Top growing small businesses in Vermont
Which small-business types are adding jobs fastest in Vermont right now, ranked from official BLS employment data. Free, updated every quarter, with a JSON API.
Ranking · Vermont · 2026 Q1
Ranked by the change in jobs compared with the same quarter one year earlier. Rows marked n/a are suppressed by BLS for confidentiality.
| # | Business type | Jobs YoY | Locations YoY | Locations | Jobs | Avg weekly wage | Startup range | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Food trucks & mobile food NAICS 722330 | +37.7% | -7.5% | 37 | 146 | $539 | $50,000–$300,000 | Analyze → |
| 2 | Coffee shops & cafés NAICS 722515 | +5.3% | -3.9% | 124 | 1,025 | $520 | $50,000–$300,000 | Analyze → |
| 3 | Landscaping services NAICS 561730 | +4.8% | +3.4% | 570 | 1,815 | $950 | $10,000–$50,000 | Analyze → |
| 4 | Gyms & fitness studios NAICS 713940 | +4.3% | -7.4% | 100 | 1,321 | $343 | $30,000–$200,000 | Analyze → |
| 5 | Hair & beauty salons NAICS 812112 | +3.2% | -1.6% | 124 | 606 | $693 | $20,000–$100,000 | Analyze → |
| 6 | Child day care NAICS 624410 | +0.7% | -2.5% | 268 | 3,223 | $713 | $30,000–$150,000 | Analyze → |
| 7 | Full-service restaurants NAICS 722511 | -0.1% | -5.9% | 559 | 9,046 | $585 | $50,000–$300,000 | Analyze → |
| 8 | Quick-service restaurants NAICS 722513 | -0.8% | -3.6% | 461 | 5,707 | $502 | $50,000–$300,000 | Analyze → |
| 9 | Pet care & grooming NAICS 812910 | -0.8% | -3.2% | 90 | 504 | $661 | $10,000–$50,000 | Analyze → |
| 10 | Auto repair shops NAICS 811111 | -2.9% | -4.0% | 310 | 1,249 | $1,044 | $50,000–$300,000 | Analyze → |
| 11 | Cleaning & janitorial NAICS 561720 | -4.2% | -5.4% | 227 | 1,359 | $541 | $10,000–$50,000 | Analyze → |
| 12 | Bars & taverns NAICS 722410 | n/a | n/a | 106 | 887 | $528 | $50,000–$300,000 | Analyze → |
| 13 | Nail salons NAICS 812113 | n/a | n/a | 33 | 116 | $570 | $20,000–$100,000 | Analyze → |
Every state
Growth is local. The same business type can be booming in one state and shrinking in the next.
Methodology
- Source. U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages (QCEW), private-sector rows, 6-digit NAICS. QCEW is a near-complete count from unemployment-insurance filings, not a survey.
- Period. 2026 Q1, the latest quarter BLS has published. Each figure is compared with the same quarter a year earlier, using BLS's own over-the-year change fields.
- Ranking. By year-over-year change in month-three employment. Ties and suppressed values sort to the bottom.
- Business types. 14 consumer-facing industries that first-time entrepreneurs commonly open. The set is fixed so rankings are comparable across states.
- Startup range. Neur's planning range for the industry category, the same figures used by the Financial pillar of a Neur report. See the methodology.
- Refresh. Data is re-fetched from BLS daily and changes when a new quarter is released (about five months after the quarter ends).
- Caveats. Growth in jobs is not the same as room for a new entrant; a fast-growing type can also be getting crowded. Use a Neur report to check competition and demographics for a specific city.
Free JSON API
The full dataset is available as JSON with CORS enabled. No key required. Please cache responses for at least an hour.
| Endpoint | Returns |
|---|---|
GET /api/data/top-businesses | National ranking plus all 50 states |
GET /api/data/top-businesses?state=texas | One state (slug is the lowercase state name, hyphenated) |
Fields per row: naics, label, establishments, employment, avgWeeklyWage, employmentChangePct, establishmentsChangePct, wageChangePct, startupCost. Top level: period, source, generatedAt.
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