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Company Formations in 2021: Buckinghamshire

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???? Businesses formed in Buckinghamshire during 2021

1.2% more companies in Buckinghamshire compared to 2020

New businesses in Buckinghamshire mapped

Aylesbury Vale 1,550 formed

Chiltern 894 formed

Milton Keynes 3,407 formed

South Bucks 1,216 formed

Wycombe 1,818 formed

Companies formed in 2021 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 2020: 1st
London
269,246
2nd 2020: 2nd
West Midlands
36,485
3rd 2020: 3rd
Greater Manchester
36,442
4th 2020: 4th
West Yorkshire
22,140
5th 2020: 5th
Essex
18,584
16th 2020: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,910
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2020: 1st
London
269,246
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,899
15th 2020: 15th
Berkshire
9,605
16th 2020: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,910
24th 2020: 18th
Bedfordshire
7,413
27th 2020: 23rd
Northamptonshire
7,131
38th 2020: 34th
Oxfordshire
5,053
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2020: 1st
London
269,246
2nd 2020: 2nd
West Midlands
36,485
3rd 2020: 3rd
Greater Manchester
36,442
4th 2020: 4th
West Yorkshire
22,140
5th 2020: 5th
Essex
18,584
6th 2020: 6th
Kent
16,625
7th 2020: 7th
Hampshire
14,512
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,899
9th 2020: 9th
Merseyside
13,108
10th 2020: 10th
Lancashire
12,800
11th 2020: 12th
Surrey
11,021
12th 2020: 14th
South Yorkshire
10,815
13th 2020: 13th
Cheshire
9,800
14th 2020: 11th
Leicestershire
9,685
15th 2020: 15th
Berkshire
9,605
16th 2020: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,910
17th 2020: 17th
Nottinghamshire
8,810
18th 2020: 22nd
Staffordshire
8,541
19th 2020: 20th
East Sussex
7,675
20th 2020: 21st
Tyne and Wear
7,623
21st 2020: 19th
North Yorkshire
7,614
22nd 2020: 26th
Dorset
7,584
23rd 2020: 24th
Cambridgeshire
7,476
24th 2020: 18th
Bedfordshire
7,413
25th 2020: 28th
Worcestershire
7,361
26th 2020: 25th
Derbyshire
7,261
27th 2020: 23rd
Northamptonshire
7,131
28th 2020: 31st
Somerset
7,057
29th 2020: 30th
Lincolnshire
6,903
30th 2020: 27th
Devon
6,825
31st 2020: 29th
West Sussex
6,463
32nd 2020: 32nd
Gloucestershire
6,357
33rd 2020: 35th
Suffolk
5,445
34th 2020: 37th
Norfolk
5,214
35th 2020: 33rd
Bristol
5,125
36th 2020: 38th
Warwickshire
5,117
37th 2020: 36th
Durham
5,065
38th 2020: 34th
Oxfordshire
5,053
39th 2020: 39th
Wiltshire
4,432
40th 2020: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
3,749
41st 2020: 42nd
Cornwall
2,993
42nd 2020: 41st
Shropshire
2,914
43rd 2020: 44th
Herefordshire
2,858
44th 2020: 43rd
Cumbria
2,286
45th 2020: 45th
Northumberland
1,421
46th 2020: 46th
Isle of Wight
697
47th 2020: 47th
Rutland
195

New incorporations in 2021 per 1000 Man standing people

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11.8

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Type of companies formed in Buckinghamshire breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (8,659 companies)

3% Other company types (251 companies)

Other company types breakdown (251 companies)

Total companies in Buckinghamshire by the end of 2021

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Businesses formed in Buckinghamshire during 2021

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Businesses dissolved in Buckinghamshire during 2021

Due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, Companies House did not always process company dissolutions as soon as the standard conditions for dissolution were first met.

meaning there is a total of

74,634

businesses registered in Buckinghamshire at the end of 2021.

1.2% more companies in Buckinghamshire compared to 2020

Surrounding counties 2021 breakdown & comparison

Hertfordshire

118,798 total businesses
13,899 formed in 2021
13,874 dissolved in 2021

Northamptonshire

53,149 total businesses
7,131 formed in 2021
6,724 dissolved in 2021

Oxfordshire

45,883 total businesses
5,053 formed in 2021
4,163 dissolved in 2021

London

1,397,474 total businesses
269,246 formed in 2021
187,697 dissolved in 2021

Bedfordshire

47,831 total businesses
7,413 formed in 2021
5,675 dissolved in 2021

Berkshire

75,011 total businesses
9,605 formed in 2021
8,449 dissolved in 2021

Buckinghamshire

74,634 total businesses
8,910 formed in 2021
7,932 dissolved in 2021

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville
53
62
9
Bedgrove
27
40
13
Buckingham North
82
64
-18
Buckingham South
59
65
6
Central & Walton
111
104
-7
Coldharbour
45
56
11
Edlesborough
39
48
9
Elmhurst
45
75
30
Gatehouse
154
121
-33
Great Brickhill & Newton Longville
49
47
-2
Great Horwood
42
57
15
Grendon Underwood & Brill
56
49
-7
Haddenham & Stone
70
52
-18
Long Crendon
23
20
-3
Luffield Abbey
15
18
3
Mandeville & Elm Farm
34
48
14
Marsh Gibbon
13
20
7
Oakfield & Bierton
34
52
18
Oakley
27
22
-5
Pitstone & Cheddington
37
30
-7
Quainton
19
22
3
Riverside
76
128
52
Southcourt
38
47
9
Steeple Claydon
16
20
4
Stewkley
17
18
1
Tingewick
15
14
-1
Waddesdon
22
40
18
Walton Court & Hawkslade
26
43
17
Watermead
22
18
-4
Wendover & Halton
54
46
-8
Wing
26
32
6
Wingrave
43
28
-15
Winslow
87
44
-43
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Amersham Common
21
32
11
Amersham Town
71
55
-16
Amersham-on-the-Hill
39
52
13
Asheridge Vale and Lowndes
34
35
1
Ashley Green Latimer and Chenies
11
22
11
Austenwood
32
20
-12
Ballinger South Heath and Chartridge
43
12
-31
Central
59
60
1
Chalfont Common
42
24
-18
Chalfont St Giles
49
64
15
Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill
45
40
-5
Cholesbury The Lee and Bellingdon
12
16
4
Chorleywood North & Sarratt
0
0
Gold Hill
13
15
2
Great Missenden
24
26
2
Hilltop and Townsend
35
34
-1
Holmer Green
34
31
-3
Little Chalfont
67
83
16
Little Missenden
11
13
2
Newtown
24
22
-2
Penn and Coleshill
64
67
3
Prestwood and Heath End
32
40
8
Ridgeway
14
13
-1
Seer Green
12
19
7
St Mary's and Waterside
70
91
21
Vale
14
8
-6
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bletchley East
259
219
-40
Bletchley Park
93
142
49
Bletchley West
76
120
44
Bradwell
115
248
133
Broughton
201
246
45
Campbell Park & Old Woughton
91
107
16
Central Milton Keynes
405
400
-5
Danesborough & Walton
106
119
13
Loughton & Shenley
328
162
-166
Monkston
130
117
-13
Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope
84
109
25
Newport Pagnell South
147
181
34
Olney
98
86
-12
Shenley Brook End
127
132
5
Stantonbury
175
235
60
Stony Stratford
142
245
103
Tattenhoe
134
136
2
Wolverton
200
237
37
Woughton & Fishermead
128
166
38
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Beaconsfield North
32
34
2
Beaconsfield South
91
156
65
Beaconsfield West
57
51
-6
Burnham Church & Beeches
120
152
32
Burnham Lent Rise & Taplow
77
87
10
Denham
110
111
1
Farnham & Hedgerley
59
73
14
Gerrards Cross
122
299
177
Iver Heath
50
62
12
Iver Village & Richings Park
70
96
26
Stoke Poges
43
63
20
Wexham & Fulmer
35
32
-3
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Abbey
196
303
107
Bledlow and Bradenham
11
20
9
Booker and Cressex
34
49
15
Bourne End-cum-Hedsor
69
62
-7
Bowerdean
36
62
26
Chiltern Rise
41
51
10
Disraeli
53
38
-15
Downley and Plomer Hill
31
32
1
Flackwell Heath and Little Marlow
49
38
-11
Greater Hughenden
41
34
-7
Greater Marlow
28
33
5
Hambleden Valley
21
30
9
Hazlemere North
23
36
13
Hazlemere South
23
41
18
Icknield
17
31
14
Lacey Green Speen and the Hampdens
20
15
-5
Marlow North and West
100
110
10
Marlow South East
151
89
-62
Micklefield
27
41
14
Oakridge and Castlefield
102
170
68
Ryemead
69
75
6
Sands
55
69
14
Stokenchurch and Radnage
33
27
-6
Terriers and Amersham Hill
91
76
-15
The Risboroughs
96
72
-24
The Wooburns
42
76
34
Totteridge
46
63
17
Tylers Green and Loudwater
100
75
-25

Total companies 2021 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2021 and how Buckinghamshire compares to them.

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Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2020: 1st
London
1,397,474
2nd 2020: 2nd
Greater Manchester
217,557
3rd 2020: 3rd
West Midlands
198,781
4th 2020: 4th
Essex
141,948
5th 2020: 5th
West Yorkshire
141,120
14th 2020: 13th
Buckinghamshire
74,634
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2020: 1st
London
1,397,474
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
118,798
13th 2020: 14th
Berkshire
75,011
14th 2020: 13th
Buckinghamshire
74,634
28th 2020: 27th
Northamptonshire
53,149
31st 2020: 31st
Bedfordshire
47,831
32nd 2020: 32nd
Oxfordshire
45,883
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2020: 1st
London
1,397,474
2nd 2020: 2nd
Greater Manchester
217,557
3rd 2020: 3rd
West Midlands
198,781
4th 2020: 4th
Essex
141,948
5th 2020: 5th
West Yorkshire
141,120
6th 2020: 6th
Kent
126,550
7th 2020: 7th
Hampshire
123,584
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
118,798
9th 2020: 9th
Surrey
106,792
10th 2020: 11th
Lancashire
87,562
11th 2020: 10th
Cheshire
83,426
12th 2020: 12th
Merseyside
78,022
13th 2020: 14th
Berkshire
75,011
14th 2020: 13th
Buckinghamshire
74,634
15th 2020: 15th
Leicestershire
71,867
16th 2020: 16th
East Sussex
70,862
17th 2020: 17th
South Yorkshire
68,227
18th 2020: 19th
Devon
60,022
19th 2020: 18th
North Yorkshire
59,819
20th 2020: 21st
Nottinghamshire
58,780
21st 2020: 20th
West Sussex
57,619
22nd 2020: 24th
Staffordshire
57,556
23rd 2020: 23rd
Somerset
57,300
24th 2020: 22nd
Gloucestershire
56,711
25th 2020: 25th
Dorset
56,465
26th 2020: 26th
Cambridgeshire
56,346
27th 2020: 28th
Derbyshire
53,394
28th 2020: 27th
Northamptonshire
53,149
29th 2020: 29th
Lincolnshire
50,076
30th 2020: 30th
Tyne and Wear
49,266
31st 2020: 31st
Bedfordshire
47,831
32nd 2020: 32nd
Oxfordshire
45,883
33rd 2020: 34th
Norfolk
43,452
34th 2020: 33rd
Worcestershire
42,443
35th 2020: 36th
Suffolk
41,836
36th 2020: 35th
Warwickshire
40,740
37th 2020: 37th
Wiltshire
39,338
38th 2020: 38th
Bristol
36,239
39th 2020: 39th
Durham
33,620
40th 2020: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
27,909
41st 2020: 41st
Shropshire
25,765
42nd 2020: 42nd
Cornwall
24,752
43rd 2020: 43rd
Cumbria
22,499
44th 2020: 44th
Herefordshire
14,830
45th 2020: 45th
Northumberland
11,895
46th 2020: 46th
Isle of Wight
6,319
47th 2020: 47th
Rutland
2,056

Total companies at the end of 2021 per 1000 Person people

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In Buckinghamshire

98.6

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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.

2017

7,992 formed

6,695 dissolved

2018

8,915 formed

6,799 dissolved

2019

8,835 formed

9,133 dissolved

2020

9,394 formed

6,115 dissolved

2021

8,910 formed

7,932 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

7.38% vs 2017

0.24% vs 2018

6.16% vs 2019

1.2% vs 2020