Company Register 10% open

What data is expected?

List of registered (limited liability) companies. The submissions in this data category does not need to include detailed financial data such as balance sheet etc. To satisfy this category, the following minimum criteria must be met:

• Name of company
• Unique identifier of the company
• Company address
• Updated at least once a month

What data is available

•   Openly licensed? Unsure (No URL given)
•   Is the data available for free? Unsure
•   Is the data machine readable? Unsure (n/a)
•   Available in bulk? Unsure
•   Is the data provided on a timely and up to date basis? Unsure
•   Publicly available? Unsure(as Unavailable published by Individual States)
•   Is data in digital form? Yes
•   Is the data available online? Unsure (No URL given)
•   Does the data exist? Yes

Details

In the US, corporate registration happens at the state level. The timeliness, availability, and licensing of this data varies among all 50 states. There is no federal dataset that contains all corporate registrations. It would be possible to create a unified open registry for all US corporations (even if only via aggregation from state ones) but this does not exist at this time.

Across those states performance varies widely and in many cases data is not available in bulk, is not machine readable, is not openly licensed etc. For more detail, see the per state summary on Open Corporates.

Reviewer comments

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