# Find a financial advisor. Then read what they filed. > Search 43,887 financial advisors by name, city, or state. Compare how they're paid, who regulates them, and how much they manage. AdvisorCensus lists the investment advisory firms in the United States that file Form ADV with the SEC or a state securities regulator: 43,887 firms in 367 metro areas and 54 states and territories, as of the November 2026 filing period. Rebuilt monthly. HTML page: https://advisorcensus.com/ Every state and metro page linked below, and every firm page, also has a Markdown version: add .md to its address, or ask for text/markdown. ## How to use it 1. Search a place or a firm: https://advisorcensus.com/search?q={query}, where the query is a firm name, city, state, ZIP code, or CRD number. A city or state opens every firm there, alphabetically. A firm name or CRD number opens its filing. 2. Filter by what matters: how the firm is paid, SEC or state registration, assets managed, years registered. Every filter comes from the filing. 3. Read the filing, not the pitch: compensation, clients, disclosures, and the link to the SEC record. No scores and no paid placement. ## Largest metro areas - [New York, NY](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ny/new-york): 3,971 firms - [San Francisco, CA](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ca/san-francisco): 1,783 firms - [Los Angeles, CA](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ca/los-angeles): 1,679 firms - [Boston, MA](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ma/boston): 1,180 firms - [Miami, FL](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/fl/miami): 1,134 firms - [Dallas, TX](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/tx/dallas): 1,085 firms - [Chicago, IL](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/il/chicago): 1,076 firms - [Philadelphia, PA](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/pa/philadelphia): 715 firms - [Denver, CO](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/co/denver): 702 firms - [Washington, DC](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/dc/washington): 684 firms - [Houston, TX](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/tx/houston): 668 firms - [Bridgeport, CT](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ct/bridgeport): 632 firms Every state and metro area, with its page: https://advisorcensus.com/llms-full.txt ## Browse by state - [Alabama](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/al): 203 firms - [Alaska](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ak): 29 firms - [Arizona](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/az): 676 firms - [Arkansas](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ar): 134 firms - [California](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ca): 5,897 firms - [Colorado](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/co): 1,202 firms - [Connecticut](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ct): 958 firms - [Delaware](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/de): 133 firms - [District of Columbia](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/dc): 140 firms - [Florida](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/fl): 2,525 firms - [Georgia](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ga): 858 firms - [Guam](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/gu): 1 firm - [Hawaii](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/hi): 64 firms - [Idaho](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/id): 166 firms - [Illinois](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/il): 1,381 firms - [Indiana](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/in): 421 firms - [Iowa](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ia): 189 firms - [Kansas](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ks): 276 firms - [Kentucky](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ky): 168 firms - [Louisiana](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/la): 209 firms - [Maine](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/me): 91 firms - [Maryland](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/md): 584 firms - [Massachusetts](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ma): 1,422 firms - [Michigan](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/mi): 785 firms - [Minnesota](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/mn): 521 firms - [Mississippi](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ms): 58 firms - [Missouri](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/mo): 429 firms - [Montana](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/mt): 88 firms - [Nebraska](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ne): 147 firms - [Nevada](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/nv): 292 firms - [New Hampshire](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/nh): 212 firms - [New Jersey](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/nj): 922 firms - [New Mexico](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/nm): 83 firms - [New York](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ny): 4,038 firms - [North Carolina](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/nc): 704 firms - [North Dakota](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/nd): 35 firms - [Ohio](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/oh): 959 firms - [Oklahoma](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ok): 213 firms - [Oregon](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/or): 374 firms - [Pennsylvania](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/pa): 1,217 firms - [Puerto Rico](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/pr): 190 firms - [Rhode Island](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ri): 91 firms - [South Carolina](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/sc): 302 firms - [South Dakota](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/sd): 52 firms - [Tennessee](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/tn): 476 firms - [Texas](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/tx): 3,074 firms - [U.S. Virgin Islands](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/vi): 9 firms - [Utah](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/ut): 400 firms - [Vermont](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/vt): 74 firms - [Virginia](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/va): 791 firms - [Washington](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/wa): 780 firms - [West Virginia](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/wv): 37 firms - [Wisconsin](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/wi): 417 firms - [Wyoming](https://advisorcensus.com/advisors/wy): 106 firms ## Before you choose - [Fee-only, fee-based, and commissions: what Form ADV Item 5.E tells you](https://advisorcensus.com/guides/fee-only-vs-fee-based): How advisory firms are paid, how to read the compensation arrangements on a firm's filing, and what each arrangement means for the advice you get. - [How to verify a financial advisor in ten minutes](https://advisorcensus.com/guides/how-to-verify-a-financial-advisor): Checking registration, disclosures, and the firm behind an individual adviser with public records: IAPD, BrokerCheck, and state regulators. - [Questions to ask a financial advisor, keyed to their filing](https://advisorcensus.com/guides/questions-to-ask-a-financial-advisor): Twelve questions, each tied to something the firm already filed so you can compare the answer with the record. - [All guides](https://advisorcensus.com/guides) ## What a firm page shows Registration type and status, year registered, regulatory assets under management, compensation arrangements, advisory activities, client types, employees, states registered, whether the firm reports disciplinary disclosures, filed websites, and the link to its SEC record. Firms that claim their page can add a description, services, credentials, and links, clearly marked as provided by the firm. ## What AdvisorCensus does not do No ratings, reviews, rankings, or "top" lists, and no lead forms. Firms appear alphabetically unless you choose another order, and no firm's position depends on payment. The site describes filings; choosing an advisor is yours. ## Where the data comes from The SEC's monthly Investment Adviser Information Reports, the IAPD feeds for state-registered advisers, the SEC's Form ADV filing data, and Part 2A brochures. Rebuilt every month. Methodology: https://advisorcensus.com/methodology. Downloads: https://advisorcensus.com/data. Reports: https://advisorcensus.com/reports. ## Machine access - [llms.txt](https://advisorcensus.com/llms.txt): the site's page types, list filters, and data files - [OpenAPI description](https://advisorcensus.com/openapi.json): the JSON endpoints, listed in the API catalog at https://advisorcensus.com/.well-known/api-catalog - [Data and downloads](https://advisorcensus.com/data): CSV files, the JSON and Markdown versions of every page, and the CC BY 4.0 licence Cite as: AdvisorCensus, a directory of investment advisory firms in the United States generated from Form ADV filings, part of AdvisorSEO Max, operated by BH Monitor Services, LLC.