cff-version: 1.2.0
message: "If you use this dataset, please cite it as: Probative Growth, New business applications by county (Census Business Formation Statistics), 2026, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898091. Source: Probative, New business applications by county (Census Business Formation Statistics), version 2.0.0, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23898091, licensed CC BY 4.0."
type: dataset
title: "New business applications by county (Census Business Formation Statistics)"
authors:
  - name: "Probative Growth"
    website: "https://probativegrowth.com"
version: "2.0.0"
date-released: 2026-11-02
doi: 10.5281/zenodo.23898091
url: "https://probativegrowth.com/data/business-applications/"
license: CC-BY-4.0
abstract: "Business applications (requests for a new Employer Identification Number) in every U.S. county from 2005 to 2025, with each county's latest count, the change over a year and since 2019, and the sums for each state and the nation, from the Census Bureau's Business Formation Statistics annual county file. The Census Bureau applied differentially private noise to the June 2026 release, so every record is flagged noise; county sums are checked against the Bureau's own monthly state series."
keywords:
  - "new business applications by county"
  - "Census Business Formation Statistics county"
  - "business applications county data"
  - "EIN applications by county"
  - "business formation by county"
  - "BFS county file"