Where to Buy a Business in Nevada
The Opportunity
Buyable Businesses
10,221
1% of the U.S. total
Per 100k Residents
312.8
#32 of 51 states by buyable count
SBA Acquisition Loans
294
$326M since FY2020, 60 of them in FY2025
Median SBA Deal
$725k
FY2020 through FY2025
Nevada holds 10,221 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 1% of the country's buyable market and ranks Nevada #32 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 Nevada
Nobody searches Nevada. 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, Clark deepest among them.
| Clark | 7,368 | 72.1% |
| Washoe | 1,774 | 17.4% |
| Carson City | 210 | 2.1% |
| Douglas | 140 | 1.4% |
| Elko | 105 | 1% |
| Lyon | 90 | 0.9% |
| Nye | 83 | 0.8% |
| Churchill | 40 | 0.4% |
| Humboldt | 37 | 0.4% |
| Storey | 6 | 0.1% |
What Trades Run Deepest in Nevada
- Limited-Service Restaurants2,414 buyable
- Full-Service Restaurants1,796 buyable
- Offices of Dentists777 buyable
- Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars609 buyable
- Gasoline Stations with Convenience Stores599 buyable
- Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors452 buyable
Each trade's pricing, licensing, and diligence live in its Industry Buy Guide. The financing side is in Nevada'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.
Next Door to Nevada
Nobody buys a state. These are the states Nevada touches, with the buyable businesses each holds in the same 29 trades.
- Arizona21,015 buyable
- California123,188 buyable
- Idaho6,843 buyable
- Oregon15,103 buyable
- Utah10,753 buyable
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.