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Company Formations in 2015: Buckinghamshire

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???? Businesses formed in Buckinghamshire during 2015

5.6% more companies in Buckinghamshire compared to 2014

New businesses in Buckinghamshire mapped

Aylesbury Vale 1,438 formed

Chiltern 970 formed

Milton Keynes 3,097 formed

South Bucks 1,081 formed

Wycombe 1,663 formed

Companies formed in 2015 league table

The counties in England where most companies are formed, and how Buckinghamshire compares.

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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2014: 1st
London
198,282
2nd 2014: 2nd
Greater Manchester
28,265
3rd 2014: 3rd
West Midlands
26,952
4th 2014: 4th
West Yorkshire
17,066
5th 2014: 5th
Essex
16,147
16th 2014: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,249
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2014: 1st
London
198,282
6th 2014: 7th
Hertfordshire
14,575
14th 2014: 13th
Berkshire
9,135
16th 2014: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,249
23rd 2014: 23rd
Northamptonshire
6,347
24th 2014: 26th
Bedfordshire
6,245
33rd 2014: 33rd
Oxfordshire
4,611
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2014: 1st
London
198,282
2nd 2014: 2nd
Greater Manchester
28,265
3rd 2014: 3rd
West Midlands
26,952
4th 2014: 4th
West Yorkshire
17,066
5th 2014: 5th
Essex
16,147
6th 2014: 7th
Hertfordshire
14,575
7th 2014: 8th
Kent
14,246
8th 2014: 6th
Hampshire
13,779
9th 2014: 9th
Surrey
12,014
10th 2014: 10th
Cheshire
11,974
11th 2014: 11th
Lancashire
10,080
12th 2014: 12th
Merseyside
9,857
13th 2014: 15th
South Yorkshire
9,290
14th 2014: 13th
Berkshire
9,135
15th 2014: 14th
East Sussex
8,786
16th 2014: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,249
17th 2014: 20th
Dorset
7,791
18th 2014: 18th
Leicestershire
7,712
19th 2014: 25th
Derbyshire
7,414
20th 2014: 17th
Nottinghamshire
6,908
21st 2014: 19th
North Yorkshire
6,437
22nd 2014: 24th
Staffordshire
6,375
23rd 2014: 23rd
Northamptonshire
6,347
24th 2014: 26th
Bedfordshire
6,245
25th 2014: 27th
Cambridgeshire
6,235
26th 2014: 21st
West Sussex
6,136
27th 2014: 28th
Tyne and Wear
6,042
28th 2014: 22nd
Lincolnshire
5,879
29th 2014: 29th
Gloucestershire
5,741
30th 2014: 30th
Devon
5,394
31st 2014: 31st
Somerset
5,383
32nd 2014: 32nd
Bristol
4,942
33rd 2014: 33rd
Oxfordshire
4,611
34th 2014: 35th
Wiltshire
4,506
35th 2014: 34th
Warwickshire
4,424
36th 2014: 36th
Norfolk
4,296
37th 2014: 38th
Suffolk
4,031
38th 2014: 37th
Durham
3,834
39th 2014: 39th
Worcestershire
3,572
40th 2014: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
2,967
41st 2014: 42nd
Shropshire
2,416
42nd 2014: 41st
Cornwall
2,392
43rd 2014: 43rd
Cumbria
2,166
44th 2014: 44th
Northumberland
1,289
45th 2014: 45th
Herefordshire
950
46th 2014: 46th
Isle of Wight
560
47th 2014: 47th
Rutland
194

New incorporations in 2015 per 1000 Man standing people

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In Buckinghamshire

10.9

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9.7

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Type of companies formed in Buckinghamshire breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (8,000 companies)

3% Other company types (249 companies)

Other company types breakdown (249 companies)

Total companies in Buckinghamshire by the end of 2015

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Businesses formed in Buckinghamshire during 2015

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Businesses dissolved in Buckinghamshire during 2015

meaning there is a total of

59,305

businesses registered in Buckinghamshire at the end of 2015.

5.6% more companies in Buckinghamshire compared to 2014

Surrounding counties 2015 breakdown & comparison

Hertfordshire

96,909 total businesses
14,575 formed in 2015
8,688 dissolved in 2015

Northamptonshire

39,638 total businesses
6,347 formed in 2015
3,341 dissolved in 2015

Oxfordshire

37,534 total businesses
4,611 formed in 2015
2,781 dissolved in 2015

London

1,017,154 total businesses
198,282 formed in 2015
119,720 dissolved in 2015

Bedfordshire

34,911 total businesses
6,245 formed in 2015
3,593 dissolved in 2015

Berkshire

63,186 total businesses
9,135 formed in 2015
6,380 dissolved in 2015

Buckinghamshire

59,305 total businesses
8,249 formed in 2015
5,489 dissolved in 2015

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville
50
54
4
Bedgrove
16
27
11
Buckingham North
61
100
39
Buckingham South
33
52
19
Central & Walton
68
108
40
Coldharbour
26
43
17
Edlesborough
14
37
23
Elmhurst
17
44
27
Gatehouse
101
154
53
Great Brickhill & Newton Longville
43
47
4
Great Horwood
15
35
20
Grendon Underwood & Brill
37
51
14
Haddenham & Stone
40
66
26
Long Crendon
10
21
11
Luffield Abbey
5
17
12
Mandeville & Elm Farm
17
54
37
Marsh Gibbon
16
18
2
Oakfield & Bierton
23
37
14
Oakley
24
16
-8
Pitstone & Cheddington
23
47
24
Quainton
9
12
3
Riverside
27
72
45
Southcourt
9
36
27
Steeple Claydon
12
14
2
Stewkley
13
11
-2
Tingewick
33
21
-12
Waddesdon
14
29
15
Walton Court & Hawkslade
9
25
16
Watermead
22
15
-7
Wendover & Halton
36
65
29
Wing
11
22
11
Wingrave
38
57
19
Winslow
77
31
-46
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Amersham Common
20
26
6
Amersham Town
33
44
11
Amersham-on-the-Hill
44
107
63
Asheridge Vale and Lowndes
15
30
15
Ashley Green Latimer and Chenies
10
22
12
Austenwood
12
25
13
Ballinger South Heath and Chartridge
16
29
13
Central
52
73
21
Chalfont Common
21
49
28
Chalfont St Giles
47
51
4
Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill
42
32
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Cholesbury The Lee and Bellingdon
10
15
5
Chorleywood North & Sarratt
1
1
Gold Hill
9
13
4
Great Missenden
18
26
8
Hilltop and Townsend
40
61
21
Holmer Green
23
33
10
Little Chalfont
42
57
15
Little Missenden
3
11
8
Newtown
27
19
-8
Penn and Coleshill
24
48
24
Prestwood and Heath End
32
35
3
Ridgeway
7
12
5
Seer Green
8
20
12
St Mary's and Waterside
87
121
34
Vale
9
10
1
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bletchley East
228
258
30
Bletchley Park
106
124
18
Bletchley West
53
77
24
Bradwell
82
148
66
Broughton
115
194
79
Campbell Park & Old Woughton
75
110
35
Central Milton Keynes
408
417
9
Danesborough & Walton
95
152
57
Loughton & Shenley
114
199
85
Monkston
76
133
57
Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope
59
98
39
Newport Pagnell South
107
138
31
Olney
70
109
39
Shenley Brook End
66
155
89
Stantonbury
119
150
31
Stony Stratford
84
142
58
Tattenhoe
60
138
78
Wolverton
106
213
107
Woughton & Fishermead
122
142
20
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Beaconsfield North
48
65
17
Beaconsfield South
78
147
69
Beaconsfield West
24
60
36
Burnham Church & Beeches
94
172
78
Burnham Lent Rise & Taplow
46
96
50
Denham
60
81
21
Farnham & Hedgerley
44
56
12
Gerrards Cross
97
188
91
Iver Heath
30
51
21
Iver Village & Richings Park
64
90
26
Stoke Poges
31
48
17
Wexham & Fulmer
20
27
7
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Abbey
142
243
101
Bledlow and Bradenham
9
16
7
Booker and Cressex
13
31
18
Bourne End-cum-Hedsor
51
65
14
Bowerdean
33
47
14
Chiltern Rise
32
31
-1
Disraeli
40
69
29
Downley and Plomer Hill
15
24
9
Flackwell Heath and Little Marlow
28
46
18
Greater Hughenden
26
50
24
Greater Marlow
48
46
-2
Hambleden Valley
14
14
0
Hazlemere North
21
12
-9
Hazlemere South
35
58
23
Icknield
15
22
7
Lacey Green Speen and the Hampdens
10
9
-1
Marlow North and West
68
113
45
Marlow South East
125
78
-47
Micklefield
14
32
18
Oakridge and Castlefield
68
120
52
Ryemead
34
74
40
Sands
29
58
29
Stokenchurch and Radnage
18
35
17
Terriers and Amersham Hill
48
105
57
The Risboroughs
50
87
37
The Wooburns
28
47
19
Totteridge
21
30
9
Tylers Green and Loudwater
72
101
29

Total companies 2015 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2015 and how Buckinghamshire compares to them.

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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2014: 1st
London
1,017,154
2nd 2014: 2nd
Greater Manchester
156,025
3rd 2014: 3rd
West Midlands
147,044
4th 2014: 4th
Essex
107,891
5th 2014: 5th
West Yorkshire
102,450
14th 2014: 14th
Buckinghamshire
59,305
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2014: 1st
London
1,017,154
7th 2014: 8th
Hertfordshire
96,909
12th 2014: 12th
Berkshire
63,186
14th 2014: 14th
Buckinghamshire
59,305
29th 2014: 29th
Northamptonshire
39,638
30th 2014: 30th
Oxfordshire
37,534
32nd 2014: 32nd
Bedfordshire
34,911
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2014: 1st
London
1,017,154
2nd 2014: 2nd
Greater Manchester
156,025
3rd 2014: 3rd
West Midlands
147,044
4th 2014: 4th
Essex
107,891
5th 2014: 5th
West Yorkshire
102,450
6th 2014: 6th
Hampshire
98,825
7th 2014: 8th
Hertfordshire
96,909
8th 2014: 9th
Kent
94,176
9th 2014: 7th
Surrey
93,699
10th 2014: 10th
Cheshire
67,995
11th 2014: 11th
Lancashire
65,240
12th 2014: 12th
Berkshire
63,186
13th 2014: 13th
East Sussex
61,290
14th 2014: 14th
Buckinghamshire
59,305
15th 2014: 15th
Merseyside
56,875
16th 2014: 16th
South Yorkshire
52,205
17th 2014: 18th
Leicestershire
48,126
18th 2014: 19th
Dorset
47,433
19th 2014: 17th
West Sussex
47,267
20th 2014: 21st
North Yorkshire
46,660
21st 2014: 20th
Gloucestershire
46,009
22nd 2014: 22nd
Devon
44,917
23rd 2014: 23rd
Somerset
44,277
24th 2014: 25th
Staffordshire
44,125
25th 2014: 26th
Derbyshire
43,692
26th 2014: 24th
Nottinghamshire
43,336
27th 2014: 27th
Cambridgeshire
41,403
28th 2014: 28th
Lincolnshire
39,944
29th 2014: 29th
Northamptonshire
39,638
30th 2014: 30th
Oxfordshire
37,534
31st 2014: 31st
Tyne and Wear
36,643
32nd 2014: 32nd
Bedfordshire
34,911
33rd 2014: 33rd
Wiltshire
33,003
34th 2014: 34th
Warwickshire
32,797
35th 2014: 35th
Norfolk
32,493
36th 2014: 36th
Suffolk
30,944
37th 2014: 37th
Bristol
30,301
38th 2014: 38th
Worcestershire
29,303
39th 2014: 39th
Durham
24,091
40th 2014: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
22,144
41st 2014: 41st
Shropshire
19,451
42nd 2014: 42nd
Cumbria
19,348
43rd 2014: 43rd
Cornwall
18,859
44th 2014: 44th
Northumberland
9,370
45th 2014: 45th
Herefordshire
8,115
46th 2014: 46th
Isle of Wight
4,853
47th 2014: 47th
Rutland
1,677

Total companies at the end of 2015 per 1000 Person people

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In Buckinghamshire

78.4

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59.4

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The last 5 years

How the total number of companies in Buckinghamshire has changed over the last 5 years as new companies have been formed and some existing companies dissolved.

2011

6,804 formed

4,272 dissolved

2012

7,559 formed

4,089 dissolved

2013

7,727 formed

4,734 dissolved

2014

8,157 formed

5,368 dissolved

2015

8,249 formed

5,489 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

7.4% vs 2011

5.9% vs 2012

5.2% vs 2013

5.6% vs 2014