Top 10 states by new business filings (NewFilings index)
New York leads with 5,751,706. The 10 US states with the most cumulative Secretary-of-State business filings recorded in the Palavir NewFilings dataset. Coverage is 12 states (CO, CT, DC, FL, IA, MO, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA) — all other states are not in the NewFilings index.
| # | Name | New business filings |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | New York | 5,751,706 |
| 2 | Texas | 3,070,589 |
| 3 | Pennsylvania | 2,310,486 |
| 4 | Virginia | 1,492,437 |
| 5 | Colorado | 1,181,659 |
| 6 | Oregon | 561,810 |
| 7 | Connecticut | 444,685 |
| 8 | Iowa | 335,205 |
| 9 | District of Columbia | 95,086 |
| 10 | Florida | 48,675 |
Methodology
Total Secretary-of-State business filings indexed by Palavir NewFilings as of 2026-05-27. The NewFilings dataset currently covers 12 states (CO, CT, DC, FL, IA, MO, NY, OR, PA, TX, VA, WA), so this is a rank within that 12-state universe, not a rank across all 50 states. Counts are cumulative ingested rows from each state's SOS public registry.
As of 2026-05-28. ACS 2023 5-year + CBP 2022.
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