Colorado Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

March 13, 2024

Delaney Sexton
Contributing Editor

Colorado Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

More than 30,000 new small businesses opened from March 2021 to March 2022.
Over 360,000 new jobs were created by small businesses during that same period.
In 2021, $2.2 billion in loans were issued to businesses with revenues of $1 million or less.
Colorado’s largest small business industry is Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services, making up 17% of Colorado’s small businesses.
87.8% of all Colorado exporters were small businesses.