least<\/em> interested in Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\n![\"states](\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABAQMAAAAl21bKAAAAA1BMVEUAAP+KeNJXAAAAAXRSTlMAQObYZgAAAAlwSFlzAAAOxAAADsQBlSsOGwAAAApJREFUCNdjYAAAAAIAAeIhvDMAAAAASUVORK5CYII=\")
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Fun Facts About Small Business in Every State<\/h2>\n
Want to know more about each state and its relationship with the small businesses that call it home? From our research, we discovered these fun facts about small businesses in each state.<\/p>\n
Alabama<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nAlabama residents search for local clothing boutiques more than any other state.<\/p>\n
Alaska<\/strong><\/p>\nAlaska is the state that has the least year-round interest in small businesses.<\/p>\n
Arizona<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nArizona residents search for local dive bars more than in any other state.<\/p>\n
Arkansas<\/strong><\/p>\nArkansas residents love<\/em> Etsy — in fact, they searched for the platform more than any other types of small businesses.<\/p>\nCalifornia<\/strong><\/p>\nCalifornians are passionate about supporting small businesses. They had high numbers of searches across all small business types, but thrift shops, family-owned restaurants, and dive bars had the highest scores. <\/strong><\/p>\nColorado<\/strong><\/p>\nColorado registered more searches for family-owned restaurants than any other state.<\/p>\n
Connecticut<\/strong><\/p>\nConnecticut tied for least interested in family-owned restaurants.<\/p>\n
Delaware<\/strong><\/p>\nDelaware residents love<\/em> their farmers’ markets. They searched for this small business type nearly twice as much as any other type of small business.<\/p>\nFlorida<\/strong><\/p>\nFlorida residents searched for “local bars near me” more than anyone else in the U.S.<\/p>\n
Georgia<\/strong><\/p>\nGeorgia residents want to support small businesses, no matter what type — the state had more searches for “small businesses near me” than for any specific type of business.<\/p>\n
Hawaii<\/strong><\/p>\nHawaii led the nation in searches for both “local restaurants near me” and “farmers’ markets.”<\/p>\n
Idaho<\/strong><\/p>\nIdahoans love to shop on Etsy. Residents of the state searched for Etsy more than twice as much as they did for any local businesses in their state.<\/p>\n
Illinois<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nIllinois was the median state in the nation for interest in small businesses overall.<\/p>\n
Indiana<\/strong><\/p>\nIndiana residents showed the second most interest in local hardware stores in the country. <\/strong><\/p>\nIowa<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nBeer business is booming in Iowa. The state led the entire nation in searches for local craft breweries.<\/p>\n
Kansas<\/strong><\/p>\nKansas is another state that loves its small businesses, but doesn’t have a favorite type. In this state, there were more searches for “small business near me” than there were for any specific type of small business.<\/p>\n
Kentucky<\/strong><\/p>\nKentucky loves its boutique stores. In the Bluegrass State, most small business-related searches were for either boutique shops, or boutique clothing.<\/p>\n
Louisiana<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nLouisiana showed more interest in boutique shops than any other state.<\/p>\n
Maine<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nMaine showed more interest in Etsy than any other state.<\/p>\n
Maryland<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Maryland, craft breweries were the most-searched-for type of small business.<\/p>\n
Massachusetts<\/strong><\/p>\nMassachusetts is another state where the beer business is booming — residents here searched for craft breweries more than for any other small business type.<\/p>\n
Michigan<\/strong><\/p>\nMichigan’s top small business type was family-owned restaurants, which was searched for more often than “local restaurants.”<\/p>\n
Minnesota<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nIn Minnesota, craft breweries are likely to see plenty of support — they were the most popular type of small business in the state by a wide margin.<\/p>\n
Mississippi<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nMississippi was the state where residents showed the least interest in small businesses overall. Maybe this Small Business Saturday will be a good chance to change that.<\/p>\n
Missouri<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nAcross the country, local hardware stores were popular business searches and in Missouri they were the most searched for small business.<\/p>\n
Montana<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Montana, residents searched a lot for “Small Business Saturday,” but rarely searched for “small businesses” in general. This could mean that Montanans show the most support for small businesses on Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\n
Nebraska<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nNebraskans are looking outside their own state for small businesses to support. In the Cornhusker State, there were more searches for Etsy than for local businesses.<\/p>\n
Nevada<\/strong><\/p>\nSearchers in Nevada showed the most interest in local distilleries of any state in the nation. Cheers!<\/p>\n
New Hampshire<\/strong><\/p>\nIn New Hampshire, residents apparently love a homemade gift. This state had more searches for local craft markets than anywhere else in the nation.<\/p>\n
New Jersey<\/strong><\/p>\nResidents of New Jersey are all about supporting small businesses all the time — this state had more searches for “small businesses near me” than any other.<\/p>\n
New Mexico<\/strong><\/p>\nNew Mexico residents searched more often for Etsy than for any small businesses in their state.<\/p>\n
New York<\/strong><\/p>\nNew Yorkers don’t seem to discriminate against any small businesses — the state had more searches for the general term “small businesses” than for any specific type.<\/p>\n
North Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\nNorth Carolina was the median state in the nation for searches for Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\n
North Dakota<\/strong><\/p>\nNorth Dakota was the state least interested in community markets (farmers’ markets and<\/em> craft markets).<\/p>\nOhio<\/strong><\/p>\nOhio searchers were more interested in family-owned restaurants than any other state in the nation.<\/p>\n
Oklahoma<\/strong><\/p>\nOklahoma residents searched for Etsy more than they searched for any small businesses within their own state.<\/p>\n
Oregon<\/strong><\/p>\nOregon is another state where residents want to support small businesses even outside their own borders — they searched for Etsy more than for any local small businesses.<\/p>\n
Pennsylvania<\/strong><\/p>\nPennsylvania showed the most interest in local hardware stores of any state in the nation.<\/p>\n
Rhode Island<\/strong><\/p>\nRhode Island residents love to save money and reuse items — thrift stores are their favorite type of small business.<\/p>\n
South Carolina<\/strong><\/p>\nSouth Carolina is one of only two states where residents searched for small businesses in general more<\/em> than they searched for Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\nSouth Dakota<\/strong><\/p>\nSouth Dakotans aren’t spending much time searching for small businesses. This state had the fewest searches for 12 different business types.<\/p>\n
Tennessee<\/strong><\/p>\nTennesseeans are always on the lookout for a delicious bite. In this state, the most searched for local business was local restaurants — by far.<\/p>\n
Texas<\/strong><\/p>\nTexas is one of only two states where residents searched for small businesses in general more than they searched for Small Business Saturday.<\/p>\n
Utah<\/strong> <\/strong><\/p>\nUtahns want to support all local businesses, but especially the ones close to them. This state had more searches for “local businesses near me” than any other.<\/p>\n
Vermont<\/strong><\/p>\nVermont is home to serious DIYers — this state led the nation in searches for hardware stores and thrift shops.<\/p>\n
Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\nVirginians searched more than any other state for alcohol-related small businesses — except dive bars.<\/p>\n
Washington<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Washington, residents want to drink local — the state’s top searches were a tie between local craft breweries and local distilleries.<\/p>\n
West Virginia<\/strong><\/p>\nWest Virginia is clearly a fashionable state, as residents there were more interested in boutique clothing stores than any other type of small business.<\/p>\n
Wisconsin<\/strong><\/p>\nWisconsin residents weren’t the most<\/em> interested in any category of small business — because they love them all. In this state, searches were high across the board for all small business types.<\/p>\nWyoming<\/strong><\/p>\nIn Wyoming, local restaurants beat out other small business types to be the most popular by a wide margin, showing residents here are willing to go out of their way to support independent restaurants.<\/p>\n
Methodology<\/h2>\n
Using Google Analytics, we scraped and analyzed “near me” queries for different types of small businesses in each state.<\/p>\n
The types of businesses included in our analysis were:<\/p>\n
\n- Local restaurants<\/li>\n
- Family-owned restaurants<\/li>\n
- Local bars<\/li>\n
- Dive bars<\/li>\n
- Craft breweries<\/li>\n
- Local distilleries<\/li>\n
- Boutique shops<\/li>\n
- Boutique clothing stores<\/li>\n
- Thrift shops<\/li>\n
- Local hardware stores<\/li>\n
- Farmers’ markets<\/li>\n
- Craft markets<\/li>\n
- Etsy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n
We also looked at data about how many people in each state search for “small business,” “Small Business Saturday,” and other terms related to small businesses.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Small Business Saturday is here! Here are the types of small businesses people love the most in every U.S. state.\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":8271,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_appearance_grid":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[205],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business-operators","cs-entry","cs-video-wrap"],"yoast_head":"\n
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