New businesses in Massachusetts — October 2026
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Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 5,031 Massachusetts business records entered our newly opened businesses section, 15th among U.S. states. Boston received 978 of them, about four times as many as Worcester, the second city.
How many new businesses are there in Massachusetts?
Massachusetts received 5,031 new records between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 10.3 per 1,000 of the 488,868 records in our database — 15th of the 50 states and D.C. on that measure. In New England it is in a class of its own by count: Connecticut (2,786) and Rhode Island (1,093) together received fewer new records (3,879). Rhode Island, though, has the highest rate of any state: 14.4 new per 1,000 records. Our Massachusetts page carries the live figures by sector and city.
| State | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records | Rank by new records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 12,413 | 1,270,209 | 9.8 | 4th |
| Massachusetts | 5,031 | 488,868 | 10.3 | 15th |
| Connecticut | 2,786 | 263,749 | 10.6 | 24th |
| Rhode Island | 1,093 | 75,963 | 14.4 | 38th |
| Maine | 900 | 134,419 | 6.7 | 41st |
| New Hampshire | 778 | 120,316 | 6.5 | 46th |
| Vermont | 701 | 68,302 | 10.3 | 47th |
Boston and the cities around it
| City | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records | With phone | With website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston | 978 | 59,194 | 16.5 | 85.8% | 70.0% |
| Worcester | 232 | 13,253 | 17.5 | 88.5% | 57.6% |
| Springfield | 119 | 9,300 | 12.8 | 87.8% | 56.0% |
| Cambridge | 116 | 9,468 | 12.3 | 81.2% | 69.1% |
| Newton | 113 | 6,456 | 17.5 | 91.2% | 73.5% |
| Lowell | 107 | 4,777 | 22.4 | 86.9% | 59.2% |
| Framingham | 91 | 4,872 | 18.7 | 90.8% | 66.4% |
| Brockton | 90 | 4,742 | 19.0 | 90.4% | 60.8% |
| Fall River | 77 | 5,311 | 14.5 | 89.8% | 60.7% |
| Quincy | 75 | 4,208 | 17.8 | 88.4% | 68.8% |
| Waltham | 65 | 4,943 | 13.1 | 88.8% | 71.4% |
| Woburn | 57 | 4,091 | 13.9 | 91.9% | 74.5% |
| New Bedford | 54 | 4,545 | 11.9 | 88.4% | 58.2% |
| Barnstable | 45 | 5,990 | 7.5 | 75.7% | 64.7% |
| Plymouth | 38 | 4,352 | 8.7 | 84.2% | 67.1% |
Boston leads with 978 new records — more than Worcester, Springfield, Cambridge, Newton and Lowell put together (687). On rate, though, Boston (16.5 per 1,000) trails several cities around it: Lowell (22.4), Brockton (19.0) and Framingham (18.7) have the highest rates in the table, and Worcester (17.5) is ahead of Boston too. Plymouth (8.7) and Barnstable (7.5), on Cape Cod and the South Shore, have the lowest. For web designers, the split that matters runs between Boston and the state’s other large cities. In Worcester, Springfield, Lowell, Brockton, Fall River and New Bedford, about a third of records have a phone but no website information (32.0% to 34.7%); in Boston it is 22.7%, in Cambridge 22.7%.
Which sectors are opening in Massachusetts?
| Sector | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hair and beauty salons | 120 | 12,934 | 9.3 |
| Restaurants | 106 | 13,439 | 7.9 |
| Dentists and dental clinics | 105 | 7,170 | 14.6 |
| Construction companies | 83 | 11,846 | 7.0 |
| Real estate agencies | 59 | 14,072 | 4.2 |
| Auto repair shops | 45 | 7,072 | 6.4 |
| Cafés | 38 | 2,828 | 13.4 |
| Bakeries and pastry shops | 34 | 1,706 | 19.9 |
| Supermarkets and grocery stores | 29 | 3,924 | 7.4 |
| Clothing stores | 28 | 3,346 | 8.4 |
| Bars and pubs | 26 | 1,073 | 24.2 |
| Gyms and fitness studios | 25 | 2,378 | 10.5 |
| Car dealers | 11 | 1,944 | 5.7 |
| Pharmacies | <5 | 1,285 | — |
Hair and beauty salons are the largest group (120); restaurants (106) and dentists and dental clinics (105) are all but level behind them. The dental count is the third highest in this month’s twelve-state series, after Arizona and Georgia; the method note below explains why one practice can stand behind several records. Bars and pubs are a small group (26) with the highest rate of any sector in the state, 24.2 per 1,000 — and the highest bar rate in the series; bakeries and pastry shops come next on rate (19.9). Auto repair shops go the other way: 45 new records, the fewest of any state in the series.
Selling to new Massachusetts businesses
- Write the territory as a list of towns. Massachusetts has no unincorporated land: every address lies in a city or a town, so a territory can be written town by town — Boston, Cambridge, Newton and Quincy close in; Lowell, Framingham and Worcester further out; Springfield in the west; Brockton, Fall River and New Bedford to the south. Some addresses carry a village name instead of the town (Hyannis is a village of Barnstable), so check the place names your search returns.
- Dental practices. 105 new dental records in 30 days — buyers of equipment, supplies, imaging, practice software and insurance. The sector across countries: new dental practices.
- Bars, bakeries and cafés. 26 bars and pubs, 34 bakeries and 38 cafés — prospects for beverage distributors, bakery suppliers and card terminals: new bars and pubs.
How to pull the Massachusetts list
- Location: United States, State: Massachusetts, then cities and towns — or counties, from Suffolk (Boston) to Barnstable (Cape Cod).
- 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: “bar” and “pub” 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.