Market map · United States

Automotive in United States_

As of 4 November 2026, 148,289 automotive companies are based in United States: 5,964 with 51+ employees, 3,593 hiring right now, led by vehicle repair & detailing and Houston.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies, confident classification
148,289
51+ employees
5,964 · 4%
Hiring now
3,593 · 1,181 new in 30 d
Largest segment
Vehicle repair & detailing · 85,139
Top city
Houston · 1,710
Running cold outbound
24
148,289automotive companies in United States
5,964with 51+ employees
3,593hiring on their own career site today
1,181opened a role in the last 30 days
02 — Segments

Automotive in United States, by segment

Click a segment for its own map. Second column: companies hiring right now.

By sub-vertical
companies · hiring
Vehicle repair & detailing
85,139 · 651
Vehicle & parts retail
62,170 · 2,828
Vehicle & transport equipment manufacturing
7,120 · 174
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
27,873 · 4
2-10 employees
91,586 · 935
11-50 employees
22,866 · 1,176
51-200 employees
4,638 · 1,008
201-500 employees
837 · 268
501-1000 employees
240 · 93
1001-5000 employees
171 · 75
5001-10000 employees
35 · 15
10,001+ employees
43 · 19
By city
companiesshare
Houston
1,7101%
Miami
1,0221%
Louisville
9781%
Phoenix
9381%
Dallas
7551%
Orlando
7410%
San Diego
7030%
Las Vegas
6830%
San Antonio
6540%
New York
6330%
Chicago
6260%
Denver
6160%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest automotive companies in United States

The largest companies of the market, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

148,289 automotive companies in United States; 3,593 of them hiring.

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04 — What they run

The stack of automotive in United States

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148,289 automotive companies are based in United States: 5,964 with 51 or more employees, 3,593 hiring right now (1,181 opened a role in the last 30 days), led by vehicle repair & detailing and Houston. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/automotive/united-states)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

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  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
  • StackScripts and embeds on the company's pages plus SPF, DKIM, MX and CNAME records of its domain.
FAQ

Automotive in United States: questions

How many automotive companies are there in United States?

148,289 with a confident industry and country classification, read from their own websites; 5,964 of them have 51 or more employees.

How do you know a company belongs to automotive?

We classify every company from its own website into a vertical, a sub-vertical and a leaf, each with a confidence score. This page counts companies with industry confidence of at least 0.7 and country confidence of at least 0.8; the company list shows only rich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount.

Which automotive companies in United States are hiring?

3,593 have an open role on their own career site today and 1,181 opened one in the last 30 days. The full list with the hiring manager is in the product; counting is free.

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