New businesses in Texas — October 2026
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Between September 24 and October 23, 2026, 22,325 Texas business records entered our newly opened businesses section — second among U.S. states, after California (29,891). Houston had the most new records of any Texas city (2,442), and 70.3% of all new Texas records carried a phone number.
How many new businesses are there in Texas?
22,325 Texas records entered our newly opened businesses section between September 24 and October 23, 2026 — 7.2% of all 308,281 new U.S. records in the window. That averages about 744 a day, although arrivals swing widely from day to day: the date is when a record reached us, not when the business opened. Our database holds 1,903,604 Texas records in all.
| State | New records | Share of all new U.S. records |
|---|---|---|
| California | 29,891 | 9.7% |
| Texas | 22,325 | 7.2% |
| Florida | 20,868 | 6.8% |
| New York | 12,351 | 4.0% |
| Illinois | 8,107 | 2.6% |
| New Jersey | 7,343 | 2.4% |
| Ohio | 7,200 | 2.3% |
| Georgia | 6,945 | 2.3% |
| Pennsylvania | 6,584 | 2.1% |
| North Carolina | 5,707 | 1.9% |
Which Texas cities get the most new businesses?
| City | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Houston | 2,442 | 230,723 | 10.6 |
| Dallas | 1,485 | 85,643 | 17.3 |
| San Antonio | 1,190 | 90,058 | 13.2 |
| Austin | 1,089 | 79,856 | 13.6 |
| Fort Worth | 721 | 47,284 | 15.2 |
| El Paso | 357 | 35,559 | 10.0 |
| Plano | 286 | 21,481 | 13.3 |
| Frisco | 269 | 13,952 | 19.3 |
| Arlington | 263 | 19,221 | 13.7 |
| McKinney | 205 | 11,376 | 18.0 |
| Lubbock | 204 | 17,286 | 11.8 |
| Irving | 186 | 14,095 | 13.2 |
Houston leads with 2,442. But seven of the 12 cities are in the Dallas–Fort Worth area (Dallas, Fort Worth, Plano, Frisco, Arlington, McKinney, Irving), and together they received 3,415, more than Houston on its own — for a field team, one territory under several city names. Relative to their size in our database, Frisco (19.3 new per 1,000 records) and McKinney (18.0) received the most, El Paso (10.0) the fewest. The 12 cities account for 39.0% of new Texas records.
Which sectors are opening?
| Sector | New records | All records in our database | New per 1,000 records |
|---|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 673 | 71,996 | 9.3 |
| Hair and beauty salons | 586 | 60,062 | 9.8 |
| Construction companies | 480 | 43,082 | 11.1 |
| Auto repair shops | 428 | 40,857 | 10.5 |
| Real estate agencies | 252 | 50,999 | 4.9 |
| Cafés | 147 | 8,936 | 16.5 |
Restaurants lead with 673, followed by hair and beauty salons (586). Construction companies (480) and auto repair shops (428) each outnumber real estate agencies (252): in Texas the trades are a bigger part of the flow than property. Cafés are the smallest group (147) but have the most new records relative to their size (16.5 per 1,000).
How many list a phone or a website?
| On the record | New records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Phone number | 15,703 | 70.3% |
| Own website (own domain) | 10,034 | 44.9% |
| Website information (own website or platform page) | 10,896 | 48.8% |
| No website information | 11,429 | 51.2% |
Counting booking, appointment and other platform pages as well as own websites, 48.8% of new Texas records carry website information, which leaves 11,429 without it. Across all new U.S. records in the same window the two shares were 44.8% (own website) and 50.0% (website information).
What it means if you sell to new Texas businesses
- Narrow before you start. 22,325 records in 30 days is too many for one list. Even one sector statewide — restaurants, 673 — is about 22 a day; one sector in one county is a list a rep can finish.
- Phone, then website. With 70.3% carrying a phone number, a call team has a number for most of them, though a listed number is no promise that someone answers. The 11,429 with no website information are the market for web designers; an empty field does not prove there is no site, but it makes a good first question.
- Payments at opening. Restaurants, cafés and hair and beauty salons — 1,406 new records together — usually need to take cards from day one. The approach: merchant services leads from new businesses.
How to pull the Texas list
- Location: United States, State: Texas, then a county or city. A county also takes in the suburbs and unincorporated areas around a 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, so “taco restaurant” or “barber shop” can be a list of its own.
- Reach: Phone — has, for a call list; Website — none, for web design prospects.
- Count, then open: 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).
- Watch: save the search, and new matches arrive by email every day.
Every step, through to the CSV or XLSX export into your CRM: building a lead list from new businesses.
How this compares with official business applications
The U.S. Census Bureau counted 54,196 business applications in Texas for September 2026 (not seasonally adjusted; 49,761 adjusted), 13,966 of them high-propensity — applications from corporations, from businesses that plan to hire or give a first wages-paid date, or in certain industries (U.S. Census Bureau · Business Formation Statistics, September 2026, released October 14, 2026). The two series measure different things, so we neither subtract one from the other nor divide them:
- A filing, not a place. An application asks for an Employer Identification Number; it can be for a holding company, a consultancy run from home or a venture that never opens a location. Our record is a business location that appeared as new.
- Branches. A chain’s new location is a new record for us, with no new application.
- Timing. An application can come months before an opening, or without one. The Census “September 2026” covers the weeks from August 30 to October 3, 2026; our window is September 24 – October 23, 2026.
More on the difference: newly registered vs newly opened.