Colorado business formation statistics

About 593 new business entities are registered in Colorado per business day. That is the average across the 60 days ending 2026-10-16, drawn from 131,760 Colorado filings indexed from official Colorado Secretary of State records. The latest complete month is September 2026, with 14,293 new filings, 12.4% fewer than in August 2026.

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New business filings by month

Complete months only. A month appears here once the state's own publishing has run past the end of it, so a slow upstream feed is never reported as a decline.

Month	New filings	Change
September 2026	14,293	-12.4%
August 2026	16,315	-9.1%
July 2026	17,950	-7.5%
June 2026	19,402	-8.4%
May 2026	21,174	+2.7%
April 2026	20,618	n/a

Industry mix

Every filing is classified into one of 13 industry categories from the registered business name. Over the same window, 100% of Colorado filings carried a classification. "Other" covers holding companies, entities named only for a person, and any name with no inferable industry, which is a large share of any registry.

Industry	Filings	Share
Other	15,020	51.4%
Professional Services	2,132	7.3%
Real Estate	1,935	6.6%
Retail	1,875	6.4%
Home Services	1,390	4.8%
Construction	1,242	4.3%
Technology	1,135	3.9%
Healthcare	1,043	3.6%
Food & Beverage	1,005	3.4%
Finance	750	2.6%
Beauty & Wellness	743	2.5%
Automotive	541	1.9%
Education	411	1.4%

How this is measured

• Source. Official Colorado business registry records published by the Colorado Secretary of State, collected daily. Nothing here is modeled or estimated.
• Coverage. Our Colorado index begins 2026-03-09. Earlier months are not shown because our collection, not the state's activity, would explain the numbers.
• Settlement. States publish on their own schedules and some run weeks behind. Data for Colorado is settled through 2026-10-16, and only months fully inside that are published.
• Counting. One row per filed entity. We collect operating-business entity types: LLCs, corporations, professional entities such as PLLCs and PCs, limited partnerships and LLPs. The exact set of types each state publishes differs, so the mix is not identical across states and these totals are not a like-for-like ranking between them.
• Business day. Rates use weekdays only, since registries post on weekdays.

Common questions

How many new businesses were registered in Colorado in September 2026?

14,293 new business entities were registered in Colorado in September 2026, based on filings published by the Colorado Secretary of State. That is the most recent month for which Colorado data is complete.

How many businesses are started in Colorado each day?

About 593 new business entities are registered in Colorado per business day, averaged across the 60 days ending 2026-10-16. Registries post on weekdays, so this is a per business day figure rather than a calendar day figure.

What kinds of businesses are being started in Colorado?

After allowing for entities whose registered name gives no industry away, the most common identifiable categories among new Colorado businesses are Professional Services, Real Estate and Retail.

Where does this Colorado business formation data come from?

Official Colorado business registry records published by the Colorado Secretary of State, collected daily by AlphaLeads and refreshed weekly on this page. Nothing here is modeled, sampled or estimated. A month is published only once Colorado has finished publishing it, so a slow state feed is never shown as a fall in business formation.

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