# US states by employer firm births, 2023

All 51 values come from U.S. Census Bureau for 2023, so the places are comparable.

- Indicator id: `employer_firm_births`
- Unit: count
- Definition: 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.
- Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978 (https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_fa.csv)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/us-census-bureau
- Retrieved: 2026-10-22
- Citation: U.S. Census Bureau. Business Dynamics Statistics by firm age: employer firms of age zero, all covered industries, nation, states and counties from 1978. https://www2.census.gov/programs-surveys/bds/tables/time-series/2023/bds2023_st_fa.csv. Retrieved 2026-10-22.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/rankings/employer-firm-births/us-states

| Rank | Place | count |
|---:|---|---:|
| 1 | California | 70,055 |
| 2 | Florida | 51,518 |
| 3 | Texas | 47,108 |
| 4 | New York | 33,208 |
| 5 | Georgia | 17,841 |
| 6 | North Carolina | 16,322 |
| 7 | Illinois | 16,056 |
| 8 | New Jersey | 14,547 |
| 9 | Pennsylvania | 14,288 |
| 10 | Washington | 12,280 |
| 11 | Ohio | 11,994 |
| 12 | Colorado | 11,839 |
| 13 | Virginia | 11,835 |
| 14 | Michigan | 11,814 |
| 15 | Arizona | 11,411 |
| 16 | Massachusetts | 9,985 |
| 17 | Tennessee | 8,740 |
| 18 | Missouri | 8,453 |
| 19 | Indiana | 8,106 |
| 20 | Maryland | 7,811 |
| 21 | South Carolina | 7,641 |
| 22 | Oregon | 7,399 |
| 23 | Minnesota | 7,296 |
| 24 | Utah | 7,199 |
| 25 | Wisconsin | 6,856 |
| 26 | Nevada | 5,829 |
| 27 | Alabama | 5,688 |
| 28 | Louisiana | 5,480 |
| 29 | Oklahoma | 5,463 |
| 30 | Kentucky | 4,803 |
| 31 | Connecticut | 4,349 |
| 32 | Idaho | 4,074 |
| 33 | Kansas | 3,975 |
| 34 | Arkansas | 3,866 |
| 35 | Iowa | 3,717 |
| 36 | Mississippi | 3,132 |
| 37 | Nebraska | 2,871 |
| 38 | Montana | 2,708 |
| 39 | New Mexico | 2,617 |
| 40 | Maine | 2,288 |
| 41 | Delaware | 2,248 |
| 42 | New Hampshire | 2,040 |
| 43 | Wyoming | 1,808 |
| 44 | Hawaii | 1,736 |
| 45 | South Dakota | 1,605 |
| 46 | Rhode Island | 1,563 |
| 47 | West Virginia | 1,532 |
| 48 | North Dakota | 1,287 |
| 49 | Alaska | 1,222 |
| 50 | District of Columbia | 1,129 |
| 51 | Vermont | 1,068 |