How Many Veteran Owned Business Firms Are There?

April 29, 2010 - PRLog -- Boston, MA. Published by the SBA Office Of Advocacy. How many veteran owned firms are there? Census found that in 2002, 14.5% of all respondent business owners were veterans, and about 7% of those were service disabled. About 12.2% of all businesses were veteran owned Advocacy estimates that there were about 29.6 million business in the U.S. in 2009. If the 12.2% of veteran ownership in 2002 remained true in 2009, an estimate of 3.6 million veteran owned firms would result, of which perhaps 250,000 were owned by service disabled veterans.
Veteran owned firms were similar to all U.S. firms in most respects, except for their age. Their distribution by size was nearly identical to all firms, both in terms of revenues and employees.This correspondence also was true of their distribution in most all cases.

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