Where to Buy a Business in Oregon
The Opportunity
Buyable Businesses
15,103
1.5% of the U.S. total
Per 100k Residents
353.5
#24 of 51 states by buyable count
SBA Acquisition Loans
483
$561M since FY2020, 90 of them in FY2025
Median SBA Deal
$680k
FY2020 through FY2025
Oregon holds 15,103 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 1.5% of the country's buyable market and ranks Oregon #24 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 Oregon
Nobody searches Oregon. 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, Multnomah deepest among them.
| Multnomah | 3,228 | 21.4% |
| Washington | 2,136 | 14.1% |
| Clackamas | 1,501 | 9.9% |
| Lane | 1,293 | 8.6% |
| Marion | 1,145 | 7.6% |
| Deschutes | 881 | 5.8% |
| Jackson | 754 | 5% |
| Douglas | 305 | 2% |
| Yamhill | 299 | 2% |
| Linn | 293 | 1.9% |
What Trades Run Deepest in Oregon
- Full-Service Restaurants3,111 buyable
- Limited-Service Restaurants2,631 buyable
- Offices of Dentists1,355 buyable
- Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars1,184 buyable
- Child Day Care Services728 buyable
- Gasoline Stations with Convenience Stores594 buyable
Each trade's pricing, licensing, and diligence live in its Industry Buy Guide. The financing side is in Oregon'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 Oregon
Nobody buys a state. These are the states Oregon touches, with the buyable businesses each holds in the same 29 trades.
- California123,188 buyable
- Idaho6,843 buyable
- Nevada10,221 buyable
- Washington25,069 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.