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# New NYC Business Licenses (DCWP) by Category & Borough: 2026 statistics from 1,218 public records

**The most common category is Home Improvement Contractor: 294 of 1,218 records (24.1%) (as of 2026-11-03; source: NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued licenses (NYC Open Data)).**

Data as of 2026-11-03 · Compiled by Zalwin from NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued licenses (NYC Open Data) Copy citation

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## Key findings

- Zalwin's NycBusinessLicensePulse dataset holds 1,218 NycBusinessLicensePulse records dated 2026-06-01 to 2026-08-19 (as of 2026-11-03; source: NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued licenses (NYC Open Data)). [#](#finding-1)
- The most common category is Home Improvement Contractor: 294 of 1,218 records (24.1%) (as of 2026-11-03; source: NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued licenses (NYC Open Data)). [#](#finding-2)

## NycBusinessLicensePulse records by category

| Group | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Home Improvement Contractor | 294 | 24.1% |
| Self-Storage Facility | 163 | 13.4% |
| Secondhand Dealer - General | 136 | 11.2% |
| Tobacco Retail Dealer | 106 | 8.7% |
| Dealer In Products For The Disabled | 105 | 8.6% |
| Electronics Store | 99 | 8.1% |
| Stoop Line Stand | 87 | 7.1% |
| Electronic & Home Appliance Service Dealer | 54 | 4.4% |
| Garage & Parking Lot | 44 | 3.6% |
| Electronic Cigarette Dealer | 39 | 3.2% |
| Debt Collection Agency | 31 | 2.5% |
| Hotel | 13 | 1.1% |
| Secondhand Dealer - Auto | 7 | 0.6% |
| Pawnbroker | 6 | 0.5% |
| Employment Agency | 6 | 0.5% |

## Methodology and data provenance

- Sample: 1,218 public records dated 2026-06-01 to 2026-08-19; illustrative samples excluded.

- Source: NYC Department of Consumer and Worker Protection issued licenses (NYC Open Data). Refreshed automatically about every 24 hours; figures above are as of 2026-11-03.

- Shares are of all records in the dataset; totals and medians use only records with a stated amount.

- Organization-level data only. Informational; verify individual records at the official source.

### Cite this study

Zalwin Research, "NycBusinessLicensePulse statistics" (data as of 2026-11-03), https://zalwin.com/research/nycbusinesslicensepulse

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