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Business & area data
State registries record that a company exists, who is attached to it, and where it says it operates; census and tax tables describe the areas around it. These posts cover reading that public data the way it was meant to be read: officer disclosure that differs by state, filing feeds that lag by days, mail-drop addresses that inflate counts, and margins of error that decide whether a ZIP-level number means anything.
New to the topic? Start with the guide: Business entity search across state registries.
Posts
2026-10-07
Reading new business formations by ZIP codeHow to read new business formations by ZIP code without fooling yourself: mail-drop addresses, partial months, survival bias, and density per resident.
2026-10-07
How to find who owns an LLC, state by stateFind who owns an LLC from public filings: which states name officers, how to see past registered agents, and how to confirm a same-name match.
2026-10-07
New business filings: building a clean lead listA new business filings list goes stale fast and fills with filing-service noise. How to pull, filter, and work fresh LLC filings while they matter.
2026-10-07
ZIP code economic data: sources and error marginsWhere ZIP code economic data comes from (ACS, IRS, FHFA, ZIP Business Patterns), how old each number is, and how to read margins of error correctly.