Los Angeles County and Sheridan County, Wyoming, don’t share many similarities, except for one main area: a high volume of business applications.
That’s one of several findings from the US Census Bureau’s most recent business application data release in June. The data track applications for Employer Identification Numbers (EINs) submitted to the Internal Revenue Service.
Business Insider sorted the data by which US counties saw the most EIN applications and calculated the percent change compared to 2024 data, while also cross-referencing with the agency’s 2025 county population dataset to determine the rate of applications per 1,000 residents…
