Name: 4.34M small businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M (2025 state profiles)
Creator: US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy
License: Public domain (US government work)

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4.34M small businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M (2025 state profiles).

4.34M

the latest figure (2025 state profiles)

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Why you can trust it. US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles: official data, government statistics office or regulator. SBA Office of Advocacy 2025 Small Business Profiles for the States, Territories, and Nation.

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Period 2025 state profiles
Region USA
Company size Small
Next data FAQ yearly

Source: US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles, 2025 state profiles

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Publisher: US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles
Source type: Official data: Government statistics office or regulator
What it measures: 4.34M small businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M
Data period: 2025 state profiles
Published by the source: 30 Jun 2025
Who is counted: SBA Office of Advocacy 2025 Small Business Profiles for the States, Territories, and Nation.
In the source's words: California is the state with the highest number of small businesses, at 4.34 million, followed by Texas (3.52 million) and Florida (3.49 million).
Checked at source: 23 Oct 2026: Read on the SBA Advocacy press release of 30 Jun 2025 (advocacy.sba.gov/?p=30239 redirects there). No 2026 state profiles were published as of 2026-10-23 (only 2026 congressional district profiles). The release does not state the data year.
Reuse: Public domain (US government work). Free to reuse; credit SBA Office of Advocacy.
Next expected update: FAQ yearly (US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, fAQ yearly (early in the year); state profiles yearly)
Original page: advocacy.sba.gov: Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles
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What is the latest figure for businesses (USA)?

4.34M small businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M, for 2025 state profiles, according to US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles. We checked it at the source on 23 Oct 2026.

36.2M

small businesses in the US, 99.9% of all firms; 82.3% of them have no employees

Sample: Count of all firms with fewer than 500 employees, from Census Statistics of US Businesses 2022 and Nonemployer Statistics 2022.

US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy, Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles, 2022 data (FAQ Feb 2026)

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24.3%

of US businesses with 1 to 4 employees used AI in any business function in the two weeks before the survey

Sample: About 1.2 million US employer businesses in six panels; each panel reports every 12 weeks. Estimate for firms with 1 to 4 employees.

US Census Bureau, Business Trends and Outlook Survey, Oct 2026

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4.34Msmall businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M

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Group	Small businesses (millions)
California	4.34
Texas	3.52
Florida	3.49

4.34Msmall businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M

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