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Startups per Capita — By Jurisdiction
Operating companies per 100,000 residents. Counts by category (primary_type_id = 1); excludes only acquired/merged/defunct companies, not unset status -- most companies in the graph have never had a status backfilled, so treating unset as inactive undercounted real companies (operator decision 2026-07-29). Matches oluwadi's own Operating Companies count exactly.
56 jurisdictions with population data · 1885 startups counted
# Jurisdiction Startups Population Per 100,000 Residents
1 Oregon (OR) 241 4,238,714 5.69
2 District of Columbia (DC) 26 672,079 3.87
3 Massachusetts (MA) 231 6,992,395 3.30
4 Arizona (AZ) 140 7,268,175 1.93
5 Virginia (VA) 144 8,657,499 1.66
6 Georgia (GA) 146 10,822,590 1.35
7 Maryland (MD) 58 6,170,738 0.94
8 Montana (MT) 10 1,105,072 0.90
9 Idaho (ID) 15 1,893,296 0.79
10 Utah (UT) 26 3,331,187 0.78
11 Nevada (NV) 21 3,141,000 0.67
12 Puerto Rico (PR) 21 3,254,885 0.65
13 Louisiana (LA) 29 4,621,025 0.63
14 Minnesota (MN) 36 5,713,716 0.63
15 Washington (WA) 49 7,740,984 0.63
16 Colorado (CO) 33 5,810,774 0.57
17 Alaska (AK) 4 733,971 0.54
18 Missouri (MO) 32 6,168,181 0.52
19 Ohio (OH) 58 11,780,046 0.49
20 Iowa (IA) 14 3,195,937 0.44
21 New York (NY) 82 19,872,319 0.41
22 Delaware (DE) 4 1,005,872 0.40
23 North Dakota (ND) 3 779,361 0.38
24 California (CA) 145 39,242,785 0.37
25 Nebraska (NE) 7 1,965,926 0.36
26 North Carolina (NC) 38 10,584,340 0.36
27 West Virginia (WV) 6 1,784,462 0.34
28 Wyoming (WY) 2 579,761 0.34
29 Oklahoma (OK) 13 3,995,260 0.33
30 South Dakota (SD) 3 899,194 0.33
31 Maine (ME) 4 1,377,400 0.29
32 Alabama (AL) 14 5,054,253 0.28
33 Michigan (MI) 27 10,051,595 0.27
34 Wisconsin (WI) 16 5,892,023 0.27
35 Mississippi (MS) 7 2,951,438 0.24
36 New Mexico (NM) 5 2,114,768 0.24
37 Texas (TX) 68 29,640,343 0.23
38 Connecticut (CT) 8 3,598,348 0.22
39 Pennsylvania (PA) 19 12,986,518 0.15
40 Illinois (IL) 18 12,692,653 0.14
41 Florida (FL) 28 21,928,881 0.13
42 Tennessee (TN) 9 6,986,082 0.13
43 New Jersey (NJ) 11 9,267,014 0.12
44 Arkansas (AR) 3 3,032,651 0.10
45 South Carolina (SC) 4 5,212,774 0.08
46 Hawaii (HI) 1 1,445,635 0.07
47 Indiana (IN) 4 6,811,752 0.06
48 Kentucky (KY) 2 4,510,725 0.04
49 Kansas (KS) 0 2,937,569 0.00
50 New Hampshire (NH) 0 1,387,834 0.00
51 Rhode Island (RI) 0 1,095,371 0.00
52 Vermont (VT) 0 645,254 0.00
53 American Samoa (AS) 0 49,710 0.00
54 Guam (GU) 0 153,836 0.00
55 Northern Mariana Islands (MP) 0 47,329 0.00
56 U.S. Virgin Islands (VI) 0 87,146 0.00