Vermont Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

May 23, 2024

Delaney Sexton
Contributing Editor

Vermont Small Businesses: Five Fast Facts

  • There are 76,878 small businesses in Vermont.
  • Vermont small businesses added 99.9% of all new jobs between March 2021 and March 2022.
  • In 2021, banks issued $188 million in loans to businesses with revenues of $1 million or less.
  • New lending to businesses through loans of $1 million or less was $632.5 million.
  • Small businesses accounted for 60.4% of Vermont employment in 2020, exceeding the national small business employment share.

Source:
SBA Office of Advocacy 2023 Vermont Small Business Profile