HUBZone Checker

What is a HUBZone?

A HUBZone — Historically Underutilized Business Zone — is an area the SBA designates to steer federal contracting dollars into communities that need investment. Certified HUBZone small businesses get set-aside competitions reserved for them, plus a 10% price-evaluation preference in full-and-open bids. To qualify, your business has to meet four requirements:

Be a small business

Your firm must be small under the SBA size standard for your primary NAICS code. HUBZone is a small-business program — large firms are not eligible.

51% US-citizen owned and controlled

At least 51% of the business must be unconditionally owned and controlled by US citizens — or by a qualifying entity such as an Indian tribe / ANC, a Community Development Corporation, or an agricultural cooperative.

Principal office in a HUBZone

Your principal office — where most of your employees work — must sit inside a Historically Underutilized Business Zone. Whether an address is in a HUBZone is determined solely by the official SBA map, and boundaries change over time.

35% of employees live in a HUBZone

At least 35% of your employees must reside in a HUBZone, measured by each employee's home address against the official SBA map.

One thing this tool deliberately does not do: decide whether your address is in a HUBZone. That geographic determination is made only by the official SBA HUBZone map. This checker handles the eligibility questions, then hands you off to that map to confirm your exact location.