New businesses in North Carolina — October 2026
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Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 5,617 North Carolina business records entered our newly opened businesses section, tenth among U.S. states. Charlotte had the most of any city (697), but Raleigh, Durham, Cary and Chapel Hill — the Research Triangle — received 852 together.
How many new businesses opened in North Carolina?
North Carolina’s 5,617 new records work out at about 187 a day — by arrival date in our database, not by opening day. The state ranks tenth for new records but seventh for the records we already hold (764,571), so its rate is low: 7.3 new per 1,000, 46th of the 50 states. A record here is a business location that appeared, not a filing; the Census Bureau’s monthly business applications are a separate count, explained in Census business applications vs openings. The North Carolina page of our data section has the current counts by city and sector.
Charlotte, the Triangle and the Triad
| City | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records | Phone (all records) | Website information (all records) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlotte | 697 | 63,206 | 11.0 | 87.8% | 71.1% |
| Raleigh | 423 | 40,227 | 10.5 | 89.5% | 71.3% |
| Durham | 249 | 23,699 | 10.5 | 88.5% | 71.8% |
| Greensboro | 189 | 22,821 | 8.3 | 89.2% | 65.6% |
| Winston-Salem | 155 | 18,854 | 8.2 | 88.6% | 66.9% |
| Fayetteville | 134 | 14,099 | 9.5 | 85.8% | 58.4% |
| Wilmington | 124 | 15,373 | 8.1 | 87.2% | 70.2% |
| Asheville | 107 | 15,460 | 6.9 | 88.3% | 69.6% |
| Cary | 106 | 11,420 | 9.3 | 89.5% | 74.7% |
| High Point | 95 | 7,939 | 12.0 | 86.2% | 63.4% |
| Concord | 82 | 7,445 | 11.0 | 86.6% | 68.3% |
| Chapel Hill | 74 | 8,990 | 8.2 | 90.4% | 72.9% |
| Greenville | 72 | 9,857 | 7.3 | 90.6% | 64.8% |
| Jacksonville | 53 | 6,164 | 8.6 | 87.0% | 60.7% |
| Hickory | 46 | 6,141 | 7.5 | 89.8% | 65.4% |
Charlotte is the largest single city, with 697 new records; add Concord in neighboring Cabarrus County and the Charlotte area in the table comes to 779. The Triangle is larger: Raleigh, the state capital (423), Durham (249), Cary (106) and Chapel Hill (74) add up to 852. The Piedmont Triad — Greensboro, Winston-Salem and High Point — received 439, and High Point has the highest rate in the table (12.0 per 1,000). Fayetteville received more new records than Wilmington (134 against 124) with fewer records in our database, while Asheville, larger than both in our data, received 107 and has the lowest rate of the 15 places (6.9).
Real estate: a big stock, few new records
| Sector | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 179 | 21,474 | 8.3 |
| Hair and beauty salons | 166 | 21,641 | 7.7 |
| Construction companies | 124 | 16,512 | 7.5 |
| Auto repair shops | 109 | 12,821 | 8.5 |
| Real estate agencies | 91 | 21,739 | 4.2 |
| Dentists and dental clinics | 85 | 7,667 | 11.1 |
| Supermarkets and grocery stores | 52 | 6,606 | 7.9 |
| Cafés | 51 | 3,169 | 16.1 |
| Bakeries and pastry shops | 35 | 2,984 | 11.7 |
| Car dealers | 34 | 4,210 | 8.1 |
| Bars and pubs | 33 | 2,129 | 15.5 |
| Gyms and fitness studios | 28 | 2,782 | 10.1 |
| Clothing stores | 21 | 5,412 | 3.9 |
| Pharmacies | 11 | 2,644 | 4.2 |
Restaurants (179) and hair and beauty salons (166) lead, ahead of construction companies (124) and auto repair shops (109). Real estate is North Carolina’s largest sector in our database — 21,739 agency records, more than hair and beauty salons or restaurants — but it received only 91 new ones, 4.2 per 1,000. Clothing stores were slower still (21 new, 3.9 per 1,000). The fastest sectors relative to their size are cafés (16.1 per 1,000) and bars and pubs (15.5).
Fewer phone numbers than the neighbors
| State | New records | Rank among the 50 states | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 7,023 | 8 | 743,641 | 9.4 |
| North Carolina | 5,617 | 10 | 764,571 | 7.3 |
| Virginia | 5,138 | 12 | 524,515 | 9.8 |
| Tennessee | 3,841 | 18 | 467,280 | 8.2 |
| South Carolina | 3,431 | 22 | 377,009 | 9.1 |
North Carolina received more new records than Virginia, Tennessee and South Carolina and fewer than Georgia — but its rate is the lowest of the five. For a call team the more useful difference is in the records themselves: phone numbers are on 79.9% of all North Carolina records in our database, against 83.7% in Georgia and 84.4% in Virginia. Website information is closer: 63.5%, against 61.5% and 66.5%.
Who can use the North Carolina list
- Two metros, separate territories. Mecklenburg County for Charlotte and Cabarrus for Concord; Wake for Raleigh and Cary, Durham County for Durham and Orange for Chapel Hill; Guilford and Forsyth for the Triad.
- Plan for the missing numbers. With a phone number on 79.9% of all records, about one in five has none — for those the website, a platform page or a visit is the first contact. The “Phone — has” filter keeps a call list to the records you can dial.
- Restaurants and bars. 179 new restaurants, 51 cafés and 33 bars and pubs — for food and beverage distributors, card terminals and insurance. The worked example: how to find new restaurants and cafés.
How to pull a North Carolina list
- Location: United States, State: North Carolina, then a county — for example Mecklenburg for Charlotte or Wake for Raleigh — 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: “real estate agency” and “real estate agent” 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.