Official statistics
How many new corporations, LLCs and partnerships are filed with the state each year? The figures below are published by the Florida Division of Corporations. They are official figures of the state, not counts from our own dataset.
Source: Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Yearly Statistics · read October 11, 2026 · Content last revised: October 13, 2026
“Totals reflect the number of new documents filed between January 1 and December 31 of each year,” according to the Division of Corporations. The total covers all entity types; the two largest are shown separately.
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| Year | All new filings | Change | Domestic LLCs | LLC share | Domestic profit corporations |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 670,459 | +4.5% | 561,143 | 83.7% | 67,082 |
| 2024 | 641,597 | −7.0% | 526,475 | 82.1% | 76,373 |
| 2023 | 689,971 | +3.0% | 562,716 | 81.6% | 87,210 |
| 2022 | 669,679 | −1.3% | 533,137 | 79.6% | 93,537 |
| 2021 | 678,240 | +29.3% | 532,137 | 78.5% | 104,625 |
| 2020 | 524,734 | +19.4% | 398,575 | 76.0% | 98,816 |
| 2019 | 439,528 | – | 310,854 | 70.7% | 95,771 |
Filings jumped in 2021 and have stayed at that level. The growth is almost entirely in LLCs: domestic LLC filings rose from 310,854 in 2019 to 561,143 in 2025, while domestic profit corporations fell from 95,771 to 67,082. Of the 4,129,182 active entities on file, 3,004,129 are LLCs.
Other official counts of Florida businesses, and why they differ, are on the page Florida businesses by county.
The Division of Corporations recorded 670,459 new business entity filings in 2025, of which 561,143 were domestic limited liability companies and 67,082 domestic profit corporations (Florida Department of State, Division of Corporations, Yearly Statistics). A filing is a new document on file with the state, not proof that a business has started operating.
2023, with 689,971 new filings in the years 2019 to 2025. Filings rose sharply from 439,528 in 2019 to 678,240 in 2021 and have stayed above 640,000 a year since.
No. Fictitious name registrations are counted separately: 113,154 new registrations in 2025 and 760,505 active registrations according to the same page.
The state publishes daily files of new filings at no charge; how to read them is explained in How to find new business filings in Florida. In our export, the filing date is a column so a selection by filing date is possible.
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