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Highest business application trend by state

One-year change in business applications.

Year-over-year change in new business applications. A rise signals more local business-starting activity; it is not the same as new employer businesses, which Census can confirm only later.

  1. 1Washington28.6%
  2. 2Wyoming22.6%
  3. 3Missouri19.2%
  4. 4Kentucky18.3%
  5. 5New Mexico17.6%
  6. 6Kansas17.4%
  7. 7Ohio15.5%
  8. 8Alaska15.4%
  9. 9Wisconsin15.1%
  10. 10Tennessee14.3%
  11. 11Michigan12.8%
  12. 12Mississippi12.1%
  13. 13Arizona11.9%
  14. 14North Carolina11.7%
  15. 15Montana11.0%
  16. 16Illinois10.8%
  17. 17Texas10.8%
  18. 18Louisiana10.4%
  19. 19Colorado10.0%
  20. 20Virginia9.8%
  21. 21Nebraska9.6%
  22. 22Pennsylvania9.4%
  23. 23Iowa9.1%
  24. 24Minnesota9.1%
  25. 25South Carolina9.0%
  26. 26Arkansas8.7%
  27. 27Hawaii8.6%
  28. 28West Virginia8.1%
  29. 29Alabama7.8%
  30. 30California7.1%
  31. 31Idaho6.8%
  32. 32New Hampshire6.7%
  33. 33Connecticut6.6%
  34. 34Utah6.3%
  35. 35Maryland6.1%
  36. 36Oklahoma6.0%
  37. 37North Dakota5.3%
  38. 38New Jersey5.3%
  39. 39South Dakota5.3%
  40. 40District of Columbia5.2%
  41. 41Rhode Island5.1%
  42. 42Massachusetts4.9%
  43. 43Georgia4.7%
  44. 44Oregon4.7%
  45. 45Vermont3.8%
  46. 46Nevada3.4%
  47. 47New York3.1%
  48. 48Florida2.1%
  49. 49Delaware1.1%
  50. 50Maine0.5%
  51. 51Indiana-0.7%
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Source: U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics. · How this is built