Covered market #95

Businesses for sale in Boise, ID

9,428 business establishments operate in Boise, and 4,040 of them employ between 5 and 99 people — the range most often bought and sold by individual owners. Professional and technical services leads the local mix with 1,371 firms.

Local market

What the Boise business base looks like

Business establishments9,428

Every physical location with paid employees in Boise ZIP codes.

Employing 5 to 99 people4,040

Large enough to run without the owner on site, small enough for an individual buyer. This is where most transactions happen.

Share of the local base43%

The rest are mostly owner-only businesses, which rarely change hands as going concerns.

Largest industries in Boise

  • Professional & technical services1,371
  • Healthcare & social assistance1,210
  • Construction & trades1,015
  • Retail930
  • Real estate & leasing747

These five account for 56% of establishments in Boise. A buyer's odds are best where the local base is deepest, and a seller competes with everyone else in the same column.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, ZIP Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the ZIP codes the Postal Service assigns to Boise, which approximates but does not exactly match the city limits. Establishment counts are locations with paid employees; sole proprietors without employees are not included. Latest available year: 2023.

Buying, selling, combining

No single industry carries Boise.

The five largest categories split 5,273 businesses between them fairly evenly, with professional and technical services only 1.1× the size of healthcare and social assistance. Demand is spread rather than concentrated.

Buy in Boise

4,040 businesses here employ 5 to 99 people. That is enough to be selective without waiting months between candidates — worth watching professional and technical services and healthcare and social assistance in particular.

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Sell in Boise

With no dominant industry in Boise, buyers arrive with broader criteria and fewer direct comparisons. A clearly presented business stands out sooner than it would in a concentrated market.

Start an owner listing

Combine several into one

Acquirers looking for scale in Boise often cannot buy it in one piece. 1,371 professional and technical services firms is the kind of depth that lets several be combined into one company big enough for a buyer that would not look at any of them alone.

How combinations work

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