September 27, 2004 10:32 AM

Women-owned businesses by the numbers
Posted by Diane Danielsonat 10:32 AM

The Center for Women's Business Research just released their 2004 rankings for women-owned business which pretty much confirm earlier findings that the Top 10 Fastest Growing Metropolitan areas for women-owned firms are South of the Mason Dixon line and West of the Mississippi.

The Rankings:

1. Salt Lake City-Ogden, UT


2. Phoenix-Mesa, AZ


3. Las Vegas, NV-AZ


4. Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill, NC


5. Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock hill, NC


6. Greensboro-Winston-Salem-High Point, NC


7. Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA


8. Nashville, TN


9. Denver, CO


10. Miami, FL, and St. Louis, MO-IL (tied)

So where does good old Boston fit into this list? Try 45th! But at least we beat out Washington, DC (46), Bergen-Passaic, NJ (47), Pittsburgh, PA (48), Philadelphia, PA (49) and Newark, NJ (also 49th). The rest of the bottom ten were areas in and around NYC.
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