2013
14,352 formed
10,559 dissolved
???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2017
4.1% more companies in Essex compared to 2016
The counties in England where most companies are formed, and how Essex compares.
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st
2016: 1st
|
London |
205,527 |
2nd
2016: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
31,124 |
3rd
2016: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
26,802 |
4th
2016: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
16,604 |
5th
2016: 6th
|
Essex |
15,922 |
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st
2016: 1st
|
London |
205,527 |
5th
2016: 6th
|
Essex |
15,922 |
6th
2016: 8th
|
Kent |
14,860 |
7th
2016: 5th
|
Hertfordshire |
13,752 |
25th
2016: 28th
|
Cambridgeshire |
6,384 |
39th
2016: 38th
|
Suffolk |
4,145 |
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st 2016: 1st
|
London |
205,527 |
2nd 2016: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
31,124 |
3rd 2016: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
26,802 |
4th 2016: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
16,604 |
5th 2016: 6th
|
Essex |
15,922 |
6th 2016: 8th
|
Kent |
14,860 |
7th 2016: 5th
|
Hertfordshire |
13,752 |
8th 2016: 9th
|
Hampshire |
13,642 |
9th 2016: 7th
|
Cheshire |
11,619 |
10th 2016: 13th
|
Merseyside |
11,016 |
11th 2016: 12th
|
Surrey |
11,009 |
12th 2016: 14th
|
Lancashire |
10,646 |
13th 2016: 18th
|
Leicestershire |
10,566 |
14th 2016: 22nd
|
Northamptonshire |
9,958 |
15th 2016: 16th
|
Berkshire |
8,679 |
16th 2016: 15th
|
South Yorkshire |
8,325 |
17th 2016: 17th
|
Buckinghamshire |
7,992 |
18th 2016: 24th
|
Worcestershire |
7,804 |
19th 2016: 20th
|
East Sussex |
7,318 |
20th 2016: 19th
|
Dorset |
7,242 |
21st 2016: 23rd
|
Nottinghamshire |
6,937 |
22nd 2016: 25th
|
North Yorkshire |
6,766 |
23rd 2016: 10th
|
Bedfordshire |
6,469 |
24th 2016: 21st
|
Staffordshire |
6,449 |
25th 2016: 28th
|
Cambridgeshire |
6,384 |
26th 2016: 26th
|
Tyne and Wear |
6,166 |
27th 2016: 27th
|
Derbyshire |
5,803 |
28th 2016: 30th
|
Devon |
5,615 |
29th 2016: 29th
|
West Sussex |
5,598 |
30th 2016: 32nd
|
Gloucestershire |
5,447 |
31st 2016: 31st
|
Lincolnshire |
5,414 |
32nd 2016: 33rd
|
Somerset |
5,329 |
33rd 2016: 11th
|
Wiltshire |
5,227 |
34th 2016: 34th
|
Bristol |
4,744 |
35th 2016: 39th
|
East Riding of Yorkshire |
4,646 |
36th 2016: 35th
|
Warwickshire |
4,617 |
37th 2016: 36th
|
Oxfordshire |
4,612 |
38th 2016: 37th
|
Norfolk |
4,399 |
39th 2016: 38th
|
Suffolk |
4,145 |
40th 2016: 40th
|
Durham |
4,077 |
41st 2016: 42nd
|
Cornwall |
2,665 |
42nd 2016: 41st
|
Shropshire |
2,474 |
43rd 2016: 43rd
|
Cumbria |
2,215 |
44th 2016: 44th
|
Northumberland |
1,360 |
45th 2016: 45th
|
Herefordshire |
906 |
46th 2016: 46th
|
Isle of Wight |
528 |
47th 2016: 47th
|
Rutland |
186 |
9.2
10.0
98% Private Limited Companies (15,571 companies)
2% Other company types (351 companies)
Other company types breakdown (351 companies)
????
Businesses formed in Essex during 2017
????
Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2017
116,669
businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2017.
4.1% more companies in Essex compared to 2016
Cambridgeshire
46,059 total businesses
6,384 formed in 2017
4,395 dissolved in 2017
Hertfordshire
105,506 total businesses
13,752 formed in 2017
11,826 dissolved in 2017
Kent
105,182 total businesses
14,860 formed in 2017
10,950 dissolved in 2017
Suffolk
33,994 total businesses
4,145 formed in 2017
2,936 dissolved in 2017
London
1,114,699 total businesses
205,527 formed in 2017
153,566 dissolved in 2017
Essex
116,669 total businesses
15,922 formed in 2017
12,534 dissolved in 2017
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Billericay East |
154 |
||
Billericay West |
29 |
||
Burstead |
-22 |
||
Crouch |
31 |
||
Fryerns |
88 |
||
Laindon Park |
50 |
||
Langdon Hills |
12 |
||
Lee Chapel North |
-2 |
||
Nethermayne |
-2 |
||
Pitsea North West |
58 |
||
Pitsea South East |
51 |
||
St Martin's |
13 |
||
Vange |
5 |
||
Wickford Castledon |
-70 |
||
Wickford North |
76 |
||
Wickford Park |
3 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bocking Blackwater |
10 |
||
Bocking North |
10 |
||
Bocking South |
27 |
||
Braintree Central & Beckers Green |
14 |
||
Braintree South |
-4 |
||
Braintree West |
6 |
||
Bumpstead |
-1 |
||
Coggeshall |
10 |
||
Gosfield & Greenstead Green |
0 |
||
Great Notley & Black Notley |
27 |
||
Halstead St Andrew's |
11 |
||
Halstead Trinity |
3 |
||
Hatfield Peverel & Terling |
17 |
||
Hedingham |
18 |
||
Kelvedon & Feering |
40 |
||
Rayne |
4 |
||
Silver End & Cressing |
8 |
||
Stour Valley North |
10 |
||
Stour Valley South |
0 |
||
The Colnes |
-1 |
||
Three Fields |
2 |
||
Witham Central |
17 |
||
Witham North |
-7 |
||
Witham South |
17 |
||
Witham West |
3 |
||
Yeldham |
-8 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Brentwood North |
55 |
||
Brentwood South |
37 |
||
Brentwood West |
50 |
||
Brizes and Doddinghurst |
22 |
||
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon |
17 |
||
Hutton Central |
3 |
||
Hutton East |
9 |
||
Hutton North |
-2 |
||
Hutton South |
4 |
||
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing |
23 |
||
Pilgrims Hatch |
-4 |
||
Shenfield |
37 |
||
South Weald |
5 |
||
Tipps Cross |
12 |
||
Warley |
-104 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Appleton |
9 |
||
Boyce |
-2 |
||
Canvey Island Central |
45 |
||
Canvey Island East |
21 |
||
Canvey Island North |
5 |
||
Canvey Island South |
17 |
||
Canvey Island West |
-4 |
||
Canvey Island Winter Gardens |
4 |
||
Cedar Hall |
19 |
||
St George's |
21 |
||
St James |
24 |
||
St Mary's |
-34 |
||
St Peter's |
-14 |
||
Victoria |
39 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield |
3 |
||
Boreham and The Leighs |
15 |
||
Broomfield and The Walthams |
24 |
||
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park |
47 |
||
Chelmsford Rural West |
12 |
||
Galleywood |
-10 |
||
Goat Hall |
10 |
||
Great Baddow East |
40 |
||
Great Baddow West |
-1 |
||
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon |
15 |
||
Marconi |
-37 |
||
Moulsham and Central |
104 |
||
Moulsham Lodge |
12 |
||
Patching Hall |
29 |
||
Rettendon and Runwell |
11 |
||
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting |
15 |
||
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood |
-3 |
||
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville |
20 |
||
Springfield North |
6 |
||
St Andrews |
6 |
||
The Lawns |
-5 |
||
Trinity |
14 |
||
Waterhouse Farm |
3 |
||
Writtle |
-5 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Berechurch |
15 |
||
Birch and Winstree |
17 |
||
Castle |
-37 |
||
Christ Church |
24 |
||
Copford and West Stanway |
-9 |
||
Dedham and Langham |
19 |
||
East Donyland |
10 |
||
Fordham and Stour |
13 |
||
Great Tey |
23 |
||
Highwoods |
40 |
||
Lexden |
17 |
||
Marks Tey |
9 |
||
Mile End |
27 |
||
New Town |
28 |
||
Old Heath |
22 |
||
Prettygate |
2 |
||
Pyefleet |
-7 |
||
Shrub End |
11 |
||
St Andrew's |
5 |
||
St Anne's |
16 |
||
St John's |
-3 |
||
Stanway |
21 |
||
Tiptree |
8 |
||
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green |
9 |
||
West Mersea |
-6 |
||
Wivenhoe Cross |
6 |
||
Wivenhoe Quay |
10 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
#N A |
0 |
||
Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing |
7 |
||
Buckhurst Hill East |
5 |
||
Buckhurst Hill West |
4 |
||
Chigwell Row |
0 |
||
Chigwell Village |
28 |
||
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash |
10 |
||
Epping Hemnall |
8 |
||
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common |
24 |
||
Grange Hill |
12 |
||
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village |
16 |
||
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings |
-3 |
||
Lambourne |
4 |
||
Loughton Alderton |
21 |
||
Loughton Broadway |
8 |
||
Loughton Fairmead |
15 |
||
Loughton Forest |
50 |
||
Loughton Roding |
7 |
||
Loughton St John's |
19 |
||
Loughton St Mary's |
-35 |
||
Lower Nazeing |
2 |
||
Lower Sheering |
33 |
||
Moreton and Fyfield |
1 |
||
North Weald Bassett |
5 |
||
Passingford |
7 |
||
Roydon |
-3 |
||
Shelley |
7 |
||
Theydon Bois |
0 |
||
Waltham Abbey High Beach |
15 |
||
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane |
13 |
||
Waltham Abbey North East |
35 |
||
Waltham Abbey Paternoster |
19 |
||
Waltham Abbey South West |
66 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bush Fair |
7 |
||
Church Langley |
14 |
||
Great Parndon |
11 |
||
Harlow Common |
3 |
||
Hunsdon |
2 |
||
Little Parndon and Hare Street |
15 |
||
Mark Hall |
6 |
||
Netteswell |
16 |
||
Old Harlow |
26 |
||
Staple Tye |
18 |
||
Sumners and Kingsmoor |
30 |
||
Toddbrook |
47 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Althorne |
10 |
||
Burnham-on-Crouch North |
8 |
||
Burnham-on-Crouch South |
3 |
||
Great Totham |
15 |
||
Heybridge East |
4 |
||
Heybridge West |
15 |
||
Maldon East |
-3 |
||
Maldon North |
0 |
||
Maldon South |
-2 |
||
Maldon West |
50 |
||
Mayland |
9 |
||
Purleigh |
3 |
||
Silver End & Cressing |
8 |
||
Southminster |
2 |
||
Tillingham |
7 |
||
Tollesbury |
0 |
||
Tolleshunt D'Arcy |
7 |
||
Wickham Bishops and Woodham |
22 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Ashingdon and Canewdon |
-6 |
||
Barling and Sutton |
4 |
||
Downhall and Rawreth |
-15 |
||
Foulness and Great Wakering |
6 |
||
Grange |
10 |
||
Hawkwell North |
-1 |
||
Hawkwell South |
11 |
||
Hawkwell West |
6 |
||
Hockley Central |
7 |
||
Hockley North |
0 |
||
Hockley West |
-11 |
||
Hullbridge |
0 |
||
Lodge |
4 |
||
Rayleigh Central |
2 |
||
Rochford |
18 |
||
Sweyne Park |
11 |
||
Trinity |
14 |
||
Wheatley |
53 |
||
Whitehouse |
9 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Belfairs |
31 |
||
Blenheim Park |
23 |
||
Chalkwell |
38 |
||
Eastwood Park |
19 |
||
Kursaal |
-280 |
||
Leigh |
72 |
||
Milton |
67 |
||
Prittlewell |
16 |
||
Shoeburyness |
-2 |
||
Southchurch |
12 |
||
St Laurence |
-5 |
||
St. Luke's |
26 |
||
Thorpe |
13 |
||
Victoria |
39 |
||
West Leigh |
67 |
||
West Shoebury |
2 |
||
Westborough |
32 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Alresford |
0 |
||
Alton Park |
4 |
||
Ardleigh and Little Bromley |
4 |
||
Beaumont and Thorpe |
-5 |
||
Bockings Elm |
-2 |
||
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix |
12 |
||
Brightlingsea |
9 |
||
Burrsville |
11 |
||
Frinton |
-22 |
||
Golf Green |
-4 |
||
Great and Little Oakley |
3 |
||
Great Bentley |
-2 |
||
Hamford |
3 |
||
Harwich East |
20 |
||
Harwich East Central |
-3 |
||
Harwich West |
-1 |
||
Harwich West Central |
6 |
||
Haven |
7 |
||
Holland and Kirby |
-2 |
||
Homelands |
1 |
||
Lawford |
1 |
||
Little Clacton and Weeley |
4 |
||
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring |
6 |
||
Peter Bruff |
-6 |
||
Pier |
48 |
||
Ramsey and Parkeston |
9 |
||
Rush Green |
2 |
||
St Bartholomews |
4 |
||
St James |
24 |
||
St Johns |
2 |
||
St Marys |
-5 |
||
St Osyth and Point Clear |
1 |
||
St Pauls |
9 |
||
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley |
24 |
||
Walton |
3 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Aveley and Uplands |
14 |
||
Belhus |
46 |
||
Chadwell St Mary |
-1 |
||
Chafford and North Stifford |
28 |
||
Corringham and Fobbing |
-4 |
||
East Tilbury |
4 |
||
Grays Riverside |
36 |
||
Grays Thurrock |
38 |
||
Little Thurrock Blackshots |
21 |
||
Little Thurrock Rectory |
38 |
||
Ockendon |
32 |
||
Orsett |
37 |
||
South Chafford |
21 |
||
Stanford East and Corringham Town |
5 |
||
Stanford-le-Hope West |
48 |
||
Stifford Clays |
14 |
||
The Homesteads |
16 |
||
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park |
16 |
||
Tilbury St Chads |
-9 |
||
West Thurrock and South Stifford |
75 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Ashdon |
1 |
||
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys |
11 |
||
Clavering |
-1 |
||
Debden & Wimbish |
0 |
||
Elsenham & Henham |
9 |
||
Felsted & Stebbing |
19 |
||
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow |
2 |
||
Great Dunmow North |
6 |
||
Great Dunmow South & Barnston |
1 |
||
Hatfield Heath |
5 |
||
High Easter & the Rodings |
2 |
||
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts |
3 |
||
Newport |
12 |
||
Saffron Walden Audley |
29 |
||
Saffron Walden Castle |
5 |
||
Saffron Walden Shire |
0 |
||
Stansted North |
6 |
||
Stansted South & Birchanger |
-3 |
||
Stort Valley |
2 |
||
Takeley |
48 |
||
Thaxted & the Eastons |
2 |
||
The Sampfords |
1 |
The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2017 and how Essex compares to them.
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st
2016: 1st
|
London |
1,114,699 |
2nd
2016: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
177,360 |
3rd
2016: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
159,647 |
4th
2016: 4th
|
Essex |
116,669 |
5th
2016: 5th
|
West Yorkshire |
113,471 |
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st
2016: 1st
|
London |
1,114,699 |
4th
2016: 4th
|
Essex |
116,669 |
7th
2016: 6th
|
Hertfordshire |
105,506 |
8th
2016: 8th
|
Kent |
105,182 |
27th
2016: 28th
|
Cambridgeshire |
46,059 |
37th
2016: 37th
|
Suffolk |
33,994 |
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st 2016: 1st
|
London |
1,114,699 |
2nd 2016: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
177,360 |
3rd 2016: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
159,647 |
4th 2016: 4th
|
Essex |
116,669 |
5th 2016: 5th
|
West Yorkshire |
113,471 |
6th 2016: 7th
|
Hampshire |
106,588 |
7th 2016: 6th
|
Hertfordshire |
105,506 |
8th 2016: 8th
|
Kent |
105,182 |
9th 2016: 9th
|
Surrey |
96,847 |
10th 2016: 10th
|
Cheshire |
76,254 |
11th 2016: 11th
|
Lancashire |
71,294 |
12th 2016: 12th
|
Berkshire |
66,738 |
13th 2016: 13th
|
East Sussex |
64,805 |
14th 2016: 14th
|
Buckinghamshire |
64,538 |
15th 2016: 15th
|
Merseyside |
63,781 |
16th 2016: 17th
|
Leicestershire |
57,830 |
17th 2016: 16th
|
South Yorkshire |
56,932 |
18th 2016: 18th
|
Dorset |
52,411 |
19th 2016: 20th
|
North Yorkshire |
50,798 |
20th 2016: 19th
|
West Sussex |
49,845 |
21st 2016: 21st
|
Gloucestershire |
49,129 |
22nd 2016: 22nd
|
Devon |
48,848 |
23rd 2016: 23rd
|
Staffordshire |
47,930 |
24th 2016: 24th
|
Somerset |
47,912 |
25th 2016: 25th
|
Nottinghamshire |
47,771 |
26th 2016: 31st
|
Northamptonshire |
46,778 |
27th 2016: 28th
|
Cambridgeshire |
46,059 |
28th 2016: 27th
|
Derbyshire |
44,849 |
29th 2016: 30th
|
Lincolnshire |
41,976 |
30th 2016: 32nd
|
Tyne and Wear |
40,273 |
31st 2016: 33rd
|
Oxfordshire |
39,736 |
32nd 2016: 26th
|
Bedfordshire |
38,894 |
33rd 2016: 36th
|
Worcestershire |
38,764 |
34th 2016: 29th
|
Wiltshire |
36,977 |
35th 2016: 34th
|
Norfolk |
36,459 |
36th 2016: 35th
|
Warwickshire |
35,844 |
37th 2016: 37th
|
Suffolk |
33,994 |
38th 2016: 38th
|
Bristol |
32,106 |
39th 2016: 39th
|
Durham |
26,562 |
40th 2016: 40th
|
East Riding of Yorkshire |
25,585 |
41st 2016: 41st
|
Shropshire |
21,473 |
42nd 2016: 43rd
|
Cornwall |
20,746 |
43rd 2016: 42nd
|
Cumbria |
20,316 |
44th 2016: 44th
|
Northumberland |
10,100 |
45th 2016: 45th
|
Herefordshire |
8,627 |
46th 2016: 46th
|
Isle of Wight |
5,125 |
47th 2016: 47th
|
Rutland |
1,797 |
67.5
65.1
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.
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
2017
15,922 formed
12,534 dissolved
Overall growth compared to previous year
5.3% vs 2013
7% vs 2014
3.9% vs 2015
4.1% vs 2016