Startups per Capita (By Metro)

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 · 3458 startups counted

#	Metro	Startups	Population	Per 100,000 Residents
1	Portland — the Silicon Forest	532	2,510,529	21.19
2	Gettysburg	20	105,183	19.01
3	Pittsburgh	308	2,443,921	12.60
4	Greater Charlotte	52	421,641	12.33
5	Walla Walla	6	62,102	9.66
6	Boulder	26	328,317	7.92
7	Green Bay -- Titletown	24	329,375	7.29
8	Youngstown	28	428,430	6.54
9	Bozeman & Greater Yellowstone	30	529,288	5.67
10	Greater Atlanta	310	6,176,937	5.02
11	New England	242	4,917,661	4.92
12	Spokane	28	591,793	4.73
13	Ames	4	98,592	4.06
14	Wyoming	22	579,761	3.79
15	the Research Triangle	86	2,287,314	3.76
16	New Orleans	36	988,763	3.64
17	Silicon Valley	230	9,101,124	2.53
18	Baton Rouge	22	871,379	2.52
19	Nebraska	46	1,965,926	2.34
20	Harrisburg	14	597,894	2.34
21	Greater Columbus	44	2,151,847	2.04
22	Greater Cleveland	44	2,171,978	2.03
23	Richland	6	307,900	1.95
24	the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia)	121	6,263,796	1.93
25	Greater St. Louis	52	2,809,414	1.85
26	the Twin Cities	64	3,693,351	1.73
27	Denver	50	2,977,085	1.68
28	New Mexico	35	2,114,768	1.66
29	Austin	38	2,357,497	1.61
30	Northwest Arkansas	8	563,436	1.42
31	Alabama	68	5,054,253	1.35
32	Detroit	56	4,367,620	1.28
33	Seattle	50	4,021,467	1.24
34	Montana	11	923,187	1.19
35	Milwaukee	17	1,566,361	1.09
36	Puerto Rico	32	3,254,885	0.98
37	Monterey	4	435,834	0.92
38	Oklahoma	36	3,995,260	0.90
39	Arkansas	22	2,469,215	0.89
40	Greater Orlando	24	2,721,022	0.88
41	Dallas	45	5,252,554	0.86
42	Iowa	27	3,195,937	0.84
43	Tampa Bay	26	3,240,469	0.80
44	Mississippi	23	2,951,438	0.78
45	Greater San Diego	22	3,282,782	0.67
46	Houston	48	7,274,714	0.66
47	Kansas City	14	2,202,006	0.64
48	Kentucky	26	4,061,369	0.64
49	Greater San Antonio	16	2,612,802	0.61
50	Greater Los Angeles	76	13,012,469	0.58
51	Philadelphia	35	6,241,882	0.56
52	Alaska	4	733,971	0.54
53	Upstate New York	33	7,008,487	0.47
54	New York City	88	19,756,722	0.45
55	South Carolina	20	4,791,133	0.42
56	Pennsylvania	18	4,448,668	0.40
57	Greater Miami / South Florida	24	6,138,876	0.39
58	North Dakota	3	779,361	0.38
59	West Virginia	6	1,784,462	0.34
60	South Dakota	3	899,194	0.33
61	Greater Chicago	28	9,359,555	0.30
62	Fort Worth	6	2,555,001	0.23
63	Nevada	5	3,141,000	0.16
64	Hampton Roads	2	1,782,590	0.11
65	Nashville	2	2,043,713	0.10
66	Cincinnati	2	2,246,830	0.09
67	Hawaii	1	1,445,635	0.07
68	Indianapolis	1	2,128,089	0.05
69	Washington State	1	2,234,930	0.04
70	Utah (Silicon Slopes)	1	3,331,187	0.03
71	Florida	2	9,828,514	0.02
72	the Sun Belt — Arizona	1	7,268,175	0.01
73	Texas	1	9,587,775	0.01
74	New England (NH · VT · ME · RI · CT)	0	8,104,207	0.00
75	Des Moines	0	682,467	0.00
76	Piedmont Triad (Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point)	0	1,709,224	0.00
77	the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor	0	453,380	0.00
78	North Carolina	0	6,587,802	0.00
79	Erie, PA	0	269,544	0.00
80	Lehigh Valley (Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton)	0	866,764	0.00
81	State College, PA	0	158,041	0.00
82	Michigan	0	5,315,581	0.00
83	Madison, WI	0	564,777	0.00
84	Missouri	0	2,743,854	0.00
85	Illinois	0	2,871,607	0.00
86	Ohio	0	4,710,407	0.00
87	Colorado	0	1,801,100	0.00
88	California	0	11,222,760	0.00
89	Georgia	0	4,347,510	0.00
90	Tennessee	0	4,942,369	0.00
91	Louisiana	0	2,760,883	0.00
92	Oregon	0	4,093,795	0.00
93	Minnesota	0	1,994,110	0.00
94	Wisconsin	0	3,365,751	0.00

Not shown above — no population figure currently on file for these metros: Phoenix / Scottsdale (131 startups), Cincinnati (86 startups), Silicon Valley (84 startups), Kansas City (70 startups), Charlottesville (59 startups), Indianapolis (32 startups), Las Vegas (27 startups), Salt Lake / Provo (22 startups), Greater Phoenix (21 startups), Des Moines (14 startups), Philadelphia (10 startups), Kansas (8 startups), Austin (8 startups), Salt Lake City (6 startups), Detroit (6 startups), Seattle (6 startups), New England (6 startups), Greater Columbus (4 startups), Dallas–Fort Worth (4 startups), Jackson Hole (4 startups), the Research Triangle (4 startups), Houston (4 startups), the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) (3 startups), DMV (3 startups), Greater Sacramento (2 startups), Bellingham (2 startups), Chicago (2 startups), Gaithersburg (2 startups), Rockville (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), Birmingham (1 startup), Knoxville (1 startup), Boise / Eagle (1 startup), Jacksonville (1 startup), Colorado Springs (1 startup), Honolulu (1 startup), Fairfield County (1 startup), DC (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.