Maps of the small business market in Saxony: where businesses open and close, which industries are growing, what role foreigners play, where the risk is higher and how much tax you will pay in each city. Official statistics only, explained in plain words.
The bigger the tile, the more business registrations there.
You pick a question above the map. Green – “yes, better”, red – “no, worse”, grey – about average.
Every tile opens a card with figures and a takeaway in plain words.
Like a population, businesses are born and die. The monitor shows the heartbeat of the whole state, and the carpet below it shows where it beats stronger and where it is weakening.
The rhythm is real, just sped up 1,000 times: in 2025, a new business was founded in Saxony on average every 22 minutes, and one closed every 25 minutes. That is why the upper line beats faster. “Today” is an estimate based on this pace, not a live counter. Latest signal: so far Saxony publishes its 2026 registration data only as Excel files. Insolvencies: in the first half of 2026 there were 494 corporate insolvency filings, 2.3% more than a year earlier (StaLa Sachsen).
Every half-year is a tremor on the tape. The higher the amplitude, the more businesses filed for insolvency. In 2025, Saxony had 975 corporate insolvencies, 12.5% more than in 2024. This is the highest level since 2016.
StaLa Sachsen does not publish insolvency rates per 10,000 businesses by industry, so this shows the number of filings: large industries have more of them simply because they have more businesses. Construction is red on map 01 as well: more businesses close there than open. Two independent signals agree.
In 2025, a fifth of new sole proprietorships in Saxony were founded by people without German citizenship – 21.3%. If you are starting a business in Germany as a foreigner, you are in good company.
StaLa Sachsen gives no figures for individual countries in its open reports.
Dashed line – Germany overall, 25.2%. The states publish the share differently: some relative to all sole-proprietorship registrations, some only to new start-ups. Several states have not published the share for 2025.
Which taxes on profit you will pay – as a freelancer, a sole proprietor (Gewerbe) or a UG/GmbH – and how much of that is trade tax (Gewerbesteuer) in each city. Choose a legal form, enter your profit, and the receipt recalculates.
The credit cannot exceed your income tax: with a small income it is smaller. A UG or GmbH gets neither the 24,500 € allowance nor the credit. This is a demo calculation, not tax advice: it does not take into account your tax class and family status, other income, expenses, church tax, additions to the base (Hinzurechnungen), prepayments and much more that depends on the specific business.
Ecologists call this carrying capacity: how many members of one species a territory can feed. Here the species is a café, a barbershop or a bakery, and the territory is a city.
The atlas figures come from the statistical offices of Germany and its states, the chambers of commerce and the Federal Employment Agency. Before each update we check the totals: if the city figures do not add up to the state total, the map is not updated.
The tables are downloaded on a schedule, right after the office has published them.
The sum of the cities and districts must equal the state total, and so must the sum of the industries. Any discrepancy stops the update.
The maps are updated after the offices publish new data. The date of the last update is shown at the top of the page.
Love Act Grow asks about your activity and address in your language, works out whether you need to register a trade (Gewerbe) or only notify the tax office, and prepares the documents in German. You register where you actually run your business – the service takes your city into account.
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