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Company Formations in 2016: Essex

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???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2016

3.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2015

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 1,863
  • BBraintree: 914
  • CBrentwood: 822
  • DCastle Point: 726
  • EChelmsford: 1,497
  • FColchester: 1,385
  • GEpping Forest: 1,679
  • HHarlow: 734
  • IMaldon: 476
  • JRochford: 639
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 2,093
  • LTendring: 613
  • MThurrock: 1,744
  • NUttlesford: 690

Companies formed in 2016 league table

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

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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2015: 1st
London
209,869
2nd 2015: 2nd
Greater Manchester
32,999
3rd 2015: 3rd
West Midlands
31,162
4th 2015: 4th
West Yorkshire
17,837
5th 2015: 6th
Hertfordshire
17,671
6th 2015: 5th
Essex
15,887
Rank
County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2015: 1st
London
209,869
5th 2015: 6th
Hertfordshire
17,671
6th 2015: 5th
Essex
15,887
8th 2015: 7th
Kent
14,577
28th 2015: 25th
Cambridgeshire
6,208
38th 2015: 37th
Suffolk
4,291
Rank
County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2015: 1st
London
209,869
2nd 2015: 2nd
Greater Manchester
32,999
3rd 2015: 3rd
West Midlands
31,162
4th 2015: 4th
West Yorkshire
17,837
5th 2015: 6th
Hertfordshire
17,671
6th 2015: 5th
Essex
15,887
7th 2015: 10th
Cheshire
15,328
8th 2015: 7th
Kent
14,577
9th 2015: 8th
Hampshire
14,249
10th 2015: 24th
Bedfordshire
13,677
11th 2015: 34th
Wiltshire
11,837
12th 2015: 9th
Surrey
11,070
13th 2015: 12th
Merseyside
10,617
14th 2015: 11th
Lancashire
10,600
15th 2015: 13th
South Yorkshire
9,265
16th 2015: 14th
Berkshire
9,081
17th 2015: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,523
18th 2015: 18th
Leicestershire
8,307
19th 2015: 17th
Dorset
8,113
20th 2015: 15th
East Sussex
7,939
21st 2015: 22nd
Staffordshire
7,618
22nd 2015: 23rd
Northamptonshire
7,050
23rd 2015: 20th
Nottinghamshire
6,642
24th 2015: 39th
Worcestershire
6,602
25th 2015: 21st
North Yorkshire
6,525
26th 2015: 27th
Tyne and Wear
6,380
27th 2015: 19th
Derbyshire
6,271
28th 2015: 25th
Cambridgeshire
6,208
29th 2015: 26th
West Sussex
5,996
30th 2015: 30th
Devon
5,703
31st 2015: 28th
Lincolnshire
5,698
32nd 2015: 29th
Gloucestershire
5,639
33rd 2015: 31st
Somerset
5,328
34th 2015: 32nd
Bristol
5,196
35th 2015: 35th
Warwickshire
4,709
36th 2015: 33rd
Oxfordshire
4,517
37th 2015: 36th
Norfolk
4,480
38th 2015: 37th
Suffolk
4,291
39th 2015: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
4,080
40th 2015: 38th
Durham
4,017
41st 2015: 41st
Shropshire
2,496
42nd 2015: 42nd
Cornwall
2,468
43rd 2015: 43rd
Cumbria
1,979
44th 2015: 44th
Northumberland
1,302
45th 2015: 45th
Herefordshire
853
46th 2015: 46th
Isle of Wight
545
47th 2015: 47th
Rutland
217

New incorporations in 2016 per 1000 Man standing people

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

98% Private Limited Companies (15,536 companies)

2% Other company types (351 companies)

Other company types breakdown (351 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2016

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2016

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2016

meaning there is a total of

112,065

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2016.

3.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2015

Surrounding counties 2016 breakdown & comparison

Cambridgeshire

43,412 total businesses
6,208 formed in 2016
4,498 dissolved in 2016

Hertfordshire

104,699 total businesses
17,671 formed in 2016
11,308 dissolved in 2016

Kent

98,931 total businesses
14,577 formed in 2016
10,985 dissolved in 2016

Suffolk

32,526 total businesses
4,291 formed in 2016
2,931 dissolved in 2016

London

1,070,255 total businesses
209,869 formed in 2016
152,312 dissolved in 2016

Essex

112,065 total businesses
15,887 formed in 2016
12,823 dissolved in 2016

SuffolkCambridgeshireEssexHertfordshireLondonKent

Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
157
223
66
Billericay West
137
160
23
Burstead
72
88
16
Crouch
49
66
17
Fryerns
216
371
155
Laindon Park
67
102
35
Langdon Hills
49
58
9
Lee Chapel North
55
75
20
Nethermayne
61
84
23
Pitsea North West
54
94
40
Pitsea South East
55
91
36
St Martin's
62
77
15
Vange
38
53
15
Wickford Castledon
133
76
-57
Wickford North
134
186
52
Wickford Park
72
59
-13
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
28
35
7
Bocking North
22
30
8
Bocking South
34
36
2
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
108
137
29
Braintree South
10
20
10
Braintree West
17
20
3
Bumpstead
6
9
3
Coggeshall
20
31
11
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
11
11
0
Great Notley & Black Notley
99
62
-37
Halstead St Andrew's
32
35
3
Halstead Trinity
19
34
15
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
37
24
-13
Hedingham
50
36
-14
Kelvedon & Feering
47
68
21
Rayne
16
12
-4
Silver End & Cressing
24
24
0
Stour Valley North
15
17
2
Stour Valley South
11
14
3
The Colnes
32
25
-7
Three Fields
27
21
-6
Witham Central
87
113
26
Witham North
19
25
6
Witham South
17
40
23
Witham West
14
20
6
Yeldham
6
15
9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
57
97
40
Brentwood South
165
131
-34
Brentwood West
117
109
-8
Brizes and Doddinghurst
34
32
-2
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
46
45
-1
Hutton Central
13
26
13
Hutton East
14
13
-1
Hutton North
21
36
15
Hutton South
14
26
12
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
48
56
8
Pilgrims Hatch
47
47
0
Shenfield
62
70
8
South Weald
12
25
13
Tipps Cross
18
16
-2
Warley
154
93
-61
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
26
32
6
Boyce
22
31
9
Canvey Island Central
55
75
20
Canvey Island East
16
27
11
Canvey Island North
26
23
-3
Canvey Island South
35
55
20
Canvey Island West
20
40
20
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
25
27
2
Cedar Hall
24
41
17
St George's
19
16
-3
St James
108
141
33
St Mary's
105
110
5
St Peter's
29
51
22
Victoria
184
238
54
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
24
27
3
Boreham and The Leighs
21
23
2
Broomfield and The Walthams
34
72
38
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
58
76
18
Chelmsford Rural West
15
18
3
Galleywood
20
25
5
Goat Hall
15
28
13
Great Baddow East
56
68
12
Great Baddow West
17
27
10
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
47
41
-6
Marconi
263
205
-58
Moulsham and Central
340
339
-1
Moulsham Lodge
17
24
7
Patching Hall
25
37
12
Rettendon and Runwell
14
27
13
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
37
42
5
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
22
39
17
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
62
84
22
Springfield North
28
33
5
St Andrews
37
38
1
The Lawns
13
32
19
Trinity
54
96
42
Waterhouse Farm
53
66
13
Writtle
28
56
28
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
56
45
-11
Birch and Winstree
24
27
3
Castle
318
255
-63
Christ Church
59
75
16
Copford and West Stanway
8
40
32
Dedham and Langham
55
94
39
East Donyland
6
8
2
Fordham and Stour
24
31
7
Great Tey
14
37
23
Highwoods
59
92
33
Lexden
32
28
-4
Marks Tey
10
11
1
Mile End
46
86
40
New Town
59
84
25
Old Heath
33
41
8
Prettygate
20
19
-1
Pyefleet
6
17
11
Shrub End
33
50
17
St Andrew's
29
73
44
St Anne's
30
46
16
St John's
10
16
6
Stanway
40
61
21
Tiptree
30
32
2
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
41
34
-7
West Mersea
25
25
0
Wivenhoe Cross
6
5
-1
Wivenhoe Quay
38
53
15
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
11
21
10
Buckhurst Hill East
19
35
16
Buckhurst Hill West
94
111
17
Chigwell Row
15
18
3
Chigwell Village
40
38
-2
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
26
43
17
Epping Hemnall
48
65
17
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
70
87
17
Grange Hill
69
87
18
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
18
20
2
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
12
20
8
Lambourne
12
9
-3
Loughton Alderton
30
53
23
Loughton Broadway
50
100
50
Loughton Fairmead
23
40
17
Loughton Forest
169
256
87
Loughton Roding
34
26
-8
Loughton St John's
47
86
39
Loughton St Mary's
103
59
-44
Lower Nazeing
22
46
24
Lower Sheering
56
51
-5
Moreton and Fyfield
7
17
10
North Weald Bassett
25
44
19
Passingford
27
24
-3
Roydon
22
17
-5
Shelley
10
11
1
Theydon Bois
22
32
10
Waltham Abbey High Beach
11
27
16
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
29
40
11
Waltham Abbey North East
50
61
11
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
13
16
3
Waltham Abbey South West
73
119
46
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
24
38
14
Church Langley
31
49
18
Great Parndon
20
26
6
Harlow Common
10
35
25
Hunsdon
0
0
Little Parndon and Hare Street
59
104
45
Mark Hall
80
79
-1
Netteswell
22
81
59
Old Harlow
90
100
10
Staple Tye
32
55
23
Sumners and Kingsmoor
29
50
21
Toddbrook
41
117
76
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
13
27
14
Burnham-on-Crouch North
15
12
-3
Burnham-on-Crouch South
40
47
7
Great Totham
24
33
9
Heybridge East
16
10
-6
Heybridge West
25
31
6
Maldon East
10
7
-3
Maldon North
78
118
40
Maldon South
10
8
-2
Maldon West
9
13
4
Mayland
16
31
15
Purleigh
13
17
4
Silver End & Cressing
24
24
0
Southminster
22
14
-8
Tillingham
6
6
0
Tollesbury
9
8
-1
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
37
57
20
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
22
37
15
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
17
15
-2
Barling and Sutton
9
12
3
Downhall and Rawreth
33
61
28
Foulness and Great Wakering
16
19
3
Grange
9
13
4
Hawkwell North
7
13
6
Hawkwell South
11
12
1
Hawkwell West
26
47
21
Hockley Central
25
43
18
Hockley North
6
2
-4
Hockley West
11
14
3
Hullbridge
17
34
17
Lodge
10
15
5
Rayleigh Central
9
19
10
Rochford
146
142
-4
Sweyne Park
8
20
12
Trinity
54
96
42
Wheatley
109
110
1
Whitehouse
13
22
9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
62
71
9
Blenheim Park
60
106
46
Chalkwell
113
152
39
Eastwood Park
62
105
43
Kursaal
399
87
-312
Leigh
105
121
16
Milton
524
568
44
Prittlewell
28
47
19
Shoeburyness
46
58
12
Southchurch
29
46
17
St Laurence
18
32
14
St. Luke's
79
138
59
Thorpe
27
44
17
Victoria
184
238
54
West Leigh
167
198
31
West Shoebury
32
32
0
Westborough
97
123
26
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
2
15
13
Alton Park
13
7
-6
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
41
28
-13
Beaumont and Thorpe
10
14
4
Bockings Elm
7
15
8
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
15
10
-5
Brightlingsea
28
37
9
Burrsville
20
35
15
Frinton
62
33
-29
Golf Green
13
9
-4
Great and Little Oakley
7
11
4
Great Bentley
4
11
7
Hamford
4
6
2
Harwich East
11
17
6
Harwich East Central
24
27
3
Harwich West
11
8
-3
Harwich West Central
4
13
9
Haven
6
2
-4
Holland and Kirby
13
15
2
Homelands
2
3
1
Lawford
7
16
9
Little Clacton and Weeley
12
14
2
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
20
13
-7
Peter Bruff
4
8
4
Pier
45
50
5
Ramsey and Parkeston
3
9
6
Rush Green
9
7
-2
St Bartholomews
6
6
0
St James
108
141
33
St Johns
7
10
3
St Marys
7
12
5
St Osyth and Point Clear
19
25
6
St Pauls
12
13
1
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
29
67
38
Walton
20
31
11
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
42
82
40
Belhus
40
81
41
Chadwell St Mary
29
57
28
Chafford and North Stifford
59
88
29
Corringham and Fobbing
14
32
18
East Tilbury
95
35
-60
Grays Riverside
141
188
47
Grays Thurrock
77
149
72
Little Thurrock Blackshots
20
34
14
Little Thurrock Rectory
58
89
31
Ockendon
48
75
27
Orsett
44
59
15
South Chafford
76
111
35
Stanford East and Corringham Town
62
52
-10
Stanford-le-Hope West
84
182
98
Stifford Clays
21
31
10
The Homesteads
19
38
19
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
60
107
47
Tilbury St Chads
35
67
32
West Thurrock and South Stifford
131
187
56
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
10
7
-3
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
33
38
5
Clavering
13
6
-7
Debden & Wimbish
10
9
-1
Elsenham & Henham
6
20
14
Felsted & Stebbing
25
15
-10
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
12
15
3
Great Dunmow North
15
14
-1
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
81
87
6
Hatfield Heath
14
12
-2
High Easter & the Rodings
9
19
10
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
59
57
-2
Newport
20
18
-2
Saffron Walden Audley
124
126
2
Saffron Walden Castle
12
21
9
Saffron Walden Shire
20
24
4
Stansted North
25
25
0
Stansted South & Birchanger
21
33
12
Stort Valley
7
7
0
Takeley
56
56
0
Thaxted & the Eastons
45
66
21
The Sampfords
10
15
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Total companies 2016 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2016 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2015: 1st
London
1,070,255
2nd 2015: 2nd
Greater Manchester
167,797
3rd 2015: 3rd
West Midlands
156,118
4th 2015: 4th
Essex
112,065
5th 2015: 5th
West Yorkshire
107,764
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2015: 1st
London
1,070,255
4th 2015: 4th
Essex
112,065
6th 2015: 7th
Hertfordshire
104,699
8th 2015: 8th
Kent
98,931
28th 2015: 27th
Cambridgeshire
43,412
37th 2015: 36th
Suffolk
32,526
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2015: 1st
London
1,070,255
2nd 2015: 2nd
Greater Manchester
167,797
3rd 2015: 3rd
West Midlands
156,118
4th 2015: 4th
Essex
112,065
5th 2015: 5th
West Yorkshire
107,764
6th 2015: 7th
Hertfordshire
104,699
7th 2015: 6th
Hampshire
103,043
8th 2015: 8th
Kent
98,931
9th 2015: 9th
Surrey
95,997
10th 2015: 10th
Cheshire
74,912
11th 2015: 11th
Lancashire
68,241
12th 2015: 12th
Berkshire
64,828
13th 2015: 13th
East Sussex
63,012
14th 2015: 14th
Buckinghamshire
62,413
15th 2015: 15th
Merseyside
60,027
16th 2015: 16th
South Yorkshire
55,438
17th 2015: 17th
Leicestershire
52,138
18th 2015: 18th
Dorset
50,419
19th 2015: 19th
West Sussex
48,518
20th 2015: 20th
North Yorkshire
48,164
21st 2015: 21st
Gloucestershire
47,665
22nd 2015: 22nd
Devon
47,095
23rd 2015: 24th
Staffordshire
47,000
24th 2015: 23rd
Somerset
46,011
25th 2015: 26th
Nottinghamshire
45,573
26th 2015: 32nd
Bedfordshire
44,451
27th 2015: 25th
Derbyshire
43,529
28th 2015: 27th
Cambridgeshire
43,412
29th 2015: 33rd
Wiltshire
41,591
30th 2015: 28th
Lincolnshire
40,701
31st 2015: 29th
Northamptonshire
40,600
32nd 2015: 31st
Tyne and Wear
38,544
33rd 2015: 30th
Oxfordshire
38,413
34th 2015: 35th
Norfolk
34,374
35th 2015: 34th
Warwickshire
34,180
36th 2015: 38th
Worcestershire
33,436
37th 2015: 36th
Suffolk
32,526
38th 2015: 37th
Bristol
31,308
39th 2015: 39th
Durham
25,127
40th 2015: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
23,848
41st 2015: 41st
Shropshire
20,422
42nd 2015: 42nd
Cumbria
19,675
43rd 2015: 43rd
Cornwall
19,655
44th 2015: 44th
Northumberland
9,713
45th 2015: 45th
Herefordshire
8,293
46th 2015: 46th
Isle of Wight
4,973
47th 2015: 47th
Rutland
1,742

Total companies at the end of 2016 per 1000 Person people

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The last 5 years

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

2012

13,972 formed

7,917 dissolved

2013

14,352 formed

10,559 dissolved

2014

15,815 formed

10,723 dissolved

2015

16,147 formed

10,382 dissolved

2016

15,887 formed

12,823 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

4.1% vs 2012

5.3% vs 2013

7% vs 2014

3.9% vs 2015