Find a Job You Really Want In
Whether it be a small restaurant in town or the next unicorn start up, entrepreneurs all across America are starting businesses every day. Heck, we are just starting up Zippia and it’s both exciting and scary.
So we decided to take a dive into the data and figure out which parts of Washington offer the most for would be entrepreneurs. These are the cities that have relatively cheap costs to start up, a solid stock of employees, and, most importantly, a lot of businesses starting per capita.
These aren’t necessarily the tech or talent hubs of the state, rather the places where if you want to open your corner shop, it has just the climate to do so.
After sifting through the data, we ended up with this set of ten places in Washington that are ideal for getting your new company off the ground:
- Lakeland North
- Clarkston Heights-Vineland
- Lakeland South
- Fort Lewis
- Bryn Mawr-Skyway
- West Clarkston-Highland
- College Place
- Pacific
- Parkwood
- Moses Lake North
Read on to see how these places have created solid foundations for new companies to grow.
How We Identified The Best Places To Start A Company In Washington
There are certain criteria that came to mind when we sat down to analze the best places to start a company. Specifically, the idea that if other businesses are operating there, then it most be a good place to start a new one.
With that in mind we settled on this set criteria:
- Businesses Per Capita
- Unemployment rate
- Cost of living
- Median Income
The data was taken from two censuses reports — the 2013 American Community Survey and the 2012 Survey of Businesses.
We ranked each place with over 5,000 people in Washing for each criteria from one to 183. The lower the ranking, the better for that criteria. We then averaged across all the criteria with the lowest overall score being crowned the best place to start a business in Washington.
Lakeland North
Clarkston Heights-Vineland
Lakeland South
Fort Lewis
Bryn Mawr-Skyway
West Clarkston-Highland
College Place
Pacific
Parkwood
Moses Lake North
Author
Chris Kolmar is a co-founder of Zippia and the editor-in-chief of the Zippia career advice blog. He has hired over 50 people in his career, been hired five times, and wants to help you land your next job. His research has been featured on the New York Times, Thrillist, VOX, The Atlantic, and a host of local news. More recently, he's been quoted on USA Today, BusinessInsider, and CNBC.
