Pennsylvania business formation statistics

About 391 new business entities are registered in Pennsylvania per business day. That is the average across the 60 days ending 2026-09-01, drawn from 58,955 Pennsylvania filings indexed from official Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations records.

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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.

MonthNew filingsChange
August 20269,734-0.1%
July 20269,745-3.0%
June 202610,045+0.4%
May 202610,005-4.0%
April 202610,417n/a

Entity types

What Pennsylvania registrants are actually forming, over the 60 days ending 2026-09-01.

Entity typeFilingsShare
Domestic Limited Liability Company16,82389.5%
Domestic Business Corporation1,2436.6%
Foreign Limited Liability Company4502.4%
Foreign Business Corporation1981.1%
Domestic Limited Partnership (Lp/Lllp)730.4%
Foreign Limited Liability General Partnership30.0%
Foreign Limited Partnership20.0%

Industry mix

Every filing is classified into one of 13 industry categories from the registered business name. Over the same window, 74% of Pennsylvania 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.

IndustryFilingsShare
Other6,51747.0%
Real Estate1,3519.7%
Professional Services8466.1%
Home Services8436.1%
Retail7755.6%
Construction7745.6%
Food & Beverage7005.0%
Beauty & Wellness4313.1%
Healthcare4233.0%
Automotive3442.5%
Technology3322.4%
Finance2762.0%
Education2591.9%

How this is measured

Common questions

How many new businesses were registered in Pennsylvania in August 2026?

9,734 new business entities were registered in Pennsylvania in August 2026, based on filings published by the Pennsylvania Department of State, Bureau of Corporations and Charitable Organizations. That is the most recent month for which Pennsylvania data is complete.

How many businesses are started in Pennsylvania each day?

About 391 new business entities are registered in Pennsylvania per business day, averaged across the 60 days ending 2026-09-01. Registries post on weekdays, so this is a per business day figure rather than a calendar day figure.

What is the most common type of business formed in Pennsylvania?

Domestic Limited Liability Company is the most common, at about 90% of recent Pennsylvania filings.

What kinds of businesses are being started in Pennsylvania?

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

Where does this Pennsylvania business formation data come from?

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

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