Top States for Business in America 2025: The full rankings

In 2025, to list the best states of America, the CNBC scored all of the 50 states in 135 metric in 10 broad competition categories. The foundations of the study are now as always in the 19th year, the factors of companies in the efforts of companies to process work every year when making site selection decisions. Each category is weighted as the frequent sales point of states in economic development marketing materials.

In 2025, as new, we added metrics to measure the risks of states caused by a trade war and a shrinking federal budget. We have developed some of our infrastructure metrics to determine how states provide power and data demands. We have developed our criteria and metrics by consulting with various business and policy experts and states. Our study is not an idea survey. We use data from various sources to measure the performance of states. Under our methodology, states can earn a maximum of 2,500 points. The most points of the states are the best states in America.