Michigan Entrepreneurship Score Card
2024 Score Card
Key takeaways from this year’s report include:
- In the last 20 years, Michigan gained, then lost, a leadership position in net new jobs from business expansions. Between 2011-2019, Michigan job growth skyrocketed, becoming one of the best performing states in this area. Since the 2020 Recession, Michigan continues to track downward toward the lowest performing state.
- The per capita income gap between Michigan and the rest of the nation has gotten worse in the last 20 years.
- Michigan saw impressive gains in small business growth and vitality between 2012 and 2018, but that progress has faded since the pandemic.
- New business formations continue to drive job growth and diversify Michigan’s economy.
- Since the mid 2010’s, Michigan’s small business survival rate has improved and moved closer to Massachusetts, the best performing state.
- In the last 20 years, Michigan’s labor force participation has continued to decline, a trend that will likely persist and worsen in the coming decades.
- Read more details in our press release