Reference USA databases of US business and consumer information

By on December 31, 2014 in Data

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InfoGroup’s Reference USA provides basic information on over 25 million businesses and over 270 million consumers in the US and Canada.

  • Business data includes company name, location (address and geolocation coordinates), industries, size (sales volume and number of employees), year established, names of owners and executives, and more.
  • Consumer data includes: name, location (address and geolocation coordinates), estimated home values and household incomes, and more.

Recent enhancements include map-based and radius search features and historical business data (dating back to 2003).

For more sources of company information and historical business data, visit the MIT Libraries’ Companies research guide.  Want even older data?  Download business data back to 1997 from the ReferenceUSA Business Historical Data Files in the MIT Libraries Dataverse.