Where to Buy a Business in Wyoming
The Opportunity
Buyable Businesses
2,350
0.2% of the U.S. total
Per 100k Residents
399.9
#50 of 51 states by buyable count
SBA Acquisition Loans
80
$97.1M since FY2020, 12 of them in FY2025
Median SBA Deal
$722k
FY2020 through FY2025
Wyoming holds 2,350 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 0.2% of the country's buyable market and ranks Wyoming #50 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 Wyoming
Nobody searches Wyoming. 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, Natrona deepest among them.
| Natrona | 319 | 13.6% |
| Laramie | 294 | 12.5% |
| Teton | 152 | 6.5% |
| Campbell | 152 | 6.5% |
| Sheridan | 121 | 5.1% |
| Sweetwater | 117 | 5% |
| Fremont | 109 | 4.6% |
| Albany | 109 | 4.6% |
| Park | 97 | 4.1% |
| Lincoln | 53 | 2.3% |
What Trades Run Deepest in Wyoming
- Full-Service Restaurants389 buyable
- Limited-Service Restaurants346 buyable
- Gasoline Stations with Convenience Stores203 buyable
- Offices of Dentists149 buyable
- Child Day Care Services137 buyable
- Plumbing, Heating, and Air-Conditioning Contractors132 buyable
Each trade's pricing, licensing, and diligence live in its Industry Buy Guide. The financing side is in Wyoming'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 Wyoming
Nobody buys a state. These are the states Wyoming touches, with the buyable businesses each holds in the same 29 trades.
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.