BUSINESS CHURN

  + 3,400
Despite the recent economic downturn, roughly 3,400 businesses either opened or moved into Solano County, while 1,000 establishments either closed or moved out of the county between January 2008 and 2009.
 
     
  - 5%
The first decline since 2002, the number of nonemployer firms in Solano County dropped 5 percent from 2007 to 2008.
     
  What does this mean?
The industries of Manufacturing and Health Care & Social Assistance reported the strongest growth in nonemployer firms in the most recent reported year.