Nebraska Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

April 23, 2024

Delaney Sexton
Contributing Editor

Nebraska Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

There were 181,742 small businesses in Nebraska.
Almost 7,000 new small businesses opened between March 2021 and March 2022.
Small businesses contributed a net increase of 14,180 jobs during that period.
New lending to businesses through loans of $1 million or less was $1.8 billion.
In 2021, reporting banks issued $690.6 million in loans to Nebraska businesses with revenues of $1 million or less.