Metro Atlanta No. 1 Spot for Minority-Owned Businesses

Metro Atlanta, besides being a great place to live (at least most parts of the city), it leads the nation as the No. 1 spot for minority-owned businesses on a per capita basis, according to the results of a survey of 52 metro areas. According to the AJC, in February, the U.S. Census Bureau released figures that showed black-owned businesses in metro Atlanta grew 99 percent between 2002 and 2007.

“The ‘capital of black America’ has become a buzzing hive of Hispanic and Asian immigrants and entrepreneurs,” Forbes writes.

Baltimore, Nashville, Houston and Miami-Ft. Lauderdale round out the top five spots. The next five are the metro areas of Oklahoma City, Riverside-San Bernadino, Washington, D.C., Orlando and Phoenix.

Forbes looked at metro areas with populations of more than 1 million. It said metro Atlanta was No. 2 in self-employed minorities and No. 2 as an entrepreneurial region. Combined with a growing population, increasing household incomes and affordable housing, Atlanta took first place, Forbes said. Source

What's great is that the city is still growing due to urban sprawl. You can look around and see a service that is needed. So, if you don't want to be bogged down