City rankings

Fastest-growing cities for new businesses in New York

Pearl River grew fastest: 514 new businesses, up 116% from the 12 months before. Albany had the most new businesses of any New York city in the 12 months through September 2026: 42,974, 16% of the state total.

Fastest-growing New York cities

#	City	New businesses	Year before	Change
1	Pearl River	514	238	+116%
2	Central Islip	601	358	+68%
3	West Harrison	186	117	+59%
4	Westhampton Beach	112	71	+58%
5	Montauk	136	87	+56%
6	Ballston Lake	120	78	+54%
7	Massapequa Park	156	103	+51%
8	Cortland	139	92	+51%
9	Uniondale	707	473	+49%
10	Lake Grove	185	125	+48%
11	Glen Oaks	142	97	+46%
12	Garnerville	102	70	+46%
13	North Bellmore	150	104	+44%
14	Walden	117	82	+43%
15	Fulton	112	79	+42%
16	Cicero	139	101	+38%
17	Cortlandt Manor	229	167	+37%
18	Auburn	227	166	+37%
19	Wallkill	120	88	+36%
20	Rome	192	143	+34%
21	Rye	317	237	+34%
22	West Islip	288	218	+32%
23	Corning	107	81	+32%
24	Island Park	118	90	+31%
25	North Tonawanda	258	197	+31%

New businesses formed in the 12 months through September 2026 against the 12 months before. Cities with at least 100 this year and 50 the year before.

New York cities with the most new businesses

#	City	New businesses	Share of state	Change
1	Albany	42,974	16%	+23%
2	New York	39,349	14%	+1%
3	Brooklyn	37,451	14%	+0%
4	Bronx	9,746	4%	+3%
5	Flushing	5,562	2%	+0%
6	Staten Island	5,213	2%	+1%
7	Buffalo	3,887	1%	+5%
8	Rochester	3,512	1%	+8%
9	Jamaica	2,746	1%	-3%
10	Astoria	1,931	1%	+4%
11	Yonkers	1,910	1%	-3%
12	Great Neck	1,904	1%	+4%
13	Monsey	1,781	1%	+20%
14	Spring Valley	1,667	1%	+13%
15	Syracuse	1,575	1%	+10%
16	Monroe	1,494	1%	+6%
17	White Plains	1,396	1%	+11%
18	Valley Stream	1,313	0%	+0%
19	Long Island City	1,273	0%	+2%
20	New Rochelle	995	0%	+17%
21	Ridgewood	948	0%	+10%
22	Hicksville	946	0%	+8%
23	Schenectady	937	0%	+6%
24	Melville	910	0%	+11%
25	Forest Hills	873	0%	-11%

New businesses formed in the 12 months through September 2026.

Want the businesses, not just the count?

The new New York businesses behind these rankings are available as a file: name, address, entity type, formation month and, where the state publishes it, the registered agent.

New Business Monthly

$199 a month

One file every month with the businesses newly registered across 12 states since the file before (more than 170,000 in the latest one). Cancel any time.

Get new businesses every month

New Business File

$1,499 one time

Every business formed in the last 12 months across 15 states: more than 2.2 million records, one CSV per state, with 2 monthly updates included.

Get the last 12 months

The formation date in the files is the year and month. Most records have no email address or EIN.

Get a list of new New York businesses by city

See the exact count and price as you filter by county, city, ZIP, entity type and formation date. Download a CSV right away and get monthly refreshes. Verified businesses can pay 20% today and the rest over 6 months with Pay-in-6™, building business credit as they pay.

Build this list

Common questions

Which New York city has the most new businesses?

Albany had the most new businesses of any New York city in the 12 months through September 2026: 42,974, 16% of the state total.

Which New York city is growing fastest for new businesses?

Pearl River grew fastest: 514 new businesses, up 116% from the 12 months before. The ranking covers cities with at least 100 new businesses in the 12 months through September 2026 and 50 in the 12 months before.

Where do these numbers come from?

From New York's official business registry. ListRiver counts businesses by the formation date the state reports and the city of the business address on file.

Monthly New York new-business reports · All states ranked · New York businesses by county and city

Methodology

Counts are businesses registered with the state of New York whose formation (registration) date falls in the period shown and that appear on the state register in ListRiver's data. City is the business address on file, with spellings as the state records them. Businesses already dissolved are not counted, so the earlier 12 months are slightly understated and increases slightly overstated; the effect is similar across a state's cities, so the order is a fair comparison. More in the methodology.

Cite this page: ListRiver, “Fastest-growing cities for new businesses in New York”, https://listriver.com/reports/new-businesses/new-york/cities. Journalists and researchers are welcome to use these figures with a link.