New businesses in Virginia — October 2026

Auspector · Published: October 27, 2026

Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 5,138 Virginia business records entered our newly opened businesses section — 12th among U.S. states, just 4 ahead of Colorado. No single city leads: Richmond (340) and Virginia Beach (335) received almost the same number.

Bar chart of the 10 Virginia cities with the most new business records between September 27 and October 27, 2026, among the 15 with the most records in our database: Richmond 340, Virginia Beach 335, Norfolk 203, Winchester 194, Alexandria 184, Arlington 171, Roanoke 138, Chesapeake 136, Fredericksburg 119, Newport News 119.

How many new businesses are there in Virginia?

5,138 Virginia records arrived in our newly opened businesses section between September 27 and October 27, 2026. By count that is 12th among U.S. states, behind Michigan (5,284) and only just ahead of Colorado (5,134). Set against the 524,515 Virginia records in our database, it comes to 9.8 new per 1,000, 20th of the 50 states and D.C.. The Virginia page in our data section keeps the live counts; below is where the month’s new records are and what they are.

Where in Virginia? No single center

Virginia cities: new business records, September 27 – October 27, 2026
City	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records	With phone	With website information
Richmond	340	25,302	13.4	87.2%	69.0%
Virginia Beach	335	24,412	13.7	89.9%	69.8%
Norfolk	203	12,892	15.7	87.9%	67.4%
Winchester	194	6,557	29.6	90.0%	67.1%
Alexandria	184	10,470	17.6	84.1%	73.5%
Arlington	171	11,656	14.7	82.8%	73.6%
Roanoke	138	8,799	15.7	89.2%	69.0%
Chesapeake	136	11,294	12.0	91.7%	68.6%
Fredericksburg	119	10,477	11.4	91.1%	68.9%
Newport News	119	8,817	13.5	90.3%	67.4%
Tysons	94	6,870	13.7	91.2%	82.3%
Hampton	92	6,132	15.0	84.7%	63.8%
Charlottesville	74	9,635	7.7	90.4%	75.6%
Lynchburg	69	6,070	11.4	85.6%	64.5%
Williamsburg	49	5,013	9.8	89.2%	79.0%

The 15 cities with the most records in our Virginia database, ordered by new records (September 27 – October 27, 2026); a smaller place with more new records can be missing. A city is the locality on the record’s address. Phone and website shares are of all records in the city, not only the new ones.

Richmond (340) and Virginia Beach (335) are almost level at the top. Taken together, the six Hampton Roads cities in the table — Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton and Williamsburg — received 934, more than two and a half times as many as Richmond. Northern Virginia, next to Washington, D.C., adds Alexandria, Arlington and Tysons: 449 new records between them. The highest rate in the table belongs to Winchester: 194 new records from 6,557, or 29.6 per 1,000, against 13.4 in Richmond. In a city of that size a few businesses with several records each can lift the rate, so check which categories make up the number — counts are free — before you plan a route around it. Charlottesville has the lowest rate (7.7). Website information is most common on Tysons records (82.3%) and least common in Hampton (63.8%).

Which sectors are opening in Virginia?

New business records in Virginia by sector, September 27 – October 27, 2026
Sector	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records
Restaurants	143	17,000	8.4
Hair and beauty salons	122	14,007	8.7
Construction companies	79	11,571	6.8
Auto repair shops	70	8,644	8.1
Dentists and dental clinics	66	7,666	8.6
Real estate agencies	55	19,330	2.8
Supermarkets and grocery stores	54	4,811	11.2
Cafés	43	2,310	18.6
Bakeries and pastry shops	34	2,448	13.9
Clothing stores	30	3,635	8.3
Gyms and fitness studios	22	2,041	10.8
Car dealers	19	2,427	7.8
Bars and pubs	16	694	23.1
Pharmacies	5	1,651	3.0

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

Restaurants are the largest group of new Virginia records (143), followed by hair and beauty salons (122) and construction companies (79). Grocery is the sector that stands out. Virginia received 54 new supermarket and grocery store records; of the states in this month’s twelve-state series, only Pennsylvania (94) and Ohio (81) received more, while Georgia, North Carolina and New Jersey — each with more grocery records in our database than Virginia — received fewer. By rate, bars and pubs (23.1 per 1,000) and cafés (18.6) lead; real estate agencies come last (2.8) — with 19,330 records, more than any other sector in Virginia, they received only 55 new ones.

How does Virginia compare with its neighbors?

Virginia and its neighbors: new business records, September 27 – October 27, 2026
State	New records	All records in our database	New per 1,000 records	Rank by new records
North Carolina	5,617	764,571	7.3	10th
Virginia	5,138	524,515	9.8	12th
Tennessee	3,841	467,280	8.2	18th
Maryland	3,606	402,247	9.0	20th
Kentucky	2,396	271,327	8.8	29th
West Virginia	863	104,324	8.3	44th
District of Columbia	827	60,455	13.7	45th

September 27 – October 27, 2026. Ranks are among the 50 states and D.C.. A state counts only the new records whose address already carries it; new per 1,000 relates them to all records we hold for the state.

North Carolina received more new records than Virginia (5,617), but from a larger base, so its rate is lower: 7.3 per 1,000 against 9.8. The District of Columbia is the smallest entry by count (827) and has the highest rate of the group, 13.7 per 1,000 — 3rd of the 50 states and D.C.. For a team that covers the Washington, D.C. region, the District and Maryland (3,606) come on top of Northern Virginia’s cities.

Selling to new Virginia businesses

Draw territories by region, and name the cities. Hampton Roads (Virginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Newport News, Hampton), the Richmond area (the city with Henrico and Chesterfield counties) and Northern Virginia (Fairfax, Loudoun, Prince William and Arlington counties, the city of Alexandria) are territories of their own. Virginia’s cities are independent: they are not part of the county around them, so a territory drawn by county has to list its cities as well.
Grocery and food service. 54 new grocery records, 143 restaurants, 43 cafés and 34 bakeries in 30 days — buyers of refrigeration, shelving, card terminals and food and beverage supply. What the grocery flow looks like across countries: new grocery stores and supermarkets.
Websites. Lynchburg (26.6%) and Newport News (25.8%) have the largest shares of records with a phone but no website information in the table, Tysons the smallest (13.3%) — where a web designer’s list is longest relative to the city.

How to pull the Virginia list

Location: United States, State: Virginia, then the counties and the independent cities in your territory — in Virginia a city is not part of the county around it.
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: “grocery store” and “supermarket” 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.

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

Some new records do not carry a state or a city yet — more often in service-area trades such as construction than in restaurants or shops. They count for Virginia only once the state is on the address, so the figures here are a lower bound, and they are compared only with other U.S. states, never with national totals. The city table lists the 15 cities with the most records in our Virginia database; their new records do not add up to the state’s, because some new records carry no city and others are in smaller places.

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. Phone and website shares are of all records, not only new ones. Across 35 countries, 13.5% of new dental records carry a phone number that also appears on another new record. Business applications counted by the U.S. Census Bureau are a different series, which we never subtract from ours or divide by it — business applications vs businesses that open. Measured on October 27, 2026.

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