority-owned firms represented 47.8% of all firms located in the state.

  • The number of minorityowned firms in the District of Columbia increased 0.7% between 2017 and 2018.