Duval County Business Data: Jacksonville by the Numbers
Duval County holds 262,136 active corporate registrations and formed 21,920 new entities in 2025. It is Florida's seventh-largest business market, and it is the most LLC-heavy of the state's major counties: 86.9% of Jacksonville's new formations are LLCs, a full point above the statewide rate. It also forms nonprofits at nearly twice the state's rate.
Duval County holds 262,136 active corporate filings and formed 21,920 entities in 2025. First-half 2026 formations reached 12,837, up 8.1% year over year.
Key findings
- 262,136 active corporate registrations, plus 84,058 fictitious name (DBA) registrations, for about 346,000 business identities.
- 86.9% of new formations are LLCs, the highest share among Florida's large counties, against 85.9% statewide.
- Nonprofits make up 3.9% of Duval formations against 2.3% statewide, the widest gap on any entity type in the county.
How many businesses are registered in Duval County?
Duval holds 262,136 active corporate registrations, roughly 3.3% of Florida's 7.88 million. Add 84,058 fictitious name registrations and the county's total business footprint comes to about 346,000 identities.
That places Duval seventh statewide by active registrations, behind Miami-Dade, Broward, Palm Beach, Orange, Hillsborough, and Pinellas. It is a smaller registry than the population ranking would suggest, and that gap is the most interesting thing about Jacksonville's business data.
| Record type | Count |
|---|---|
| Corporate filings (active) | 262,136 |
| Fictitious name registrations (DBAs) | 84,058 |
| Total business identities | 346,194 |
How much of Duval County is Jacksonville?
Almost all of it. Jacksonville proper accounts for 11,748 of the county's 12,837 first-half 2026 formations, with roughly another 250 filed under misspellings and variants of the city name, including "JACKSONVILE", "JACSONVILLE", "JAKSONVILLE", and simply "JAX". Together that is about 92% of the county.
The beach communities make up most of the remainder: Jacksonville Beach with 395 formations, Atlantic Beach with 182, and Neptune Beach with 113. Baldwin and Maxville contribute a few dozen between them.
That concentration is a consequence of Jacksonville's consolidated city and county government, which makes the city and the county nearly the same geographic entity. Most large Florida counties split across several substantial municipalities. Miami-Dade spreads across dozens. Duval effectively does not, which makes it one of the cleaner counties to analyze: the county number and the city number mean roughly the same thing.
What types of businesses form in Jacksonville?
LLCs took 19,053 of the county's 21,920 new 2025 registrations, 86.9%. That is the highest LLC concentration among Florida's large counties and runs a point above the statewide 85.9%.
The more striking figure is nonprofits. Duval formed 858 nonprofit corporations in 2025, 3.9% of its total, against a statewide nonprofit share of 2.3%. Jacksonville forms nonprofits at close to twice the state's rate, one of the few places where a Florida county's entity mix departs meaningfully from the statewide pattern.
Foreign entity registrations run the other way. Duval drew 183 foreign LLCs and 53 foreign corporations in 2025, together 1.1% of formations, against roughly 3.4% statewide. Out-of-state companies registering to operate in Florida land disproportionately in South Florida rather than the northeast, a pattern we covered in out-of-state businesses registering in Florida.
| Entity type | New filings | Share | Statewide share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida LLC (FLAL) | 19,053 | 86.9% | 85.9% |
| Domestic Corporation (DOMP) | 1,752 | 8.0% | 8.2% |
| Domestic Nonprofit (DOMNP) | 858 | 3.9% | 2.3% |
| Foreign LLC (FORL) | 183 | 0.8% | 2.5% |
| Foreign Corporation (FORP) | 53 | 0.2% | 0.9% |
| Other (LP, FORNP, FORLP, trust) | 21 | 0.1% | 0.2% |
| Total | 21,920 | 100% | 100% |
Is Jacksonville growing?
Steadily, and slightly below the state. Duval formations rose from 11,877 in the first half of 2025 to 12,837 in the first half of 2026, up 8.1%. Statewide growth over the same window was 10.6%.
The faster growth in north Florida is happening in the counties around Jacksonville rather than inside it. St. Johns County, immediately south, grew 22.1%. Clay County, to the southwest, grew 19.5%. Flagler, further down the coast, grew 23.6%. Duval is the anchor of a metro area whose edges are expanding considerably faster than its core, which is the same shape Miami-Dade and Orange County are showing.
| County | H1 2025 | H1 2026 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duval | 11,877 | 12,837 | +8.1% |
| Saint Johns | 3,826 | 4,670 | +22.1% |
| Clay | 1,879 | 2,246 | +19.5% |
| Flagler | 1,363 | 1,685 | +23.6% |
How many businesses register in Jacksonville each day?
The 2025 total of 21,920 works out to about 60 new entities per business day. Like the rest of Florida, the daily rate swings hard by season, peaking in March and April and bottoming out in December. Statewide, March 2026 ran 76% above December 2025. A December reading against an April reading will show a decline that is purely calendar.
About these numbers
Counts come from Florida Division of Corporations filings as republished in the sneyk dataset, current through June 30, 2026. Entity counts are distinct corporations rather than filing rows, because the state's daily files overlap and repeat some records. County assignment uses the ZIP code on the filing's principal address, available for about 99.5% of records.
Formation figures stop at June 30 because Florida publishes new filings on a lag. A week that has just ended typically shows only about a third of the filings it will eventually hold, reaching roughly 99% after two weeks, so recent windows are left out rather than reported early.
City-level totals combine observed spelling variants of Jacksonville, which appear in more than a dozen forms across the filings.
Search Duval County entities, officers, and registered agents at sneyk.com/counties/duval.