There are roughly 7,900 businesses in Irvine, and they collectively employ about 182,000 people.
Nearly 42% of all the businesses employ one to four workers. 5.4% have 50 to 99 workers.
Nearly 40—or roughly 0.5%—have 500 or more employees. There are 1,615 Irvine businesses in the services sector. Nearly 1,300 are in the finance, insurance and real estate industries.
More than 900 are in retail trade.
