2025 trends: Here are the best industries and cities for US small businesses After a few years of volatility, 2025 proved to be a rebound year for small businesses. To dig deeper into this year’s boom, Bluevine combined data from more than 210,000 active business checking accounts with a proprietary survey of 1,067 U.S. small business owners to find the industries and cities that thrived the most. Here’s what stood out.