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Startups per Capita — By Metro
Operating companies per 100,000 residents. Counts every company still active -- only excludes ones confirmed acquired, merged, or defunct, since most haven't had that status checked yet and treating the unknowns as inactive would undercount real companies. Matches oluwadi's own Operating Companies count exactly.
94 metros with population data · 3429 startups counted
# Metro Startups Population Per 100,000 Residents
1 Portland — the Silicon Forest 530 2,520,987 21.02
2 Gettysburg 20 106,115 18.85
3 Pittsburgh 308 2,439,940 12.62
4 Greater Charlotte 48 430,330 11.15
5 Walla Walla 6 62,161 9.65
6 Boulder 26 328,961 7.90
7 Green Bay -- Titletown 24 331,145 7.25
8 Youngstown 28 427,420 6.55
9 Bozeman & Greater Yellowstone 30 537,230 5.58
10 Greater Atlanta 310 6,256,377 4.95
11 New England 241 4,953,354 4.87
12 Spokane 28 597,123 4.69
13 Ames 4 100,466 3.98
14 Wyoming 22 582,397 3.78
15 the Research Triangle 86 2,336,314 3.68
16 New Orleans 36 981,662 3.67
17 Baton Rouge 22 875,313 2.51
18 Silicon Valley 222 9,107,604 2.44
19 Nebraska 46 1,978,707 2.32
20 Harrisburg 14 604,155 2.32
21 Greater Cleveland 44 2,171,526 2.03
22 Greater Columbus 42 2,175,788 1.93
23 Richland 6 311,807 1.92
24 the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) 120 6,318,377 1.90
25 Greater St. Louis 52 2,810,850 1.85
26 the Twin Cities 64 3,713,668 1.72
27 Denver 50 3,002,721 1.67
28 New Mexico 35 2,120,246 1.65
29 Austin 38 2,426,592 1.57
30 Northwest Arkansas 8 577,726 1.38
31 Alabama 68 5,086,768 1.34
32 Detroit 54 4,376,828 1.23
33 Seattle 50 4,061,920 1.23
34 Montana 11 932,137 1.18
35 Milwaukee 17 1,568,938 1.08
36 Puerto Rico 32 3,234,309 0.99
37 Monterey 4 437,613 0.91
38 Arkansas 22 2,471,665 0.89
39 Oklahoma 35 4,028,634 0.87
40 Greater Orlando 24 2,793,746 0.86
41 Dallas 45 5,382,430 0.84
42 Iowa 27 3,210,507 0.84
43 Tampa Bay 26 3,304,691 0.79
44 Mississippi 23 2,946,779 0.78
45 Houston 48 7,442,788 0.64
46 Kentucky 26 4,081,359 0.64
47 Kansas City 14 2,218,142 0.63
48 Greater San Diego 20 3,288,774 0.61
49 Greater San Antonio 16 2,662,733 0.60
50 Greater Los Angeles 74 12,974,487 0.57
51 Philadelphia 35 6,272,014 0.56
52 Alaska 4 735,706 0.54
53 Upstate New York 33 7,009,118 0.47
54 New York City 84 19,798,537 0.42
55 South Carolina 20 4,865,895 0.41
56 Pennsylvania 18 4,456,245 0.40
57 Greater Miami / South Florida 24 6,249,291 0.38
58 North Dakota 3 784,841 0.38
59 West Virginia 6 1,778,373 0.34
60 South Dakota 3 907,428 0.33
61 Greater Chicago 28 9,371,595 0.30
62 Fort Worth 6 2,603,160 0.23
63 Nevada 5 3,184,612 0.16
64 Hampton Roads 2 1,787,235 0.11
65 Nashville 2 2,079,596 0.10
66 Cincinnati 2 2,262,262 0.09
67 Hawaii 1 1,445,235 0.07
68 Indianapolis 1 2,151,989 0.05
69 Washington State 1 2,253,744 0.04
70 Utah (Silicon Slopes) 1 3,392,331 0.03
71 Florida 2 10,068,349 0.02
72 the Sun Belt — Arizona 1 7,378,838 0.01
73 Texas 1 9,670,721 0.01
74 New England (NH · VT · ME · RI · CT) 0 8,156,100 0.00
75 Des Moines 0 693,166 0.00
76 Piedmont Triad (Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point) 0 1,724,503 0.00
77 the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor 0 455,824 0.00
78 North Carolina 0 6,669,587 0.00
79 Erie, PA 0 269,052 0.00
80 Lehigh Valley (Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton) 0 873,603 0.00
81 State College, PA 0 158,576 0.00
82 Michigan 0 5,331,111 0.00
83 Madison, WI 0 572,674 0.00
84 Missouri 0 2,755,527 0.00
85 Illinois 0 2,861,906 0.00
86 Ohio 0 4,707,274 0.00
87 Colorado 0 1,812,743 0.00
88 California 0 11,281,795 0.00
89 Georgia 0 4,383,151 0.00
90 Tennessee 0 4,986,787 0.00
91 Louisiana 0 2,754,986 0.00
92 Oregon 0 4,109,526 0.00
93 Minnesota 0 1,999,896 0.00
94 Wisconsin 0 3,376,106 0.00
Not shown above — no population figure currently on file for these metros: Phoenix / Scottsdale (131 startups), Cincinnati (86 startups), Silicon Valley (80 startups), Kansas City (70 startups), Charlottesville (59 startups), Indianapolis (32 startups), Las Vegas (27 startups), Salt Lake / Provo (22 startups), Greater Phoenix (20 startups), Des Moines (14 startups), Philadelphia (10 startups), Kansas (8 startups), Austin (8 startups), Seattle (6 startups), Salt Lake City (6 startups), New England (5 startups), Jackson Hole (4 startups), Dallas–Fort Worth (4 startups), Houston (4 startups), the Research Triangle (4 startups), Greater Columbus (4 startups), Detroit (4 startups), the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) (3 startups), DMV (3 startups), Greater Sacramento (2 startups), Rockville (2 startups), Bellingham (2 startups), Chicago (2 startups), Gaithersburg (2 startups), San Antonio (2 startups), Salt Lake City / Silicon Slopes (2 startups), Provo (1 startup), Silver Spring (1 startup), the DMV (1 startup), the Sun Belt — Arizona (1 startup), Vienna (1 startup), Bend (1 startup), Bethesda (1 startup), Northeast (1 startup), Memphis (1 startup), Maryland (1 startup), Louisville (1 startup), Boise / Eagle (1 startup), Knoxville (1 startup), Colorado Springs (1 startup), Jacksonville (1 startup), Honolulu (1 startup), DC (1 startup), Fairfield County (1 startup). Some of these are real US metros without an Osparna edition yet, or explicitly non-US/regional labels — see the Data page for source coverage.