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Where to Buy a Business in Hawaii

The Opportunity

Buyable Businesses

4,419

0.4% of the U.S. total

Per 100k Residents

305.6

#43 of 51 states by buyable count

SBA Acquisition Loans

45

$41.1M since FY2020, 10 of them in FY2025

Median SBA Deal

$545k

FY2020 through FY2025

Hawaii holds 4,419 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, small enough to finance. That is 0.4% of the country's buyable market and ranks Hawaii #43 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 Hawaii

Nobody searches Hawaii. 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, Honolulu deepest among them.

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The counties with the most buyable businesses in the state
Honolulu2,96067%
Hawaii54812.4%
Maui52111.8%
Kauai2716.1%

What Trades Run Deepest in Hawaii

Each trade's pricing, licensing, and diligence live in its Industry Buy Guide. The financing side is in Hawaii's SBA acquisition-lending profile. The same counts industry by industry across every state are in Where the Businesses Are, and several of these trades restrict who can own at all: the Ownership & License Rules table names which.

Method & Source

Buyable counts are establishments with 5 to 99 employees in the 29 covered trades, summed from the Census County Business Patterns (2023). 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.