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Share of businesses with under 10 employees: U.S. states ranked (2023)

Measure: Share of businesses with under 10 employees (%, 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.

Licence: Public domain (U.S. federal government work).
Data last updated: 2026-11-09

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National value: 73 (United States).

Small states, hard to see on the map:

DC 67.2 %
RI 73.5 %
DE 73.6 %
CT 71.1 %
NJ 74 %
MD 71.2 %
MA 71.8 %
VT 75.5 %
NH 71.6 %

Lowest: 67.2 to 70.9 %
Group 2: 70.9 to 71.6 %
Group 3: 71.6 to 72.7 %
Group 4: 72.7 to 74.1 %
Highest: 74.1 to 79.5 %

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.


1	Wyoming	79.5
2	Montana	78.3
3	Florida	78.2
4	New York	77.1
5	Alaska	76.4
6	Maine	75.9
7	Idaho	75.8
8	Colorado	75.6
9	Vermont	75.5
10	California	74.8
11	South Dakota	74.1
11	Washington	74.1
13	New Jersey	74
13	Utah	74
15	Delaware	73.6
15	Georgia	73.6
17	Rhode Island	73.5
18	Illinois	73.4
18	Oregon	73.4
20	Hawaii	72.8
21	Oklahoma	72.7
22	Nebraska	72.6
23	South Carolina	72.2
24	Arizona	71.9
24	North Carolina	71.9
26	Arkansas	71.8
26	Massachusetts	71.8
26	North Dakota	71.8
29	Iowa	71.6
29	Nevada	71.6
29	New Hampshire	71.6
32	Kansas	71.5
33	Minnesota	71.3
33	Mississippi	71.3
33	Texas	71.3
36	Maryland	71.2
37	Connecticut	71.1
37	Missouri	71.1
37	Virginia	71.1
40	Louisiana	71
41	New Mexico	70.9
42	Michigan	70.8
43	Pennsylvania	70.7
44	West Virginia	70.6
45	Alabama	70.2
46	Kentucky	69.4
47	Indiana	69.3
47	Wisconsin	69.3
49	Tennessee	68.1
50	Ohio	67.6
51	District of Columbia	67.2

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 share of businesses with under 10 employees (%, 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-share-of-businesses-with-under-10-employees/

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