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Nashville files about 95 new businesses a week
A year of county filings, counted: the pace, the mix, and where new Nashville businesses are landing.
Count the paperwork and Nashville's growth stops being a vibe and becomes a number. Over the last 12 months, Davidson County took in 4,925 new business filings. Spread evenly, that is about 410 a month, about 95 a week, every week, for a year.
The rhythm
The pace is not flat. The busiest month was March 2026, with 575 filings; the quietest full month was December 2025, with 273. The final month in the count is partial: filings are in through Oct 17, 2026.
| Month | Filings |
|---|---|
| November 2025 | 358 |
| December 2025 | 273 |
| January 2026 | 455 |
| February 2026 | 433 |
| March 2026 | 575 |
| April 2026 | 559 |
| May 2026 | 457 |
| June 2026 | 475 |
| July 2026 | 396 |
| August 2026 | 382 |
| September 2026 | 382 |
| October 2026 | 180 |
The mix
What is filing is not mostly restaurants, however it can feel that way on a Saturday night. Construction and the trades are the largest group by a wide margin, then places to eat, then shops:
| Kind of business | Businesses | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Construction & Trades | 1,994 | 20% |
| Restaurants & Dining | 959 | 10% |
| Retail | 851 | 9% |
| Home Services | 790 | 8% |
| Professional Services | 642 | 6% |
Another 2,401 businesses land in an "Other" bucket that does not fit a neat label, which is its own kind of Nashville story.
Where
The filings cluster in the county's big commercial corridors:
| Neighborhood | Businesses |
|---|---|
| Antioch | 1,372 |
| Donelson–Hermitage | 1,358 |
| Nolensville Pike Corridor | 1,046 |
| Downtown & SoBro | 739 |
| Germantown & Salemtown | 644 |
Filed is not open
Of the 9,963 businesses being tracked, 711 are confirmed open. The other 9,252 have filed and not yet been confirmed open. That gap is the point of this publication: the filing is the first public sign of a business, weeks or months before the door opens.
How this was counted
Every figure above comes from the published business listings and their county filing dates: 10,256 filings across 9,963 businesses, with the 12-month window running from November 2025 through October 2026. The weekly average is the 12-month filing total divided by 52.
Read more
- Nashville by the numbers - the full tables behind this story.
- This week in Nashville business filings - what one of those weeks actually looks like.
- Latest openings - the newest businesses, with badges.