The date is the filing date: the day the state recorded the new business (for Texas, the sales-tax permit date), not the day we published. States publish on a lag, so this post went up after those filings appeared in our daily run.
Agriculture & Cannabis led the jump, with 22 new filings vs a 12 daily average.
TX figures reflect permits from about a week ago.
New businesses by state
| State | New businesses | Hot |
|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 502 | 99 |
| New York | 754 | 174 |
| Pennsylvania | Not published by the state yet (runs about two weeks behind) | |
| Connecticut | 160 | 47 |
| Texas | 968 | 160 |
| Total (4 states) | 2,384 | 480 (20%) |
Top industries
- Retail & E-commerce: 514
- Professional Services: 243
- Restaurants, Food & Bars: 173
Top counties
- Harris, TX: 130
- Queens, NY: 127
- Kings, NY: 113
Sources and lag
- Counts come from official state data: Colorado, New York, Pennsylvania and Connecticut business filings, and Texas Comptroller sales-tax permits. See data sources.
- PA data runs about two weeks behind. Pennsylvania counts for a date usually appear later, and this post is updated when they do.
- TX counts are new sales-tax permits, not Secretary of State formations, and arrive in roughly weekly batches.
- Weekends and holidays: states record few filings then, and some post them on the next business day, so we publish weekdays only and skip days with incomplete data.
- Counts are businesses after we filter out shells and mail-drop addresses; nonprofits stay in with low scores. Top industries use our 19 insurance industries and leave out unclassified filings and holding shells.
- Hot = a lead in a high-need industry (trucking & transportation, construction & contractors, restaurants, food & bars, healthcare & wellness, auto services & dealers, security & staffing) scoring 75+. How we score.
- Comparisons use the average of the 7 business days before this filing date.