Ayni — Startups per Capita (By Metro)

Startups per Capita — By Metro

Operating companies per 100,000 residents. Counts by category (primary_type_id = 1); excludes only acquired/merged/defunct companies, not unset status -- most companies in the graph have never had a status backfilled, so treating unset as inactive undercounted real companies (operator decision 2026-07-29).

95 metros with population data · 3193 startups counted

#	Metro	Startups	Population	Per 100,000 Residents
1	Pittsburgh	295	2,443,921	12.07
2	Portland — the Silicon Forest	266	2,510,529	10.60
3	Gettysburg	10	105,183	9.51
4	New England	254	4,917,661	5.17
5	Greater Charlotte	21	421,641	4.98
6	Boulder	13	328,317	3.96
7	Alaska	28	733,971	3.81
8	the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia)	228	6,263,796	3.64
9	Green Bay -- Titletown	12	329,375	3.64
10	Wyoming	21	579,761	3.62
11	Youngstown	14	428,430	3.27
12	Walla Walla	2	62,102	3.22
13	the Research Triangle	71	2,287,314	3.10
14	Ames	3	98,592	3.04
15	Bozeman & Greater Yellowstone	15	529,288	2.83
16	Greater Atlanta	157	6,176,937	2.54
17	Spokane	14	591,793	2.37
18	Nebraska	45	1,965,926	2.29
19	Kansas City	49	2,202,006	2.23
20	the Sun Belt — Arizona	157	7,268,175	2.16
21	North Dakota	15	779,361	1.92
22	Cincinnati	43	2,246,830	1.91
23	Des Moines	13	682,467	1.90
24	Silicon Valley	166	9,101,124	1.82
25	New Orleans	18	988,763	1.82
26	South Dakota	15	899,194	1.67
27	Indianapolis	34	2,128,089	1.60
28	New Mexico	33	2,114,768	1.56
29	Montana	14	923,187	1.52
30	Alabama	64	5,054,253	1.27
31	Baton Rouge	11	871,379	1.26
32	Hawaii	18	1,445,635	1.25
33	Harrisburg	7	597,894	1.17
34	Greater Columbus	25	2,151,847	1.16
35	Utah (Silicon Slopes)	35	3,331,187	1.05
36	Nevada	33	3,141,000	1.05
37	Austin	24	2,357,497	1.02
38	Greater Cleveland	22	2,171,978	1.01
39	West Virginia	18	1,784,462	1.01
40	New England (NH · VT · ME · RI · CT)	80	8,104,207	0.99
41	Richland	3	307,900	0.97
42	Idaho (Boise)	18	1,893,296	0.95
43	Greater St. Louis	26	2,809,414	0.93
44	Arkansas	22	2,469,215	0.89
45	Oklahoma	35	3,995,260	0.88
46	the Twin Cities	32	3,693,351	0.87
47	Puerto Rico	28	3,254,885	0.86
48	Denver	25	2,977,085	0.84
49	Upstate New York	57	7,008,487	0.81
50	Mississippi	23	2,951,438	0.78
51	Detroit	32	4,367,620	0.73
52	Seattle	29	4,021,467	0.72
53	Northwest Arkansas	4	563,436	0.71
54	Kentucky	28	4,061,369	0.69
55	Milwaukee	9	1,566,361	0.57
56	Greater Orlando	14	2,721,022	0.51
57	Dallas	26	5,252,554	0.49
58	South Carolina	23	4,791,133	0.48
59	New York City	92	19,756,722	0.47
60	California	52	11,222,760	0.46
61	the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor	2	453,380	0.44
62	Greater San Diego	14	3,282,782	0.43
63	Tampa Bay	14	3,240,469	0.43
64	Houston	29	7,274,714	0.40
65	Philadelphia	24	6,241,882	0.38
66	Pennsylvania	17	4,448,668	0.38
67	Erie, PA	1	269,544	0.37
68	Greater San Antonio	9	2,612,802	0.34
69	Greater Los Angeles	39	13,012,469	0.30
70	Washington State	6	2,234,930	0.27
71	Monterey	1	435,834	0.23
72	Lehigh Valley (Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton)	2	866,764	0.23
73	Iowa	7	3,195,937	0.22
74	Greater Miami / South Florida	12	6,138,876	0.20
75	Greater Chicago	16	9,359,555	0.17
76	Colorado	3	1,801,100	0.17
77	Texas	16	9,587,775	0.17
78	Georgia	7	4,347,510	0.16
79	Fort Worth	3	2,555,001	0.12
80	Michigan	6	5,315,581	0.11
81	Nashville	2	2,043,713	0.10
82	Tennessee	5	4,942,369	0.10
83	Minnesota	2	1,994,110	0.10
84	Florida	8	9,828,514	0.08
85	Hampton Roads	1	1,782,590	0.06
86	Oregon	2	4,093,795	0.05
87	Missouri	1	2,743,854	0.04
88	Ohio	2	4,710,407	0.04
89	Illinois	1	2,871,607	0.03
90	Piedmont Triad (Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point)	0	1,709,224	0.00
91	North Carolina	0	6,587,802	0.00
92	State College, PA	0	158,041	0.00
93	Madison, WI	0	564,777	0.00
94	Louisiana	0	2,760,883	0.00
95	Wisconsin	0	3,365,751	0.00

Not shown above — no population figure currently on file for these metros: Unassigned (116 startups), Greater Baltimore (22 startups), Greater Richmond (16 startups), Delaware (16 startups), Guam (15 startups), Wichita (13 startups), U.S. Virgin Islands (10 startups), Northern Mariana Islands (8 startups), American Samoa (5 startups), Hartford (4 startups), Jackson Hole & Teton County (2 startups), Connecticut Gold Coast (1 startup). Some of these are real US metros without a built edition yet, or explicitly non-US/regional labels — see the Data page for source coverage.