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Business establishments per 1,000 residents: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Business establishments per 1,000 residents (derived). All 50 states and District of Columbia with data in Business establishments, jobs and payroll by state, ranked from highest to lowest. Reference period: 2023.

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Data last updated
2026-11-09
Download full table CSVSource: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns (opens in a new tab)Source: U.S. Census Bureau (opens in a new tab)

National value: 24.8 (United States).

Washington: 25.8Idaho: 29.5Montana: 37.6North Dakota: 32.3Minnesota: 26.8Michigan: 22.8Ohio: 21.6Pennsylvania: 23.6New York: 27.4Vermont: 32.2New Hampshire: 28Maine: 30.9Arizona: 21.9California: 26.3New Mexico: 21.2Texas: 21.8Louisiana: 23.6Mississippi: 20.5Alabama: 20.7Florida: 28.2Georgia: 23.6South Carolina: 22.8North Carolina: 23.7Virginia: 24.1District of Columbia: 34.9Maryland: 23Delaware: 28.7New Jersey: 25.3Connecticut: 24.5Rhode Island: 26.8Massachusetts: 26Oregon: 28.8Utah: 27.7Wyoming: 40.8Nevada: 24.1Colorado: 30.9South Dakota: 31.7Nebraska: 28.4Kansas: 25.8Oklahoma: 23.7Iowa: 25.9Missouri: 24.4Wisconsin: 24.4Illinois: 25.5Kentucky: 20.7Arkansas: 22.9Tennessee: 21West Virginia: 20.2Indiana: 22.6Alaska: 30.2Hawaii: 22.9

Small states, hard to see on the map:

  • Lowest: 20.2 to 22.8
  • Group 2: 22.8 to 24.1
  • Group 3: 24.1 to 26
  • Group 4: 26 to 28.8
  • Highest: 28.8 to 40.8
The map is a visual summary; every value is in the table below, which is the keyboard and screen-reader path. Groups are quintiles of the values shown (a derived grouping). Boundaries: Natural Earth (public domain), simplified. Alaska and Hawaii are shown as insets, not to scale.

Rank is derived by Quadranac: 1 = highest value; ties share a rank. The ranked value is itself derived; see the source table for the method. Values are as published in the source table.

1Wyoming40.8
2Montana37.6
3District of Columbia34.9
4North Dakota32.3
5Vermont32.2
6South Dakota31.7
7Colorado30.9
7Maine30.9
9Alaska30.2
10Idaho29.5
11Oregon28.8
12Delaware28.7
13Nebraska28.4
14Florida28.2
15New Hampshire28
16Utah27.7
17New York27.4
18Minnesota26.8
18Rhode Island26.8
20California26.3
21Massachusetts26
22Iowa25.9
23Kansas25.8
23Washington25.8
25Illinois25.5
26New Jersey25.3
27Connecticut24.5
28Missouri24.4
28Wisconsin24.4
30Nevada24.1
30Virginia24.1
32North Carolina23.7
32Oklahoma23.7
34Georgia23.6
34Louisiana23.6
34Pennsylvania23.6
37Maryland23
38Arkansas22.9
38Hawaii22.9
40Michigan22.8
40South Carolina22.8
42Indiana22.6
43Arizona21.9
44Texas21.8
45Ohio21.6
46New Mexico21.2
47Tennessee21
48Alabama20.7
48Kentucky20.7
50Mississippi20.5
51West Virginia20.2

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), all sectors (NAICS 00), by employment size class
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates Program, July 1, 2023 resident population (denominator). Reference period: 2023.

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U.S. states ranked by business establishments per 1,000 residents (derived) (2023). Data: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns, County Business Patterns 2023 (API dataset 2023/cbp), all sectors (NAICS 00), by employment size class; rank derived by Quadranac. Data last updated 2026-11-09. https://quadranac.com/rankings/us-states-by-business-establishments-per-1000-residents/

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