Employer firm births
New employer firms: firms of age zero in March of the year, meaning that every establishment of the firm had its first employees during the previous twelve months. United States: Census Bureau Business Dynamics Statistics, which calls these firms startups.
A firm counts only when it has employees, so a business without staff is not a birth, and a new branch, merger or change of ownership of an existing firm is not a birth either. Not the same as business_applications (requests for an employer number) or enterprise_births (European business demography). The year is the twelve months to March: 2023 compares March 2022 with March 2023.
Key facts
- Employer firm births in the United States was 508,777 in 2023, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
- California had the highest employer firm births of 51 states in 2023, at 70,055, and Vermont the lowest, at 1,068. Source: the U.S. Census Bureau.
- Published for 3,196 places, with figures from 1978 to 2023.
Rankings
- US states
- US counties
- Counties in Texas
- Counties in Georgia
- Counties in Virginia
- Counties in Kentucky
- Counties in Missouri
- Counties in Kansas
- Counties in Illinois
- Counties in North Carolina
- Counties in Iowa
- Counties in Tennessee
US states by employer firm births, 2023
Places with data
Countries
Regions and states
- California
- Texas
- Florida
- New York
- Pennsylvania
- Illinois
- Ohio
- Georgia
- North Carolina
- Michigan
- New Jersey
- New Mexico
- Minnesota
- Montana
- Nebraska
- Massachusetts
Provinces and counties
- Los Angeles County
- Cook County
- Harris County
- Maricopa County
- San Diego County
- Orange County
- Miami-Dade County
- Dallas County
- Kings County
- Riverside County
- Minnehaha County
- Kent County
- Johnson County
- St. Louis County
- Lancaster County
- Nueces County
Use this data in your AI agent
Invokely serves this figure to AI assistants through MCP and to code through a REST API, with the source and citation attached. Ask your assistant:
Which places have the highest employer firm births? Use official data and cite it.
rank_places {"indicator":"employer_firm_births","level":"region","within":"United States"}
GET https://invokely.ai/api/v1/rank?indicator=employer_firm_births&level=region&within=United%20States