See where business openings are being filed across Texas. Explore the last 90 days by city and sector, check how the public records are counted, or download the totals. A filing is a signal of activity, not confirmation that a business has opened.
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8,944 new businesses filed to open across 193 Texas cities in the last 90 days, by Voltcheckr LLC's derivation from public records (as of October 7, 2026). The cities with the most filings: Houston 1,315, San Antonio 561, Austin 536. The sectors with the most filings: Retail & Shopping Centers 2,368, Restaurants & Food Service 2,225, Professional Offices 738. Every one of those businesses will need an electricity account; in deregulated Texas territory it chooses its supply contract, and the local delivery utility carries the power either way.
Sources: Texas Comptroller sales tax, mixed beverage and tobacco permits, TABC applications and licenses, and city and county building permits, public records, counts only, derived by Voltcheckr LLC, as of October 7, 2026.
| Sector | Filings, 90 days |
|---|---|
| Retail & Shopping Centers | 2,368 |
| Restaurants & Food Service | 2,225 |
| Professional Offices | 738 |
| Warehouses & Distribution | 694 |
| Gyms & Fitness Centers | 128 |
| Healthcare & Medical Clinics | 113 |
| Hotels & Hospitality | 97 |
| Churches & Houses of Worship | 8 |
| other businesses | 2,573 |
Voltcheckr LLC reads five public feeds nightly (Texas Comptroller sales tax, mixed beverage and tobacco permits, TABC applications and licenses, and city and county building permits), keeps the filings that describe a business opening or fitting out a commercial premises, drops home-based registrations and businesses public listings already show as operating, matches each filing to a Texas city page, and counts by NAICS sector. Nothing but a city, a sector and a count is stored or published.
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A public record that says a business is opening or fitting out a commercial premises: a new sales tax permit with a future or recent first-sales date, a pending or newly issued TABC license, a mixed beverage or tobacco permit, or a fit-out or certificate-of-occupancy permit. Maintenance permits, home-based registrations and filings by businesses that public listings already show as operating are left out.
Because a new business needs an electricity account, and in deregulated Texas territory it chooses its supplier. The counts say where the market is moving month to month, city by city, and the same public records are what Voltcheckr LLC reads to find businesses opening near its clients. No business is named here; the counts are the whole dataset.
Yes, with attribution to Voltcheckr LLC and a link to this page. The counts are Voltcheckr LLC's own derivation from public records; the Texas Comptroller, the TABC and the permit offices publish the underlying filings and are not the source of these totals.
Cite as: Voltcheckr LLC, New businesses opening in Texas (derived from public records), voltcheckr.com/business-electricity/new-businesses.
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