According to a survey conducted in South Korea in July 2021, about 33.3 percent of small business owners stated that they are considering closing their business either temporarily or permanently due to COVID-19 regulations. About 24 percent even indicated that they were seriously considering doing so.

27% of the entire small business workforce had to be laid off or furloughed in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The Small Business Administration maintains the Dynamic Small Business Search (DSBS) database. As a small business registers in the System for Award Management, there is an opportunity to fill out the small business profile. The information provided populates DSBS. DSBS is another tool contracting officers use to identify potential small business contractors for upcoming contracting opportunities. Small businesses can also use DSBS to identify other small businesses for teaming and joint venturing.

United States SB: OR: OP: Closures: Permanently Closed a Location data was reported at 3.100 % in 21 Mar 2022. United States SB: OR: OP: Closures: Permanently Closed a Location data is updated weekly, averaging 3.100 % from Mar 2022 (Median) to 21 Mar 2022, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.100 % in 21 Mar 2022 and a record low of 3.100 % in 21 Mar 2022. United States SB: OR: OP: Closures: Permanently Closed a Location data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.S053: Small Business Pulse Survey: by State: West Region: Weekly, Beg Monday (Discontinued).

This survey shows an outlook of small business owners on their company's revenue development over the next 12 months in the United States from 2016 to 2020, by quarter. In the fourth quarter of 2020, about ** percent of small business owners stated their revenue would increase a little/a lot until the fourth quarter of 2021.

These small business statistics will tell you everything you need to know about the growth of business and where it’s going in the future.

The below table shows a complete breakdown of employer businesses owned by minorities.

The dataset exists to observe the entrepreneurial activity of Austin over a long time period. The data comes from the U.S. Census County Business Pattern table and is capturing data at the Travis County level. It contains the cumulative count of firms by employee size and count of firms by employee size by industry. This data can be used to see changes of employer growth by industry; to project where workforce growth could be occurring; or to simply see how many small businesses there are in Austin. View more details and insights related to this data set on the story page: data.austintexas.gov/stories/s/ndb5-si22

Small Business Development Centers (SBDCs) provide assistance to small businesses and aspiring entrepreneurs throughout the United States and its territories. SBDCs help entrepreneurs realize the dream of business ownership and help existing businesses remain competitive in a complex, ever-changing global marketplace. SBDCs are hosted by leading universities and state economic development agencies, and funded in part through a partnership with SBA.

This measure presents the cumulative number of small businesses receiving relief payments funded by the Coronavirus Relief Fund money appropriated to Iowa through the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act.

SB: AL: OP: Closures: Temporarily Closed a Location data was reported at 3.600 % in 04 Jan 2021. SB: AL: OP: Closures: Temporarily Closed a Location data is updated weekly, averaging 3.600 % from Jan 2021 (Median) to 04 Jan 2021, with 1 observations. The data reached an all-time high of 3.600 % in 04 Jan 2021 and a record low of 3.600 % in 04 Jan 2021. SB: AL: OP: Closures: Temporarily Closed a Location data remains active status in CEIC and is reported by U.S. Census Bureau. The data is categorized under Global Database’s United States – Table US.S051: Small Business Pulse Survey: by State: South Region: Weekly, Beg Monday (Discontinued).

Listing of recipients of several City of Cambridge COVID-19 grant and loan award programs. Data covers MDRF, CDBG-CARES Act, and ARPA funding.

As of June 9, 2025, there are no future updates planned for this dataset.

The Robust Retail grant, administered by the Department of Small and Local Business Development, is intended to provide direct assistance to small and local storefront businesses. These funds have been leveraged for a wide range of purposes to include façade improvement, expansion, and purchasing inventory and have resulted in increase of sales, customer acquisition and job creation.

One of the cool things about most small business owners is that they come from all different demographics and backgrounds.

The mission of the Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization (OSDBU) is to implement and execute the functions and duties of Section 8 and 15 of the Small Business Act (SBAct). Section 15 states that a fair proportion of the total purchases and contracts for property and services for the Government are to be placed with small business concerns. The implementation and execution of Section 8 and 15 of the SBAct are demonstrated and measured by the Department’s ability to work towards exceeding statutory prime, sub and socio-economic small business goals, providing education on the management & operations business model, continuous improvement of best practices such as the Mentor-Protégé Program, providing information on financial assistance opportunities, providing training to small businesses, participating and conducting outreach events for small businesses, ensuring compliance with Federal Acquisition Regulations and other applicable small business laws and regulations, issuing new small business policies and updating existing small business policies at the Department.

This table lists small business size standards matched to industries described in the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS), as modified by the Office of Management and Budget effective January 1, 2012.

This table includes total expenses, cost of sales (direct expenses), wages and benefits, purchases, materials and sub-contracts, opening inventory, closing inventory, operating expenses (indirect expenses), labour and commissions, amortization and depletion, repairs and maintenance, utilities and telephone and telecommunication, rent, interest and bank charges, advertising and promotion, delivery and shipping and warehouse, insurance, other indirect expenses, net profit or loss. All incorporation statuses. Values are averages in current dollars unless otherwise stated.

A list of businesses deemed essential and non-essential during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak in Delaware. Non-essential businesses were closed on March 24, 2020 at 8am by order from the Governor. Certain business categories are allowed to re-open by Governor's announcements. Data from Division of Small Business.

This data set tracks the number of established businesses, non-profits, and startups that the City of Austin Economic Development and Small and Minority Business Resources departments supported each year. The data set lists the programs each business was served through, the race or ethnicity of the CEO or Executive supported, and zipcode, if available. This data can be used to distinguish areas of Austin and around the globe that have received small business services as well as the racial makeup of the executives of these established businesses, non-profits, and startups.

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Monthly dataset showing change in sales and jobs recorded by Xero, an online accounting software platform. This dataset is updated on a quarterly basis. These are official statistics in development. Source: Xero.