Key Statistics B-to-B Catalogers Ought to Know

2. Actual number of governments. There are more than 88,000 governments in the U.S., and that’s counting both the federal government as one and each state as one. Here are the others:

* 3,034 counties;

* 19,429 municipalities;

* 16,504 townships;

* 35,052 special district governments;

* 13,506 school districts;