New businesses in Georgia — October 2026

Auspector · Published: October 27, 2026

Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 7,023 business records in the state of Georgia entered our newly opened businesses section, eighth among U.S. states. Atlanta received 871 of them, more than four times as many as Savannah, the second city (201).

Bar chart of new business records between September 27 and October 27, 2026 in Georgia’s largest places, the top 10 of 15: Atlanta 871, Savannah 201, Marietta 163, Macon 147, Augusta 136, Columbus 134, Lawrenceville 132, Athens 132, Alpharetta 131, Sandy Springs 110.

How many new businesses opened in Georgia?

Georgia added about 234 records a day to our newly opened businesses section, 7,023 in all, each dated by the day it reached us rather than by an opening date. That puts Georgia eighth among the states for new records, right after Ohio and New Jersey and ahead of Pennsylvania. We already hold 743,641 Georgia records — more than Ohio or New Jersey — so its rate is lower than theirs: 9.4 new per 1,000, 22nd among the 50 states. The Georgia page of our data section lists the current counts by city and sector.

Atlanta and five regional cities

New business records in Georgia’s largest cities, September 27 – October 27, 2026
City	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records	Phone (all records)	Website information (all records)
Atlanta	871	60,326	14.4	85.0%	65.1%
Savannah	201	15,927	12.6	80.4%	63.5%
Marietta	163	18,809	8.7	90.3%	69.9%
Macon	147	10,889	13.5	88.6%	59.3%
Augusta	136	14,053	9.7	85.5%	57.4%
Columbus	134	12,462	10.8	84.8%	56.7%
Lawrenceville	132	11,859	11.1	90.1%	62.2%
Athens	132	9,321	14.2	84.4%	66.8%
Alpharetta	131	11,838	11.1	92.2%	76.8%
Sandy Springs	110	12,527	8.8	92.2%	71.2%
Gainesville	97	7,788	12.5	90.3%	64.8%
Roswell	92	8,037	11.4	90.0%	73.2%
Duluth	86	8,200	10.5	90.7%	67.4%
Cumming	75	8,881	8.4	91.9%	74.2%
Norcross	59	6,098	9.7	88.9%	61.7%

September 27 – October 27, 2026. The 15 places with the most records in our Georgia database, ordered by new records. A city is the locality on the record’s address, not the metro area: Marietta, Sandy Springs and Alpharetta are counted under their own names, not under Atlanta. Phone and website shares are for all records held for the place, not only new ones.

Atlanta leads on volume (871) and, relative to its size, on rate as well: 14.4 new records per 1,000, the highest in the table. Outside metro Atlanta, five cities form a second tier: Savannah (201), Macon (147), Augusta (136), Columbus (134) and Athens (132) — 750 new records together. Savannah received more than Marietta although we hold more Marietta records (18,809 against 15,927), and Athens (14.2) and Macon (13.5) come close to Atlanta’s rate.

The suburbs north of Atlanta appear under their own names: Marietta in Cobb County; Sandy Springs, Alpharetta and Roswell in north Fulton; Lawrenceville, Duluth and Norcross in Gwinnett; Cumming in Forsyth. Together these eight received 848 new records, almost as many as Atlanta itself, each at a lower rate than the city — from 11.4 per 1,000 in Roswell down to 8.4 in Cumming.

Which sectors are opening in Georgia?

New business records in Georgia by sector, September 27 – October 27, 2026
Sector	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records
Restaurants	233	24,527	9.5
Hair and beauty salons	193	24,893	7.8
Construction companies	171	14,097	12.1
Dentists and dental clinics	147	8,428	17.4
Auto repair shops	107	13,159	8.1
Real estate agencies	105	22,889	4.6
Supermarkets and grocery stores	53	6,624	8.0
Bakeries and pastry shops	53	3,239	16.4
Clothing stores	43	7,154	6.0
Cafés	41	2,708	15.1
Car dealers	38	4,864	7.8
Gyms and fitness studios	27	2,863	9.4
Bars and pubs	26	1,523	17.1
Pharmacies	6	2,670	2.2

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

Restaurants received the most new records (233), followed by hair and beauty salons (193) and construction companies (171). Salons are the largest sector in our Georgia database — 24,893 records, slightly more than restaurants (24,527). Dentists and dental clinics come fourth with 147 new records but have the highest rate of the 14 sectors, 17.4 per 1,000; bars and pubs follow (17.1) from a much smaller base. Dental figures deserve a second look: across 35 countries, 13.5% of new dental records carry a phone number that also appears on another new record, because several dentists at one practice can each have a record.

Georgia and the states around it

Georgia and the five states it borders: new business records, September 27 – October 27, 2026
State	New records	Rank among the 50 states	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records
Florida	20,803	3	1,905,037	10.9
Georgia	7,023	8	743,641	9.4
North Carolina	5,617	10	764,571	7.3
Tennessee	3,841	18	467,280	8.2
South Carolina	3,431	22	377,009	9.1
Alabama	2,781	25	319,644	8.7

September 27 – October 27, 2026. Rank by new records. A state counts the new records whose address already carries it, so rates compare states with each other, not with a national figure.

Among its five neighbors, only Florida received more new records (20,803) or had a higher rate (10.9 per 1,000). Georgia’s 9.4 is above South Carolina (9.1), Alabama (8.7), Tennessee (8.2) and North Carolina (7.3). Georgia’s records also carry phone numbers more often than those in North Carolina: 83.7% of all Georgia records in our database have one, against 79.9% there.

Who can use the Georgia list

Dental suppliers. 147 new dental records in 30 days — buyers of chairs and imaging, consumables, practice software and insurance. Compare phone numbers before you count practices; the sector in more detail: new dental practices.
Salon distributors. 193 new hair and beauty salons, on top of the largest stock of any sector in our Georgia data — a market for product distributors, booking and payment tools and salon furniture (new hair and beauty salons).
A route outside Atlanta. Savannah, Macon, Augusta, Columbus and Athens — 750 new records together — suit a phone team or a rep on a regular loop. In four of them the city and county governments are consolidated (Athens-Clarke, Augusta-Richmond, Columbus-Muscogee, Macon-Bibb), so the county filter covers the city; Savannah is in Chatham County.

How to pull a Georgia list

Location: United States, State: Georgia, then a county — for example Fulton, DeKalb, Cobb and Gwinnett for metro Atlanta, Chatham for Savannah — or a city when the territory really is one city.
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: “dentist” and “cosmetic dentist” 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.

Business applications in the Census series are filings, not storefronts; why the two counts never line up: Census business applications vs openings.

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. Georgia means the address is in the state; a city is the locality on the address, not a metro area or a county.

Some new records do not carry a location yet. They count for Georgia only once the state is on the address, so the state figure is a lower bound and is compared only with other states, never with a national total; rates per 1,000 compare states, cities and sectors with each other. The cities in the table do not add up to the state: new records without a city, and smaller places, are not in it — the table lists the 15 places with the most records in our Georgia database.

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 shown as <5. Across 35 countries, 13.5% of new dental records and 8.6% of new car dealer records carry a phone number that also appears on another new record. Phone and website shares are for all records we hold, not only new ones. 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. Measured on October 27, 2026.

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