New Business Start-Ups

We are often asked for the number of new business start-ups – so we put together this page for anyone who is just a little bit curious about such things. Keep in mind these numbers are changing daily. Not all of our statistics are available at this time. 

The total number of "active" listings as of January 1, 2011 is as follows: Vermont domestic = 14,740; Nonprofits = 8,180; Foreign Corporations = 8,665; Trade Names = 48,944; LLC = 20,041

YEAR (1980 - 1994)	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992	1993	1994
New corporations
general	725	1005	1175	1446	1626	1710	1770	1984	1979	1757	1622	1465	1567	1595	998
professional	24	70	53	40	59	42	39	30	44	38	48	45	48	59	57
close	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	556
nonprofit	266	261	255	292	310	276	284	317	377	372	393	351	401	388	396
foreign	232	281	379	506	513	538	560	623	650	644	652	618	703	738	775
Total	1247	1617	1862	2284	2508	2566	2653	2954	3050	2811	2715	2479	2719	2780	2782
New Trade Names	2021	1694	1782	2323	2620	3052	3732	3935	4538	4731	4382	3768	3988	4353	4308
New LLC	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Diss/Withdrawn
profit & nonprofit	0	0	0	43	155	311	318	607	504	517	707	376	304	316	533
foreign	0	0	0	27	80	162	162	193	165	154	144	167	170	201	237
YEAR	1995	1996	1997	1998	1999	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
New corporations
general	1018	999	877	731	773	774	706	720	644	621	542	523	501	360	368
professional	71	70	55	50	71	65	46	58	60	53	56	43	47	34	29
close	563	518	491	438	464	422	461	527	513	461	449	392	374	303	245
nonprofit	353	336	321	394	382	402	402	397	443	403	457	463	413	456	449
foreign	883	910	959	881	945	893	772	875	1093	1096	975	970	929	854	741
Total	2888	2833	2703	2494	2635	2556	2387	2577	2753	2634	2479	2391	2264	2007	1832
New Trade Names	4780	4025	3998	3948	4024	3989	3866	4328	4591	4296	4212	4317	4074	3679	3588
New LLC	0	184	534	682	917	1223	1504	1863	2262	2801	3124	3263	3527	3401	3209
Diss/Withdrawals
profit & nonprofit	435	452	463	503	481	477	530	493	445	525	504	507	476	488	487
foreign	258	262	327	355	256	343	441	399	401	363	370	376	391	453	391

Year	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020
Corps
general	385
prof	31
close	207
nonprof	469
foreign	755
Total	1843

T.N.	3808
LLC	3346

Diss/with	383
prof/np	72
foreign	406

 

Year 2011	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sept	Oct	Nov	Dec
general	34	26	29	23	26	23	23	11
professional	11	3	1	1	0	3	2	0
close	22	26	28	16	11	21	5	15
nonprofit	28	27	41	38	28	38	34	25
foreign	66	68	81	59	61	57	48	55
Total	161	150	180	137	126	151	113	109
New Trade Names	331	252	379	365	275	315	271	255
New LLC's	320	256	300	303	250	298	280	233
Diss/Withdrawn
domestic profit	64	29	69	37	26	21	21	23
nonprofit	7	3	7	8	10	7	7	6
foreign	35	39	30	27	25	32	27	28
Total	106	71	106	72	61	60	55	57

Figures are based on the calendar  year. (Jan to Dec) 
General - most corporations fall into this category.
Professional - designed for professions that require a license, ie engineers, doctors, etc.
Close - limits the number of shareholders and often operates without a board of directors.
Nonprofit - mutual and public benefit charitable organizations.
Foreign - corporations chartered in other states and doing business in Vermont.
Trade Names - small businesses, sole proprietors - often referred to as a dba.
Limited Liability Company (LLC) - has some previleges of a corporation, but is not a corporation.
Dissolved - domestic corporations that are no longer doing business.
Withdrawn - foreign corporations that no longer do business in Vermont.
The number of terminated corporations or small businesses renewals are not available at this time.
Active means the company has filed needed reports and renewals.