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Company Formations in 2017: Essex

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4.1% more companies in Essex compared to 2016

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 1,887
  • BBraintree: 931
  • CBrentwood: 893
  • DCastle Point: 689
  • EChelmsford: 1,551
  • FColchester: 1,438
  • GEpping Forest: 1,724
  • HHarlow: 703
  • IMaldon: 498
  • JRochford: 573
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 1,972
  • LTendring: 633
  • MThurrock: 1,695
  • NUttlesford: 728

Companies formed in 2017 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 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
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County
No. Companies formed
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
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

New incorporations in 2017 per 1000 Man standing people

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

98% Private Limited Companies (15,571 companies)

2% Other company types (351 companies)

Other company types breakdown (351 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2017

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2017

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2017

meaning there is a total of

116,669

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2017.

4.1% more companies in Essex compared to 2016

Surrounding counties 2017 breakdown & comparison

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

SuffolkCambridgeshireEssexHertfordshireLondonKent

Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
129
283
154
Billericay West
123
152
29
Burstead
66
44
-22
Crouch
42
73
31
Fryerns
223
311
88
Laindon Park
82
132
50
Langdon Hills
36
48
12
Lee Chapel North
69
67
-2
Nethermayne
67
65
-2
Pitsea North West
73
131
58
Pitsea South East
62
113
51
St Martin's
83
96
13
Vange
41
46
5
Wickford Castledon
131
61
-70
Wickford North
124
200
76
Wickford Park
62
65
3
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
29
39
10
Bocking North
15
25
10
Bocking South
34
61
27
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
107
121
14
Braintree South
16
12
-4
Braintree West
23
29
6
Bumpstead
9
8
-1
Coggeshall
26
36
10
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
7
7
0
Great Notley & Black Notley
45
72
27
Halstead St Andrew's
18
29
11
Halstead Trinity
21
24
3
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
22
39
17
Hedingham
35
53
18
Kelvedon & Feering
46
86
40
Rayne
11
15
4
Silver End & Cressing
14
22
8
Stour Valley North
12
22
10
Stour Valley South
10
10
0
The Colnes
24
23
-1
Three Fields
28
30
2
Witham Central
69
86
17
Witham North
24
17
-7
Witham South
27
44
17
Witham West
13
16
3
Yeldham
13
5
-8
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
58
113
55
Brentwood South
131
168
37
Brentwood West
83
133
50
Brizes and Doddinghurst
25
47
22
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
29
46
17
Hutton Central
18
21
3
Hutton East
9
18
9
Hutton North
19
17
-2
Hutton South
17
21
4
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
42
65
23
Pilgrims Hatch
45
41
-4
Shenfield
41
78
37
South Weald
16
21
5
Tipps Cross
12
24
12
Warley
184
80
-104
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
21
30
9
Boyce
23
21
-2
Canvey Island Central
49
94
45
Canvey Island East
15
36
21
Canvey Island North
20
25
5
Canvey Island South
39
56
17
Canvey Island West
26
22
-4
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
19
23
4
Cedar Hall
31
50
19
St George's
17
38
21
St James
104
128
24
St Mary's
113
79
-34
St Peter's
52
38
-14
Victoria
156
195
39
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
19
22
3
Boreham and The Leighs
28
43
15
Broomfield and The Walthams
37
61
24
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
58
105
47
Chelmsford Rural West
15
27
12
Galleywood
25
15
-10
Goat Hall
17
27
10
Great Baddow East
41
81
40
Great Baddow West
26
25
-1
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
32
47
15
Marconi
225
188
-37
Moulsham and Central
291
395
104
Moulsham Lodge
20
32
12
Patching Hall
19
48
29
Rettendon and Runwell
15
26
11
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
35
50
15
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
28
25
-3
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
75
95
20
Springfield North
24
30
6
St Andrews
31
37
6
The Lawns
34
29
-5
Trinity
55
69
14
Waterhouse Farm
51
54
3
Writtle
44
39
-5
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
31
46
15
Birch and Winstree
14
31
17
Castle
297
260
-37
Christ Church
61
85
24
Copford and West Stanway
22
13
-9
Dedham and Langham
73
92
19
East Donyland
9
19
10
Fordham and Stour
37
50
13
Great Tey
16
39
23
Highwoods
71
111
40
Lexden
18
35
17
Marks Tey
9
18
9
Mile End
51
78
27
New Town
53
81
28
Old Heath
34
56
22
Prettygate
19
21
2
Pyefleet
18
11
-7
Shrub End
35
46
11
St Andrew's
61
66
5
St Anne's
32
48
16
St John's
15
12
-3
Stanway
36
57
21
Tiptree
31
39
8
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
31
40
9
West Mersea
36
30
-6
Wivenhoe Cross
5
11
6
Wivenhoe Quay
33
43
10
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
20
27
7
Buckhurst Hill East
24
29
5
Buckhurst Hill West
118
122
4
Chigwell Row
13
13
0
Chigwell Village
24
52
28
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
27
37
10
Epping Hemnall
62
70
8
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
72
96
24
Grange Hill
63
75
12
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
13
29
16
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
18
15
-3
Lambourne
14
18
4
Loughton Alderton
27
48
21
Loughton Broadway
115
123
8
Loughton Fairmead
19
34
15
Loughton Forest
176
226
50
Loughton Roding
18
25
7
Loughton St John's
39
58
19
Loughton St Mary's
107
72
-35
Lower Nazeing
31
33
2
Lower Sheering
28
61
33
Moreton and Fyfield
14
15
1
North Weald Bassett
28
33
5
Passingford
17
24
7
Roydon
17
14
-3
Shelley
8
15
7
Theydon Bois
28
28
0
Waltham Abbey High Beach
16
31
15
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
28
41
13
Waltham Abbey North East
35
70
35
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
16
35
19
Waltham Abbey South West
89
155
66
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
31
38
7
Church Langley
33
47
14
Great Parndon
23
34
11
Harlow Common
24
27
3
Hunsdon
2
2
Little Parndon and Hare Street
73
88
15
Mark Hall
53
59
6
Netteswell
35
51
16
Old Harlow
93
119
26
Staple Tye
36
54
18
Sumners and Kingsmoor
27
57
30
Toddbrook
80
127
47
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
17
27
10
Burnham-on-Crouch North
17
25
8
Burnham-on-Crouch South
34
37
3
Great Totham
25
40
15
Heybridge East
9
13
4
Heybridge West
15
30
15
Maldon East
7
4
-3
Maldon North
77
77
0
Maldon South
8
6
-2
Maldon West
16
66
50
Mayland
14
23
9
Purleigh
20
23
3
Silver End & Cressing
14
22
8
Southminster
14
16
2
Tillingham
5
12
7
Tollesbury
5
5
0
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
33
40
7
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
32
54
22
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
14
8
-6
Barling and Sutton
8
12
4
Downhall and Rawreth
45
30
-15
Foulness and Great Wakering
15
21
6
Grange
9
19
10
Hawkwell North
9
8
-1
Hawkwell South
11
22
11
Hawkwell West
30
36
6
Hockley Central
35
42
7
Hockley North
5
5
0
Hockley West
13
2
-11
Hullbridge
23
23
0
Lodge
7
11
4
Rayleigh Central
9
11
2
Rochford
118
136
18
Sweyne Park
8
19
11
Trinity
55
69
14
Wheatley
78
131
53
Whitehouse
9
18
9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
43
74
31
Blenheim Park
63
86
23
Chalkwell
92
130
38
Eastwood Park
49
68
19
Kursaal
363
83
-280
Leigh
87
159
72
Milton
451
518
67
Prittlewell
38
54
16
Shoeburyness
59
57
-2
Southchurch
34
46
12
St Laurence
27
22
-5
St. Luke's
77
103
26
Thorpe
31
44
13
Victoria
156
195
39
West Leigh
167
234
67
West Shoebury
31
33
2
Westborough
96
128
32
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
6
6
0
Alton Park
7
11
4
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
24
28
4
Beaumont and Thorpe
15
10
-5
Bockings Elm
16
14
-2
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
7
19
12
Brightlingsea
29
38
9
Burrsville
15
26
11
Frinton
45
23
-22
Golf Green
12
8
-4
Great and Little Oakley
8
11
3
Great Bentley
10
8
-2
Hamford
3
6
3
Harwich East
13
33
20
Harwich East Central
20
17
-3
Harwich West
10
9
-1
Harwich West Central
11
17
6
Haven
3
10
7
Holland and Kirby
13
11
-2
Homelands
1
2
1
Lawford
10
11
1
Little Clacton and Weeley
12
16
4
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
16
22
6
Peter Bruff
9
3
-6
Pier
35
83
48
Ramsey and Parkeston
4
13
9
Rush Green
7
9
2
St Bartholomews
7
11
4
St James
104
128
24
St Johns
8
10
2
St Marys
14
9
-5
St Osyth and Point Clear
19
20
1
St Pauls
11
20
9
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
39
63
24
Walton
20
23
3
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
52
66
14
Belhus
50
96
46
Chadwell St Mary
56
55
-1
Chafford and North Stifford
51
79
28
Corringham and Fobbing
32
28
-4
East Tilbury
28
32
4
Grays Riverside
129
165
36
Grays Thurrock
77
115
38
Little Thurrock Blackshots
22
43
21
Little Thurrock Rectory
69
107
38
Ockendon
48
80
32
Orsett
35
72
37
South Chafford
86
107
21
Stanford East and Corringham Town
34
39
5
Stanford-le-Hope West
140
188
48
Stifford Clays
13
27
14
The Homesteads
22
38
16
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
85
101
16
Tilbury St Chads
40
31
-9
West Thurrock and South Stifford
151
226
75
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
6
7
1
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
23
34
11
Clavering
11
10
-1
Debden & Wimbish
10
10
0
Elsenham & Henham
15
24
9
Felsted & Stebbing
8
27
19
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
13
15
2
Great Dunmow North
12
18
6
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
65
66
1
Hatfield Heath
16
21
5
High Easter & the Rodings
6
8
2
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
48
51
3
Newport
19
31
12
Saffron Walden Audley
119
148
29
Saffron Walden Castle
14
19
5
Saffron Walden Shire
21
21
0
Stansted North
20
26
6
Stansted South & Birchanger
30
27
-3
Stort Valley
7
9
2
Takeley
41
89
48
Thaxted & the Eastons
50
52
2
The Sampfords
14
15
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Total companies 2017 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2017 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
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
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
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

Total companies at the end of 2017 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.

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