Where to Buy a Business in Georgia
The Opportunity
Buyable Businesses
26,507
3.1% of the U.S. total
Rank by Targets
#9
Of the 10 deepest states
SBA Acquisition Loans
1,312
$1.90B since FY2020
Median SBA Deal
$920k
FY2020 through FY2025
Georgia holds 26,507 businesses a searcher could realistically buy across the trades this site covers: establishments with 5 to 99 employees, big enough to have something to sell and small enough to finance. That is 3.1% of the country's buyable market and ranks Georgia #9 among the states. The number that decides a search, though, is not the state total but where inside the state those businesses sit.
The Deepest Counties in Georgia
Nobody searches Georgia. They search a metro they can drive across to meet an owner. These are the counties with the most buyable targets in the covered trades, Fulton deepest among them.
| Fulton | 3,575 | 13.5% |
| Gwinnett | 2,527 | 9.5% |
| Cobb | 2,275 | 8.6% |
| DeKalb | 1,759 | 6.6% |
| Chatham | 1,036 | 3.9% |
| Cherokee | 629 | 2.4% |
| Forsyth | 604 | 2.3% |
| Muscogee | 562 | 2.1% |
| Henry | 525 | 2% |
| Richmond | 497 | 1.9% |
What Trades Run Deepest in Georgia
- Limited-Service Restaurants7,097 buyable
- Full-Service Restaurants5,788 buyable
- Offices of Dentists2,391 buyable
- Child Day Care Services1,829 buyable
- Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars1,280 buyable
- Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors1,264 buyable
Each trade's pricing, licensing, and diligence live in its Industry Buy Guide. The financing side of Georgia is in its SBA acquisition-lending profile.
Method & Source
Buyable counts are establishments with 5 to 99 employees in the 21 covered trades, summed from the Census County Business Patterns (2022). A county total is a lower bound: Census suppresses cells thin enough to identify a single business, and a trade we have not written a guide for is not counted. SBA figures are change-of-ownership 7(a) approvals (FY2020 through FY2025), approvals rather than closings. Free to cite with attribution.