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How many businesses are in Querétaro? The measured census
131,067 businesses, detected and verified continuously — not registered once and forgotten. This is what a living census of a Mexican city looks like: the numbers, the commercial gaps, and the open data to audit all of it.
Updated September 1, 2026 · BlackPrint Team
131,067businesses, measured — with open CC-BY data
The essentials, in 20 seconds
- 131,067 verified businesses in the municipality of Querétaro — 1 in 10 is a restaurant
- Commercial gaps measured on a 250 m grid: one cell holds 515 businesses with no pharmacy, café or bakery
- The data is open (CC-BY) and explorable free in the interactive Commercial Explorer
01 · The number CONTINUOUS DETECTION · VERIFIED
131,067 businesses — measured, not registered.
Every point is a real business, detected and verified continuously in the municipality of Querétaro, one of Mexico's fastest-growing cities.
131,067verified businesses in the municipality · 2026
What the measured city is made of
| Category (examples) | Businesses | The finding |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 13,328 | 1 in 10 businesses; median distance to nearest competitor: 15 m |
| Beauty salons | 6,731 | One of the densest categories in the city |
| Dental clinics | 2,561 | Dense private-health tissue |
| Bakeries & pastry shops | 1,474 | Distributed like infrastructure: 0.89–1.35 per 100 businesses in every borough |
| Pharmacies | 1,211 | The most evenly spread category — which makes its gaps real coverage failures |
| Veterinary & pet shops | 780 | The only category where downtown ranks last in density: it follows homes, not commerce |
▲ READINGHalf of the city's commerce fits in 26 km² — 10% of the occupied cells in a 250-meter grid. For any traffic-dependent business, the question is not which city, but which of those cells — and at what rent.
02 · The gaps 250 M GRID
Where 150+ businesses cluster and a whole category is missing.
A commercial gap: a 250-meter cell with 150 or more businesses of any kind and zero of a given category. Measured for 8 categories.
515businesses in one cell — with no pharmacy, no bakery, no café
What the gap map shows, category by category
| Category | Gaps (150+ cells) | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Restaurants | 1 | The category without gaps: you win by picking a cluster, not by fleeing competition |
| Pharmacies | ~37 | Evenly-spread category → its gaps are true coverage failures |
| Veterinary | 54 | The most gaps — but the biggest one is a trap: pets live in homes, not in commercial corridors |
▲ READINGOne cell in the Josefa Vergara borough concentrates 515 businesses and lacks a pharmacy, a café and a bakery at once. When the same corner tops the gap list of three daily-traffic categories, what's missing there is not a store — it's a developer who sees the whole corner. Explore all of it yourself, free: the Querétaro Commercial Explorer.
03 · Open data CC-BY · DOWNLOADABLE
The data is published. Audit it before believing it.
Aggregated counts, distances and gaps are downloadable — the same standard we demand from any vendor, applied to ourselves.
CC-BYthe license: use it, cite the source
What you can download today
| Dataset | Contents |
|---|---|
| Querétaro radiography (CSV) | 40 aggregated indicators of the measured city |
| Per-category datasets (8 CSVs) | Counts per borough, competitor-distance distribution, and every 150+ gap cell with coordinates |
| Coverage Index — November 24, 2026 | Official registry vs real territory, frozen methodology, downloadable data |
▲ READINGThe same continuous-detection census exists for any city in Mexico — the platform answers in seconds, for any area, comparing multiple locations at once. Write to support@blackprint.ai, or start with how to compare vendors.
Frequently asked questions
How many businesses are there in Querétaro, Mexico?
BlackPrint's continuous detection finds and verifies 131,067 businesses operating in the municipality of Querétaro (2026). One in ten is a restaurant (13,328); pharmacies number 1,211; beauty salons 6,731. The data is published openly: aggregated counts by borough and category are downloadable as CSV under a CC-BY license.
How is this census different from Mexico's official DENUE registry?
Mexico's DENUE (INEGI) is an excellent public registry updated twice a year. A continuous detection census is measured permanently: businesses that opened yesterday appear, and businesses that closed stop appearing. For location decisions — where competition actually is today — the freshness of the census changes the verdict. BlackPrint publishes its Coverage Index in November 2026: the first public measurement of how well the official registry matches the real territory, with frozen methodology and downloadable data.
Can I explore the Querétaro business census myself?
Yes, free and without registration: the Querétaro Commercial Explorer at blackprint.ai/guias/explorador-comercial-queretaro shows all 131,067 businesses on an interactive map, category by category — including commercial gaps: 250-meter cells with 150+ businesses and zero locations of a given category.
Sobre tu territorio
Este análisis es del municipio. El tuyo es de tu esquina.
Si tienes una decisión enfrente —dónde abrir, a quién rentarle, contra cuánta competencia llegas— la medimos con los datos de tu zona exacta, no con promedios municipales.