New businesses in Michigan — October 2026

Auspector · Published: October 27, 2026

Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 5,284 Michigan business records entered our newly opened businesses section, 11th among U.S. states. Detroit received 525 — more than Grand Rapids (201) and Ann Arbor (154) combined — and had the highest rate of new records among Michigan’s 15 largest places in our database.

Bar chart of new business records in Michigan between September 27 and October 27, 2026, the 10 largest of 14 sectors: Restaurants 153, Hair and beauty salons 135, Auto repair shops 71, Construction companies 67, Dentists and dental clinics 67, Real estate agencies 56, Cafés 43, Bakeries and pastry shops 40, Clothing stores 38, Supermarkets and grocery stores 33.

How many new businesses opened in Michigan?

Michigan received about 176 new records a day over the 30 days, dated by the day each reached us rather than the day the business opened. That puts the state 11th, behind North Carolina (5,617) and ahead of Virginia (5,138). Against the 609,781 Michigan records we already hold, that is 8.7 new per 1,000, 33rd of the 50 states. The Michigan page of our data section shows the current counts by city and sector.

Detroit, its suburbs and the rest of the state

New business records in Michigan’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)
Detroit	525	29,165	18.0	83.7%	54.7%
Grand Rapids	201	16,887	11.9	89.2%	69.6%
Ann Arbor	154	15,752	9.8	89.7%	70.0%
Lansing	122	8,908	13.7	88.6%	67.3%
Flint	113	8,103	13.9	88.1%	54.5%
Dearborn	110	7,329	15.0	88.3%	61.0%
Kalamazoo	91	8,443	10.8	89.0%	68.9%
Warren	85	6,483	13.1	89.1%	57.6%
Livonia	84	7,274	11.5	91.5%	70.0%
Troy	74	9,248	8.0	92.6%	74.2%
Saginaw	70	6,420	10.9	90.6%	58.4%
Southfield	58	9,128	6.4	92.1%	59.5%
Traverse City	58	7,762	7.5	86.5%	71.5%
Sterling Heights	57	5,744	9.9	90.8%	65.1%
Farmington Hills	47	6,193	7.6	91.5%	67.5%

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

Detroit’s 525 new records come with the highest rate in the table: 18.0 per 1,000 records we hold for the city. Among the suburbs in the table, the Oakland County cities have the lowest rates — Troy (8.0), Farmington Hills (7.6) and Southfield (6.4) — against Dearborn (15.0) and Livonia (11.5) in Wayne County and Warren (13.1) and Sterling Heights (9.9) in Macomb. Southfield holds more records than Lansing, the state capital (9,128 against 8,908), but received less than half as many new ones (58 against 122).

Outside metro Detroit the new records spread over separate markets: Grand Rapids (201), Ann Arbor (154), Lansing (122), Flint (113), Kalamazoo (91) and Saginaw (70). Traverse City, in the north-west of the Lower Peninsula, holds 7,762 records but received only 58 new ones, one of the lowest rates in the table (7.5 per 1,000).

Michigan’s new records by sector

New business records in Michigan by sector, September 27 – October 27, 2026
Sector	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records
Restaurants	153	16,844	9.1
Hair and beauty salons	135	14,319	9.4
Auto repair shops	71	9,778	7.3
Construction companies	67	10,653	6.3
Dentists and dental clinics	67	8,727	7.7
Real estate agencies	56	15,131	3.7
Cafés	43	2,805	15.3
Bakeries and pastry shops	40	2,649	15.1
Clothing stores	38	4,405	8.6
Supermarkets and grocery stores	33	4,081	8.1
Gyms and fitness studios	27	2,218	12.2
Bars and pubs	22	1,981	11.1
Pharmacies	13	2,673	4.9
Car dealers	11	2,682	4.1

Michigan 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 (153) and hair and beauty salons (135) lead; behind them come auto repair shops (71), with construction companies level with dentists and dental clinics at 67. Relative to their size, cafés (15.3 per 1,000) and bakeries and pastry shops (15.1) received the most new records. Two sectors stand out for how few arrived: 56 new real estate agency records against 15,131 in our database (3.7 per 1,000, the lowest rate of the 14) and 11 new car dealers (4.1).

Michigan, Ohio, Indiana and Wisconsin

Michigan and the three states it shares a land border with: 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
Ohio	7,678	6	704,761	10.9
Michigan	5,284	11	609,781	8.7
Indiana	3,606	21	401,386	9.0
Wisconsin	2,716	26	397,812	6.8

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.

Of the three states Michigan shares a land border with, only Ohio received more new records (7,678), and at a higher rate (10.9 per 1,000). Indiana (3,606) and Wisconsin (2,716) received fewer; on rate, Michigan’s 8.7 falls between Indiana’s 9.0 and Wisconsin’s 6.8. Ohio’s records also carry phone numbers more often: 86.2% of all Ohio records in our database, against 83.4% in Michigan.

Who can use the Michigan list

Metro Detroit, county by county. Wayne for Detroit, Dearborn and Livonia; Oakland for Troy, Southfield and Farmington Hills; Macomb for Warren and Sterling Heights. Their rates differ, so count each county first — counts are free — and split the work by what you see.
Web design in Flint and Detroit. The two cities have the lowest website shares in the table — 54.5% of all Flint records and 54.7% in Detroit carry website information — and two of the three highest rates of new records. Where to start, and how to pitch: how to get web design clients.
West and mid-Michigan by phone. Grand Rapids, Kalamazoo, Lansing and Saginaw — 484 new records together — suit a phone team: phone numbers are on 89.2% of all records we hold in those four cities.

How to pull a Michigan list

Location: United States, State: Michigan, then a county — for example Wayne, Oakland and Macomb for metro Detroit, or Kent for Grand Rapids — 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: “bakery” and “pastry 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.

For the largest U.S. cities — New York City, Los Angeles, Houston and Chicago — side by side: new businesses in four U.S. cities.

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. Michigan 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 Michigan 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 Michigan database.

Sectors are fixed groups of categories — “bakeries and pastry shops”, for example, covers bakeries, bakery and cake shops, pastry shops and wedding cake bakers. 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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