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Company Formations in 2022: Buckinghamshire

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???? Businesses formed in Buckinghamshire during 2022

5.6% more companies in Buckinghamshire compared to 2021

New businesses in Buckinghamshire mapped

Aylesbury Vale 1,616 formed

Chiltern 861 formed

Milton Keynes 3,323 formed

South Bucks 1,054 formed

Wycombe 1,808 formed

Companies formed in 2022 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 2021: 1st
London
274,838
2nd 2021: 2nd
West Midlands
39,355
3rd 2021: 3rd
Greater Manchester
38,756
4th 2021: 4th
West Yorkshire
25,517
5th 2021: 5th
Essex
18,955
17th 2021: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,683
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2021: 1st
London
274,838
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,643
14th 2021: 15th
Berkshire
9,571
17th 2021: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,683
18th 2021: 24th
Bedfordshire
8,495
23rd 2021: 27th
Northamptonshire
7,831
38th 2021: 38th
Oxfordshire
4,842
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2021: 1st
London
274,838
2nd 2021: 2nd
West Midlands
39,355
3rd 2021: 3rd
Greater Manchester
38,756
4th 2021: 4th
West Yorkshire
25,517
5th 2021: 5th
Essex
18,955
6th 2021: 6th
Kent
16,109
7th 2021: 7th
Hampshire
14,533
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,643
9th 2021: 9th
Merseyside
13,358
10th 2021: 10th
Lancashire
13,312
11th 2021: 12th
South Yorkshire
11,901
12th 2021: 11th
Surrey
10,902
13th 2021: 14th
Leicestershire
10,408
14th 2021: 15th
Berkshire
9,571
15th 2021: 13th
Cheshire
9,335
16th 2021: 17th
Nottinghamshire
9,235
17th 2021: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,683
18th 2021: 24th
Bedfordshire
8,495
19th 2021: 22nd
Dorset
8,427
20th 2021: 21st
North Yorkshire
8,424
21st 2021: 18th
Staffordshire
8,072
22nd 2021: 20th
Tyne and Wear
7,838
23rd 2021: 27th
Northamptonshire
7,831
24th 2021: 26th
Derbyshire
7,764
25th 2021: 23rd
Cambridgeshire
7,739
26th 2021: 19th
East Sussex
7,193
27th 2021: 28th
Somerset
7,121
28th 2021: 29th
Lincolnshire
7,100
29th 2021: 30th
Devon
6,814
30th 2021: 33rd
Suffolk
6,749
31st 2021: 32nd
Gloucestershire
6,373
32nd 2021: 31st
West Sussex
6,136
33rd 2021: 36th
Warwickshire
5,540
34th 2021: 34th
Norfolk
5,384
35th 2021: 37th
Durham
5,109
36th 2021: 35th
Bristol
4,951
37th 2021: 25th
Worcestershire
4,941
38th 2021: 38th
Oxfordshire
4,842
39th 2021: 39th
Wiltshire
4,536
40th 2021: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
4,233
41st 2021: 42nd
Shropshire
3,132
42nd 2021: 43rd
Herefordshire
2,928
43rd 2021: 41st
Cornwall
2,912
44th 2021: 44th
Cumbria
2,418
45th 2021: 45th
Northumberland
1,527
46th 2021: 46th
Isle of Wight
652
47th 2021: 47th
Rutland
193

New incorporations in 2022 per 1000 Man standing people

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11.5

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Type of companies formed in Buckinghamshire breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (8,413 companies)

3% Other company types (270 companies)

Other company types breakdown (270 companies)

Total companies in Buckinghamshire by the end of 2022

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Businesses formed in Buckinghamshire during 2022

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Businesses dissolved in Buckinghamshire during 2022

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

78,850

businesses registered in Buckinghamshire at the end of 2022.

5.6% more companies in Buckinghamshire compared to 2021

Surrounding counties 2022 breakdown & comparison

Hertfordshire

122,123 total businesses
13,643 formed in 2022
11,771 dissolved in 2022

Northamptonshire

51,966 total businesses
7,831 formed in 2022
6,606 dissolved in 2022

Oxfordshire

46,748 total businesses
4,842 formed in 2022
4,009 dissolved in 2022

London

1,462,539 total businesses
274,838 formed in 2022
185,954 dissolved in 2022

Bedfordshire

50,545 total businesses
8,495 formed in 2022
5,785 dissolved in 2022

Berkshire

76,700 total businesses
9,571 formed in 2022
7,937 dissolved in 2022

Buckinghamshire

78,850 total businesses
8,683 formed in 2022
8,214 dissolved in 2022

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aston Clinton & Stoke Mandeville
64
71
7
Bedgrove
29
39
10
Buckingham North
68
90
22
Buckingham South
56
67
11
Central & Walton
95
107
12
Coldharbour
47
57
10
Edlesborough
36
25
-11
Elmhurst
55
62
7
Gatehouse
138
124
-14
Great Brickhill & Newton Longville
39
68
29
Great Horwood
52
35
-17
Grendon Underwood & Brill
42
52
10
Haddenham & Stone
52
81
29
Long Crendon
16
27
11
Luffield Abbey
16
20
4
Mandeville & Elm Farm
48
48
0
Marsh Gibbon
18
20
2
Oakfield & Bierton
35
52
17
Oakley
14
13
-1
Pitstone & Cheddington
28
40
12
Quainton
15
21
6
Riverside
933
148
-785
Southcourt
47
51
4
Steeple Claydon
18
23
5
Stewkley
21
20
-1
Tingewick
20
13
-7
Waddesdon
22
37
15
Walton Court & Hawkslade
22
42
20
Watermead
21
13
-8
Wendover & Halton
39
64
25
Wing
27
14
-13
Wingrave
30
28
-2
Winslow
105
44
-61
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Amersham Common
10
30
20
Amersham Town
50
47
-3
Amersham-on-the-Hill
33
48
15
Asheridge Vale and Lowndes
26
30
4
Ashley Green Latimer and Chenies
12
20
8
Austenwood
17
23
6
Ballinger South Heath and Chartridge
13
10
-3
Central
60
77
17
Chalfont Common
29
38
9
Chalfont St Giles
45
64
19
Chesham Bois and Weedon Hill
35
28
-7
Cholesbury The Lee and Bellingdon
8
13
5
Chorleywood North & Sarratt
0
0
Gold Hill
13
15
2
Great Missenden
25
23
-2
Hilltop and Townsend
29
34
5
Holmer Green
30
25
-5
Little Chalfont
63
63
0
Little Missenden
15
15
0
Newtown
12
20
8
Penn and Coleshill
48
72
24
Prestwood and Heath End
25
26
1
Ridgeway
16
13
-3
Seer Green
17
18
1
St Mary's and Waterside
69
94
25
Vale
8
15
7
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bletchley East
244
248
4
Bletchley Park
146
167
21
Bletchley West
92
81
-11
Bradwell
189
135
-54
Broughton
176
234
58
Campbell Park & Old Woughton
103
114
11
Central Milton Keynes
314
415
101
Danesborough & Walton
76
131
55
Loughton & Shenley
278
163
-115
Monkston
106
151
45
Newport Pagnell North & Hanslope
75
89
14
Newport Pagnell South
126
208
82
Olney
91
94
3
Shenley Brook End
123
129
6
Stantonbury
177
269
92
Stony Stratford
144
118
-26
Tattenhoe
105
132
27
Wolverton
170
228
58
Woughton & Fishermead
144
217
73
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Beaconsfield North
20
33
13
Beaconsfield South
121
140
19
Beaconsfield West
37
54
17
Burnham Church & Beeches
89
128
39
Burnham Lent Rise & Taplow
56
85
29
Denham
71
134
63
Farnham & Hedgerley
71
74
3
Gerrards Cross
131
165
34
Iver Heath
35
60
25
Iver Village & Richings Park
68
105
37
Stoke Poges
44
54
10
Wexham & Fulmer
28
22
-6
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Abbey
215
308
93
Bledlow and Bradenham
13
22
9
Booker and Cressex
22
44
22
Bourne End-cum-Hedsor
53
56
3
Bowerdean
46
74
28
Chiltern Rise
44
51
7
Disraeli
50
63
13
Downley and Plomer Hill
28
32
4
Flackwell Heath and Little Marlow
35
30
-5
Greater Hughenden
51
37
-14
Greater Marlow
25
34
9
Hambleden Valley
13
19
6
Hazlemere North
18
33
15
Hazlemere South
29
47
18
Icknield
24
29
5
Lacey Green Speen and the Hampdens
20
13
-7
Marlow North and West
111
99
-12
Marlow South East
86
76
-10
Micklefield
27
42
15
Oakridge and Castlefield
127
204
77
Ryemead
69
81
12
Sands
55
55
0
Stokenchurch and Radnage
26
33
7
Terriers and Amersham Hill
75
88
13
The Risboroughs
60
40
-20
The Wooburns
46
57
11
Totteridge
42
58
16
Tylers Green and Loudwater
66
83
17

Total companies 2022 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2022 and how Buckinghamshire compares to them.

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Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2021: 1st
London
1,462,539
2nd 2021: 2nd
Greater Manchester
233,019
3rd 2021: 3rd
West Midlands
211,766
4th 2021: 5th
West Yorkshire
151,175
5th 2021: 4th
Essex
148,387
13th 2021: 14th
Buckinghamshire
78,850
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2021: 1st
London
1,462,539
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
122,123
13th 2021: 14th
Buckinghamshire
78,850
14th 2021: 13th
Berkshire
76,700
29th 2021: 28th
Northamptonshire
51,966
31st 2021: 31st
Bedfordshire
50,545
32nd 2021: 32nd
Oxfordshire
46,748
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2021: 1st
London
1,462,539
2nd 2021: 2nd
Greater Manchester
233,019
3rd 2021: 3rd
West Midlands
211,766
4th 2021: 5th
West Yorkshire
151,175
5th 2021: 4th
Essex
148,387
6th 2021: 6th
Kent
130,283
7th 2021: 7th
Hampshire
124,249
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
122,123
9th 2021: 9th
Surrey
107,722
10th 2021: 10th
Lancashire
91,522
11th 2021: 11th
Cheshire
81,809
12th 2021: 12th
Merseyside
81,221
13th 2021: 14th
Buckinghamshire
78,850
14th 2021: 13th
Berkshire
76,700
15th 2021: 15th
Leicestershire
73,507
16th 2021: 17th
South Yorkshire
72,058
17th 2021: 16th
East Sussex
70,836
18th 2021: 19th
North Yorkshire
62,355
19th 2021: 20th
Nottinghamshire
62,142
20th 2021: 18th
Devon
61,854
21st 2021: 25th
Dorset
61,217
22nd 2021: 22nd
Staffordshire
60,009
23rd 2021: 23rd
Somerset
59,531
24th 2021: 21st
West Sussex
58,763
25th 2021: 24th
Gloucestershire
57,852
26th 2021: 26th
Cambridgeshire
57,788
27th 2021: 27th
Derbyshire
55,697
28th 2021: 29th
Lincolnshire
53,143
29th 2021: 28th
Northamptonshire
51,966
30th 2021: 30th
Tyne and Wear
51,640
31st 2021: 31st
Bedfordshire
50,545
32nd 2021: 32nd
Oxfordshire
46,748
33rd 2021: 33rd
Norfolk
45,968
34th 2021: 35th
Suffolk
45,867
35th 2021: 34th
Worcestershire
43,964
36th 2021: 36th
Warwickshire
42,564
37th 2021: 37th
Wiltshire
40,505
38th 2021: 38th
Bristol
37,039
39th 2021: 39th
Durham
35,455
40th 2021: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
29,451
41st 2021: 41st
Shropshire
26,781
42nd 2021: 42nd
Cornwall
25,857
43rd 2021: 43rd
Cumbria
23,003
44th 2021: 44th
Herefordshire
16,412
45th 2021: 45th
Northumberland
12,420
46th 2021: 46th
Isle of Wight
6,423
47th 2021: 47th
Rutland
2,076

Total companies at the end of 2022 per 1000 Person people

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104.2

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82.7

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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.

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

2022

8,683 formed

8,214 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

0.24% vs 2018

6.16% vs 2019

1.2% vs 2020

5.6% vs 2021