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Business dynamics: the annual series for one geography

Establishments, firms, employment, job creation and destruction (total, from openings and closings, from continuers), net job creation, establishment entry and exit, firm deaths, and the matching rates, from the Census Bureau's Business Dynamics Statistics (timeseries/bds), 1978 to the latest published year, nationally or for one state. from defaults to the ten years to the latest; a to past the latest year is clamped with a note; a range wholly past it is an empty answer with a reason. Counts are integers, rates are percent of the Davis-Haltiwanger-Schuh denominator (denom), decoded by the variable's own type.

get/api/v1/census/business/dynamics

Query parameters

geostring

us (national) or state (with state=<postal code>).

us (national) or state (with state=<postal code>).

statestring nullable

State postal code (CA, TX, DC, ...) when geo=state.

State postal code (CA, TX, DC, ...) when geo=state.

fromstring nullable

First year (YYYY, 1978 or later).

First year (YYYY, 1978 or later).

tostring nullable

Last year (YYYY); default: the latest published year.

Last year (YYYY); default: the latest published year.

Response

One row per year, oldest first, every measure decoded.

Example response

{
  "meta": {
    "endpoint": "/api/v1/fred/us/cpi",
    "data_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:00Z",
    "response_time": "2026-04-16T14:30:12Z",
    "provider": "Sugra API v1.0.1",
    "data_age_days": 8.532,
    "source": "sugra_crypto",
    "attribution": "Short interest and Reg SHO daily short volume data is owned by and sourced from FINRA (Financial Industry Regulatory Authority).",
    "fallback_chain": [
      "sugra_crypto",
      "sugra_finance"
    ],
    "period": "2026-Q1",
    "notes": "the UKMTO report behind these counts is dated 2026-08-21 and is 11 days old"
  }
}

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