Solo Economics
Solo business by the numbers: government statistics on one-person businesses, founder and platform reports, revenue distributions, pricing models, stack costs and survival rates.
Solo EconomicsTop 51US States by New Business Applications per 1,000 Residents (2025)
Wyoming had 134.2 EIN-based business applications for every 1,000 residents in 2025, West Virginia 9.3. All 50 states and DC ranked from Census’s Business Formation Statistics.
Solo EconomicsExplainerHow Census Counts New Businesses: EIN Applications vs Formations
Census’s monthly new-business figure counts tax-ID applications, not companies, and its “formations” count only firms that pay wages. What each series measures, with September 2026’s numbers.
Solo EconomicsTop 51US States by Nonemployer Businesses per 1,000 Residents
Florida had 147.3 nonemployer businesses (businesses with no paid employees) for every 1,000 residents in 2024, the most of any state; West Virginia had 55.1. All 50 states and DC, from Census Bureau data.
Solo EconomicsTop 12UK Regions by Businesses With No Employees
London had 1,080 private-sector businesses with no employees for every 10,000 adults at the start of 2025, and Wales had 533. All 12 UK countries and English regions, ranked from the government’s Business Population Estimates.
Solo EconomicsTop 18Industries With the Most Nonemployer Businesses
Transportation and Warehousing had the most US nonemployer businesses in 2024, 4,484,838, ahead of Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services. All 18 sectors in the Census Bureau’s 2024 Nonemployer Statistics, ranked by count.
Solo EconomicsFeature32 Million: How Many US Businesses Have No Employees
The Census Bureau counted 31,985,874 businesses with no paid employees in 2024, about 32.0 million, with $1.86 trillion in receipts. Here is what counts as one, how they split by legal form, and how they compare with employer firms.
Solo EconomicsExplainerHow MRR, Churn and LTV Are Calculated
MRR, churn and LTV look like standard formulas, but Stripe, ChartMogul and Baremetrics each compute them a little differently. Here is what each tool counts, what it leaves out, and where the numbers part ways.
Solo EconomicsFeatureSolo Founding at a Record Share: What Stripe Atlas and Carta Show
Stripe says 63% of the C corporations formed through Stripe Atlas so far in Q2 2026 had a single founder, its highest share yet. Carta's startup data shows the solo share rising too, at a lower level and in a different crowd of companies.