Where to Buy a Business in New York

The Opportunity

Buyable Businesses

48,124

5.7% of the U.S. total

Rank by Targets

Of the 10 deepest states

SBA Acquisition Loans

1,092

$1.12B since FY2020

Median SBA Deal

$597k

FY2020 through FY2025

New York holds 48,124 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 5.7% of the country's buyable market and ranks New York #4 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 New York

Nobody searches New York. 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, New York deepest among them.

The counties with the most buyable businesses in the state

New York	7,604	15.8%
Kings	4,708	9.8%
Suffolk	4,504	9.4%
Nassau	4,117	8.6%
Queens	4,038	8.4%
Westchester	2,774	5.8%
Erie	2,513	5.2%
Monroe	1,946	4%
Bronx	1,432	3%
Onondaga	1,198	2.5%

What Trades Run Deepest in New York

Full-Service Restaurants12,203 buyable
Limited-Service Restaurants9,320 buyable
Offices of Dentists4,441 buyable
Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars3,860 buyable
Child Day Care Services2,951 buyable
Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors2,653 buyable

Each trade's pricing, licensing, and diligence live in its Industry Buy Guide. The financing side of New York 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.