Top 20 US states by new businesses likely to hire, last week · 🇺🇸 United States
High-propensity applications for a new business tax ID (EIN), week by week
Updated · likely-employer applications (a week)
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Why these 20
U.S. Census Bureau Business Formation Statistics, high-propensity series: EIN applications that the Census Bureau's model rates as likely to become businesses with payroll (for example a corporation, a hiring date on the form, or an industry such as manufacturing or restaurants). It's the closest open weekly measure of real startups; the all-applications list also counts sole traders and side businesses that never hire. Not every application becomes an employer, and big states lead on size alone.
- 1 C
- 2 F
- 3 T
- 4 N
- 5 G
- 6 I
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7
N
North Carolina
1,040
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- 8 N
- 9 P
- 10 O
- 11 M
- 12 A
- 13 C
- 14 V
- 15 W
- 16 M
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17
M
Massachusetts
600
- 18 T
- 19 M
- 20 I
How it is measured
Census BFS weekly file bfs_state_apps_weekly_nsa.csv, series HBA_NSA (not seasonally adjusted), latest week, 50 states and DC; checked every 12 hours, the Census Bureau adds a week every Thursday.
References
- U.S. Census Bureau: weekly high-propensity business applications by state, U.S. Census Bureau (public domain (U.S. government work)). Checked 2026-10-21 09:00 UTC.
- Business Formation Statistics, weekly business applications by state, U.S. Census Bureau, 2026 week 39 (9/27/2026 to 10/3/2026).
