WI Second in Small Biz Activity

by Taylor Kennedy

Kauffman Foundation

In the Kauffman Index of Main Street Entrepreneurship report released yesterday, Wisconsin ranked second in small business activity.

The annual calculates a broad index measure of small and local business activity across all U.S. states. Wisconsin had a 50.77 percent survival rate for firms, while 6.46 percent of the state’s population own a business as their primary job.

The second-place ranking is up one from the 2015 report; Minnesota took the top spot for the second consecutive year.