Companies by state and province

Each state links its filing department — the Secretary of State, the department of commerce and consumer affairs in Hawaii, or the Department of the Treasury in New Jersey — so a count traces to the office that keeps the record. A Secretary of State search typically returns an entity’s status, formation date and registered agent.

Provincial corporate registries and Corporations Canada, each row named as the agency styles itself.

Netstate is heading toward worldwide company data. These registers are not loaded yet — each country page shows the regions and cities we plan to cover, with no company listings until the records are real. Live coverage today is the US and Canada above.

Every figure ties back to a government department — most often a Secretary of State business services or corporations division, but also a state treasury or department of commerce and consumer affairs. Netstate reads the business filings those offices publish, so a count of business entities reflects the official register, not an estimate. Those records commonly show status, formation date and registered agent for each entity. A company that operates in another state may also appear there as a foreign entity.

A dash means that register’s records are not loaded yet — the row is listed rather than given an estimate. Figures are read from the public records on each register’s own cadence, so a jurisdiction that files new companies updates as its source publishes. Field provenance is documented in the methodology; request a correction if a figure looks wrong.