{
    "statement": "small businesses in California, the most of any state; Texas has 3.52M and Florida 3.49M",
    "value_display": "4.34M",
    "value_numeric": 4.34,
    "unit": "count",
    "data_label": "2025 state profiles",
    "data_period_end": null,
    "region": "USA",
    "size": "small",
    "source": {
        "name": "Frequently Asked Questions About Small Business; Small Business Profiles",
        "publisher": "US Small Business Administration, Office of Advocacy",
        "type": "official",
        "url": "https://advocacy.sba.gov/"
    },
    "source_url": "https://advocacy.sba.gov/2025/06/30/new-advocacy-report-shows-the-number-of-small-businesses-in-the-u-s-exceeds-36-million/",
    "source_quote": "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).",
    "verification_note": "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.",
    "verified_at": "2026-10-23T00:00:00+00:00",
    "margin_of_error": null,
    "dont_know": null,
    "data_table": null,
    "revisions": [],
    "page_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/small-business/small-businesses-by-state-california",
    "csv_url": "https://digitaltreed.com/statistics/small-business/small-businesses-by-state-california.csv"
}