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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 · 3168 startups counted
# Metro Startups Population Per 100,000 Residents
1 Pittsburgh 295 2,439,940 12.09
2 Portland — the Silicon Forest 265 2,520,987 10.51
3 Gettysburg 10 106,115 9.42
4 New England 253 4,953,354 5.11
5 Greater Charlotte 19 430,330 4.42
6 Boulder 13 328,961 3.95
7 Alaska 28 735,706 3.81
8 Green Bay -- Titletown 12 331,145 3.62
9 the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) 228 6,318,377 3.61
10 Wyoming 21 582,397 3.61
11 Youngstown 14 427,420 3.28
12 Walla Walla 2 62,161 3.22
13 the Research Triangle 71 2,336,314 3.04
14 Ames 3 100,466 2.99
15 Bozeman & Greater Yellowstone 15 537,230 2.79
16 Greater Atlanta 157 6,256,377 2.51
17 Spokane 14 597,123 2.34
18 Nebraska 45 1,978,707 2.27
19 Kansas City 49 2,218,142 2.21
20 the Sun Belt — Arizona 156 7,378,838 2.11
21 North Dakota 15 784,841 1.91
22 Cincinnati 43 2,262,262 1.90
23 Des Moines 13 693,166 1.88
24 New Orleans 18 981,662 1.83
25 Silicon Valley 162 9,107,604 1.78
26 South Dakota 15 907,428 1.65
27 Indianapolis 34 2,151,989 1.58
28 New Mexico 33 2,120,246 1.56
29 Montana 14 932,137 1.50
30 Baton Rouge 11 875,313 1.26
31 Hawaii 18 1,445,235 1.25
32 Alabama 63 5,086,768 1.24
33 Harrisburg 7 604,155 1.16
34 Greater Columbus 24 2,175,788 1.10
35 Nevada 33 3,184,612 1.04
36 Utah (Silicon Slopes) 35 3,392,331 1.03
37 Greater Cleveland 22 2,171,526 1.01
38 West Virginia 18 1,778,373 1.01
39 Austin 24 2,426,592 0.99
40 New England (NH · VT · ME · RI · CT) 80 8,156,100 0.98
41 Richland 3 311,807 0.96
42 Idaho (Boise) 18 1,934,262 0.93
43 Greater St. Louis 26 2,810,850 0.92
44 Arkansas 22 2,471,665 0.89
45 Puerto Rico 28 3,234,309 0.87
46 the Twin Cities 32 3,713,668 0.86
47 Oklahoma 34 4,028,634 0.84
48 Denver 25 3,002,721 0.83
49 Upstate New York 55 7,009,118 0.78
50 Mississippi 23 2,946,779 0.78
51 Seattle 29 4,061,920 0.71
52 Detroit 30 4,376,828 0.69
53 Northwest Arkansas 4 577,726 0.69
54 Kentucky 28 4,081,359 0.69
55 Milwaukee 9 1,568,938 0.57
56 Greater Orlando 14 2,793,746 0.50
57 Dallas 26 5,382,430 0.48
58 South Carolina 23 4,865,895 0.47
59 California 51 11,281,795 0.45
60 New York City 88 19,798,537 0.44
61 the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Corridor 2 455,824 0.44
62 Tampa Bay 14 3,304,691 0.42
63 Houston 29 7,442,788 0.39
64 Philadelphia 24 6,272,014 0.38
65 Pennsylvania 17 4,456,245 0.38
66 Erie, PA 1 269,052 0.37
67 Greater San Diego 12 3,288,774 0.36
68 Greater San Antonio 9 2,662,733 0.34
69 Greater Los Angeles 38 12,974,487 0.29
70 Monterey 1 437,613 0.23
71 Lehigh Valley (Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton) 2 873,603 0.23
72 Iowa 7 3,210,507 0.22
73 Washington State 5 2,253,744 0.22
74 Greater Miami / South Florida 12 6,249,291 0.19
75 Greater Chicago 16 9,371,595 0.17
76 Colorado 3 1,812,743 0.17
77 Texas 16 9,670,721 0.17
78 Georgia 7 4,383,151 0.16
79 Fort Worth 3 2,603,160 0.12
80 Michigan 6 5,331,111 0.11
81 Nashville 2 2,079,596 0.10
82 Tennessee 5 4,986,787 0.10
83 Minnesota 2 1,999,896 0.10
84 Florida 8 10,068,349 0.08
85 Hampton Roads 1 1,787,235 0.06
86 Oregon 2 4,109,526 0.05
87 Missouri 1 2,755,527 0.04
88 Ohio 2 4,707,274 0.04
89 Illinois 1 2,861,906 0.03
90 Piedmont Triad (Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point) 0 1,724,503 0.00
91 North Carolina 0 6,669,587 0.00
92 State College, PA 0 158,576 0.00
93 Madison, WI 0 572,674 0.00
94 Louisiana 0 2,754,986 0.00
95 Wisconsin 0 3,376,106 0.00
Not shown above — no population figure currently on file for these metros: Unassigned (114 startups), Greater Baltimore (20 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.