New businesses in Colorado — October 2026

Auspector · Published: October 27, 2026

Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 5,134 Colorado business records entered our newly opened businesses section, 13th among U.S. states and just 4 behind Virginia. Denver received the most (908), Colorado Springs 495, and all but one of the 15 largest cities in our Colorado database lie on the Front Range.

Bar chart of the 10 Colorado cities with the most new business records between September 27 and October 27, 2026, among the 15 with the most records in our database: Denver 908, Colorado Springs 495, Aurora 278, Fort Collins 176, Lakewood 158, Boulder 148, Arvada 128, Centennial 95, Westminster 93, Littleton 87.

How many new businesses are there in Colorado?

5,134 new Colorado records in 30 days, from a base of 490,832 records in our database: that is 10.5 new per 1,000, 13th of the 50 states and D.C. — a higher rate than Michigan, Virginia, Washington State and Massachusetts, which received about as many new records, and a lower one than Arizona. Live figures by sector and city are on our Colorado data page; this article reads the month behind them.

Denver, its suburbs and the Front Range

Colorado cities: new business records, September 27 – October 27, 2026
City	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records	With phone	With website information
Denver	908	56,676	16.0	86.6%	70.6%
Colorado Springs	495	34,194	14.5	87.2%	68.7%
Aurora	278	19,832	14.0	88.7%	62.1%
Fort Collins	176	14,764	11.9	87.0%	72.3%
Lakewood	158	10,563	15.0	89.2%	70.0%
Boulder	148	13,526	10.9	86.2%	74.7%
Arvada	128	6,026	21.2	82.7%	71.3%
Centennial	95	8,076	11.8	90.0%	74.0%
Westminster	93	6,680	13.9	88.5%	71.5%
Littleton	87	5,445	16.0	89.5%	70.0%
Longmont	84	7,004	12.0	88.0%	72.1%
Grand Junction	81	8,563	9.5	89.5%	69.0%
Greeley	80	6,643	12.0	89.0%	64.4%
Loveland	72	7,475	9.6	88.1%	71.8%
Pueblo	66	7,481	8.8	87.3%	57.0%

The 15 cities with the most records in our Colorado database, ordered by new records (September 27 – October 27, 2026); a smaller place with more new records can be missing. A city is the locality on the record’s address. Phone and website shares are of all records in the city, not only the new ones.

Denver received 908, almost twice as many as Colorado Springs (495), the second city. The six Denver suburbs in the table — Aurora, Lakewood, Arvada, Centennial, Westminster and Littleton — received 839 between them, almost as many as Denver itself. Every city in the table except Grand Junction, on the Western Slope, is on the Front Range. Arvada stands out on rate: 128 new records from 6,026, 21.2 per 1,000, against Denver (16.0) in second place; Pueblo (8.8) is lowest.

Fewer phone numbers, more websites

Of the states in this month’s twelve-state series, Colorado has the lowest share of records with a phone number (79.1%) and the highest share with website information (67.2%). So it also has the smallest share with a phone but no website information — 22.5%, against 29.6% in New Jersey. For a call team that means roughly one Colorado record in five without a number to dial. For a web designer the pool is uneven: Pueblo (33.6%) and Aurora (30.1%) have the largest shares of records with a phone but no website information in the table, Boulder the smallest (18.7%).

Which sectors are opening in Colorado?

New business records in Colorado by sector, September 27 – October 27, 2026
Sector	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records
Restaurants	105	12,463	8.4
Hair and beauty salons	93	10,269	9.1
Auto repair shops	64	6,622	9.7
Real estate agencies	55	16,590	3.3
Construction companies	53	10,147	5.2
Dentists and dental clinics	51	5,351	9.5
Bakeries and pastry shops	35	1,670	21.0
Cafés	26	2,463	10.6
Gyms and fitness studios	26	2,050	12.7
Clothing stores	21	2,821	7.4
Bars and pubs	18	1,266	14.2
Supermarkets and grocery stores	17	2,230	7.6
Car dealers	7	1,270	5.5
Pharmacies	5	1,165	4.3

Colorado records only; each sector links to its U.S.-wide data page. Counts are records, and one business can have more than one. Cells under 5 are shown as <5.

Restaurants (105) and hair and beauty salons (93) are the two largest groups; auto repair shops (64) come next. Bakeries and pastry shops have the highest rate of any Colorado sector: 35 new records from 1,670, 21.0 per 1,000 — also the highest bakery rate in this month’s twelve-state series. Cafés sit at the other end: 26 new from 2,463, 10.6 per 1,000, the lowest café rate in the series, and exactly as many as new gyms and fitness studios.

Colorado and its neighbors

Colorado and its neighbors: new business records, September 27 – October 27, 2026
State	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records	Rank by new records
Colorado	5,134	490,832	10.5	13th
Utah	2,599	263,587	9.9	28th
Oklahoma	2,358	265,861	8.9	30th
Kansas	1,537	188,883	8.1	34th
New Mexico	1,119	147,048	7.6	37th
Nebraska	1,027	127,998	8.0	39th
Wyoming	611	60,009	10.2	48th

September 27 – October 27, 2026. Ranks are among the 50 states and D.C.. A state counts only the new records whose address already carries it; new per 1,000 relates them to all records we hold for the state.

Colorado received almost twice as many as Utah (2,599), the largest of its neighbors by count, and it also has the highest rate in the group (10.5 per 1,000). Wyoming comes closest on that measure (10.2) — from only 611 new records.

Selling to new Colorado businesses

Plan along the Front Range. North to south: Larimer and Weld counties (Fort Collins, Loveland, Greeley), Boulder County (Boulder, Longmont), then the Denver metro — Denver is a city and a county in one, bordered by Adams, Arapahoe and Jefferson counties, with Douglas County to the south — and finally El Paso County (Colorado Springs) and Pueblo County. Grand Junction, in Mesa County, is a separate trip.
Bakeries, cafés and gyms. 35 new bakery records, 26 cafés and 26 gyms and fitness studios — buyers of ovens, coffee, fitness equipment, card terminals and insurance. The bakery picture across countries: new bakeries.
Plan for the records without a phone. With 20.9% of Colorado records lacking a phone number, a call list leaves part of the market out; the website, where there is one, or a visit covers the rest.

How to pull the Colorado list

Location: United States, State: Colorado, then counties — Denver is a county of its own.
Section and category: newly opened businesses (the last 30 days, updated daily), then a sector or a narrower category. Categories are each record’s own and are not merged: “bakery” and “cake shop” are separate choices.
Reach: Phone — has, for a call list; Website — none, for web design prospects.
Count, open, watch: search and counts are free on every plan; a credit is spent only when you first open a record, and an export counts as an open (pricing). Save the search and new matches arrive by email every day.

Where state business registries, Census statistics and directories fit next to a feed of new openings: U.S. business lists compared.

How this was measured

A record is one business location in our database, not a company: a chain with 40 branches is 40 records, and one business can have more than one record. A new record entered our newly opened businesses section between September 27 and October 27, 2026 (up to our nightly rebuild of October 27, 2026); the date is the day it reached us, not the business’s opening date. Colorado means the address is in the state; a city is the locality on the address, not a metro area or a county. Sectors are fixed groups of categories — “dentists and dental clinics”, for example, covers dentists, dental clinics, paediatric and cosmetic dentists, implant and emergency dental practices. All figures are record counts; cells under 5 are not shown.

Some new records do not carry a state or a city yet — more often in service-area trades such as construction than in restaurants or shops. They count for Colorado only once the state is on the address, so the figures here are a lower bound, and they are compared only with other U.S. states, never with national totals. The city table lists the 15 cities with the most records in our Colorado database; their new records do not add up to the state’s, because some new records carry no city and others are in smaller places.

Phone: a phone number is on the record. Website information: an own website or a booking, appointment or other platform page; a social media profile on its own does not count. Phone and website shares are of all records, not only new ones. Across 35 countries, 13.5% of new dental records carry a phone number that also appears on another new record. Business applications counted by the U.S. Census Bureau are a different series, which we never subtract from ours or divide by it — business applications vs businesses that open. Measured on October 27, 2026.

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