Erie County Times

There were 2,395 business licenses issued in Allegheny County in the first quarter of 2022 in Pennsylvania, according to the Pennsylvania Department of State.

This is an 18.4 percent increase over the previous quarter when there were 2,022 licenses issued.

Pennsylvania suffered a surge of unemployment and business closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

The average annual unemployment rate in the state more than doubled in 2020 to 9.1 percent. This was the highest annual unemployment rate in Pennsylvania since 2003.

County	Issued in Q1 2022	Issued in Q4 2021	Percentage change (%)
Adams	149	105	41.9%
Allegheny	2,395	2,022	18.4%
Armstrong	70	56	25%
Beaver	164	151	8.6%
Bedford	35	17	105.9%
Berks	432	336	28.6%
Blair	136	114	19.3%
Bradford	42	37	13.5%
Bucks	1,130	1,025	10.2%
Butler	142	127	11.8%
Cambria	136	95	43.2%
Cameron	7	0	-
Carbon	102	81	25.9%
Centre	230	167	37.7%
Chester	1,012	815	24.2%
Clarion	30	14	114.3%
Clearfield	48	24	100%
Clinton	52	41	26.8%
Columbia	92	71	29.6%
Crawford	98	74	32.4%
Cumberland	568	468	21.4%
Dauphin	735	598	22.9%
Delaware	863	796	8.4%
Elk	27	18	50%
Erie	450	286	57.3%
Fayette	105	87	20.7%
Forest	3	0	-
Franklin	233	176	32.4%
Fulton	15	6	150%
Greene	39	32	21.9%
Hatfield Montgomery	1	0	-
Huntingdon	41	36	13.9%
Indiana	45	35	28.6%
Jefferson	74	48	54.2%
Juniata	34	23	47.8%
Lackawanna	335	290	15.5%
Lancaster	588	482	22%
Lawrence	107	86	24.4%
Lebanon	75	55	36.4%
Lehigh	800	661	21%
Luzerne	357	299	19.4%
Lycoming	142	91	56%
Mckean	13	17	-23.5%
Mercer	100	72	38.9%
Mifflin	63	38	65.8%
Monroe	276	268	3%
Montgomery	1,581	1,366	15.7%
Montour	32	17	88.2%
none Allegheny	1	0	-
Northampton	394	306	28.8%
Northumberland	72	66	9.1%
Perry	49	39	25.6%
Philadelphia	5,179	5,057	2.4%
Pike	41	28	46.4%
Potter	15	10	50%
Schuylkill	173	123	40.7%
Snyder	52	37	40.5%
Somerset	54	30	80%
Sullivan	10	9	11.1%
Susquehanna	35	30	16.7%
Tioga	44	25	76%
Union	58	46	26.1%
Venango	30	22	36.4%
Warren	11	7	57.1%
Washington	232	179	29.6%
Wayne	75	63	19%
Westmoreland	486	331	46.8%
Wyoming	16	13	23.1%
York	695	539	28.9%