Georgia Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

March 21, 2024

Delaney Sexton
Contributing Editor

Georgia Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

Georgia has 1.2 million small businesses that employ 1.7 million people.
From March 2021 to March 2022, 43,472 small businesses opened.
Georgia small business employment grew by 24.3% between 1996 and 2020.
Small businesses in the Accommodation and Food Services industry employed the greatest number of employees at almost 267,000.
Racial minorities owned 38.4% of Georgia’s small businesses, and women owned 46.4% of Georgia’s small businesses.