Health care and social assistance firms use AI at about the US rate, half the top sector's
Share of US employer businesses that said they had used AI somewhere in their business between September 7 and 20, 2026: the four sectors with the highest use, health care and social assistance, all businesses, and the two sectors with the lowest use
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| Category | Value |
|---|---|
| Information | 50.2% |
| Professional, scientific and technical services | 42.7% |
| Finance and insurance | 40.1% |
| Educational services | 39.9% |
| Health care and social assistance | 24.8% |
| All US businesses | 23.8% |
| Accommodation and food services | 10.1% |
| Agriculture, forestry, fishing and hunting | 9.5% |
About the data
- Sources
- US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (sector estimates) (opens in a new tab)Response Estimates sheet, question 7 (AI use in the last two weeks), answer Yes, period 202620
- BTOS national estimates (opens in a new tab)Response Estimates sheet, question 7, answer Yes, period 202620
- US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (about the survey) (opens in a new tab)About the survey: panels, schedule and coverage
- US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions (opens in a new tab)Sector 62, Health Care and Social Assistance, and industry 624410, Child Care Services
- Method
- Every two weeks, the Business Trends and Outlook Survey asks a sample of US employer businesses, not counting farms, whether they used AI in any business function in the last two weeks. These estimates cover September 7 to 20, 2026, and were published October 8, 2026. The chart shows the four sectors with the highest use, health care and social assistance, the all-business figure from the national file and the two sectors with the lowest use. The health care and social assistance sector includes more than healthcare, such as child care. Agriculture's estimate has a standard error of 4.2 points and educational services' 2.9; the others shown are under 2. In the same survey, 29.3% of health care and social assistance businesses expected to use AI in the next six months.
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Sources for the figures above: US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey (sector estimates) (opens in a new tab); Business Trends and Outlook Survey, national estimates (opens in a new tab).
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