Wyoming applications do not tell you when your EIN will arrive.

Wyoming: a labeled case, not your inferred location

Wyoming is an explicit example. The series’ geography is assigned in Census administrative data; it is not a count of Wyoming LLC formation certificates. A registered-agent address or our operator’s address does not establish your principal business location. We do not infer a county, owner residence or nationality from either address or from the language you read.

Interpretation: 8,044 is an application count within the BA universe. It has no population denominator. A larger monthly count does not establish a longer or shorter IRS queue, and the year-on-year change does not forecast a particular applicant’s result.

One period and one adjustment across U.S. regions

Every row below uses September 2026, BA_BA, total all NAICS, not seasonally adjusted (NSA). The comparison month is September 2025 from the same October 14 release. Using the same month reduces seasonal mismatch; these figures remain unadjusted and do not isolate causes.

Scroll the table horizontally on a narrow screen. Counts are whole applications; percentages are calculated here and rounded only for display.

The U.S. total covers the 50 states and District of Columbia. Puerto Rico and Island Areas are excluded from these national and regional totals. The four regions sum to the U.S. count. Wyoming is already part of West; do not add it again.

Denominators: year-on-year change = (this geography’s Sep 2026 BA ÷ its Sep 2025 BA − 1) × 100. U.S. share = this geography’s Sep 2026 BA ÷ 582,530 U.S. Sep 2026 BA × 100. Neither is a success rate, a per-capita business-creation rate or a share of all IRS EIN applications.

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Where is the foreign owner in these statistics?

A U.S.-organized LLC and its owner’s country of residence are different geographic facts. BFS excludes applications outside its covered territories and applications without qualifying state-county geocodes. Its U.S. geography is not a foreign-owner residence breakdown, so it cannot establish how many owners in your country applied or received an EIN.

Two international IRS sources were checked on November 4:

• Foreign-controlled domestic corporation statistics describe a corporate-return universe, not the population of foreign-owned U.S. disregarded LLCs.
• Published Form 5472 transaction tables cover corporations with total receipts of US$500 million or more. The published 2021 line-item estimates, Publication 5314 do not publish a usable foreign-owned U.S. disregarded-entity checkbox count (marked “d”). That mark cannot be converted to zero or an LLC total. These sources do not supply the country comparison needed here.

Practical consequence: do not choose an EIN route, budget for an approval deadline or conclude that you need a second EIN from an owner-country ranking. Use the entity’s facts and the current IRS instructions. Your country of residence and the place from which you send a document must be established from your actual records. World business-registration indicators would measure another event and are not substituted for EIN statistics here.

A short check before acting on a volume claim

1. Ask what the number counts. Record the series, geography, observation month, release date and adjustment. “Wyoming EIN approvals” is not a valid label for the BA count above.
2. Check the proposed decision. These data cannot establish the LLC’s need for an EIN, its proper SS-4 route or its expected IRS response date. Ask for evidence about that exact question.
3. Keep your records distinct. Establish any prior EIN, the real application purpose, actual addresses and sending location. Preserve submission evidence rather than filing again because of a trend.

Download a blank claim-review record (TXT). Complete it privately; this page has no field for submitting your facts.

Sources, exclusions and updates

Source and release

U.S. Census Bureau, Business Formation Statistics; Time Series / Trend Charts; release October 14, 2026. Official file timestamp: October 14, 2026, 09:02:33 EDT. Retrieved November 4, 2026.

Series and unit

BA_BA, category TOTAL, NSA. Whole applications in the filtered BA universe. The 13-month extract covers September 2025–September 2026 for Wyoming, the U.S. and four Census regions.

What BA excludes

Tax liens, estates, trusts, certain financial filings, applications without qualifying state-county geocodes or outside covered territories, certain agriculture/public-administration applications and certain other industries. See the complete Census methodology. BA is not all EIN applications.

Uncertainty

Administrative statistics are not subject to sampling error, but can have non-sampling error and revisions. This is a dated snapshot. BF duration measures time to employer formation/first payroll liability, not EIN processing time; that series is not used here.

Reproduce

Official full-release ZIP; the downloadable JSON records the pinned ZIP and source-CSV SHA-256 hashes. Upstream downloads can later change. Counts are stored without changing precision.

Update policy

Review after each monthly Census release using its release schedule. Replace all comparison rows from the same vintage, check revisions and update observation/review dates together. This page does not refresh automatically. Recheck international coverage when IRS publishes a new applicable study; keep it unknown until its universe fits.

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