Remote-work share
Workers 16+ who report working from home; a proxy for remote-work normalization and location-independent workforce depth.
DBA Research · Edition 1.0
U.S. Digital Business Index
A transparent comparison of the 100 largest U.S. metropolitan and micropolitan statistical areas by conditions relevant to digital entrepreneurs and operators.
National ranking
Where digital operators have structural advantages.
The index will populate after the first successful Census refresh.
The live ranking has not been initialized. This is intentional: the repository does not ship fabricated sample scores. Add the Census API secret and run the refresh workflow to generate the current 100-metro ranking.
The DBA score is a composite index, not a direct measure of business success. Source variables are Census estimates; the composite score and rankings are DBA calculations.
Method
Six scored inputs. No black box.
Inputs are converted into percentile scores within the 100-metro comparison set, then weighted into a 0–100 composite.
Entrepreneurship + broadband
Self-employed workers and household broadband subscriptions capture entrepreneurial participation and baseline digital access.
Talent + economics
Bachelor’s attainment, median household income and a rent-to-income affordability proxy round out the score.