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Company Formations in 2018: Essex

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???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2018

4.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2017

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 1,849
  • BBraintree: 1,016
  • CBrentwood: 923
  • DCastle Point: 800
  • EChelmsford: 1,625
  • FColchester: 1,502
  • GEpping Forest: 1,783
  • HHarlow: 901
  • IMaldon: 492
  • JRochford: 586
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 2,125
  • LTendring: 705
  • MThurrock: 1,963
  • NUttlesford: 779

Companies formed in 2018 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 2017: 1st
London
217,617
2nd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
32,571
3rd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
31,875
4th 2017: 4th
West Yorkshire
18,204
5th 2017: 5th
Essex
17,063
Rank
County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2017: 1st
London
217,617
5th 2017: 5th
Essex
17,063
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
15,554
7th 2017: 6th
Kent
15,057
24th 2017: 25th
Cambridgeshire
6,786
37th 2017: 38th
Norfolk
4,542
39th 2017: 39th
Suffolk
4,292
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2017: 1st
London
217,617
2nd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
32,571
3rd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
31,875
4th 2017: 4th
West Yorkshire
18,204
5th 2017: 5th
Essex
17,063
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
15,554
7th 2017: 6th
Kent
15,057
8th 2017: 8th
Hampshire
14,244
9th 2017: 9th
Cheshire
13,259
10th 2017: 10th
Merseyside
11,451
11th 2017: 12th
Lancashire
11,291
12th 2017: 11th
Surrey
11,179
13th 2017: 15th
Berkshire
9,166
14th 2017: 17th
Buckinghamshire
8,915
15th 2017: 13th
Leicestershire
8,896
16th 2017: 16th
South Yorkshire
8,542
17th 2017: 20th
Dorset
8,314
18th 2017: 14th
Northamptonshire
7,630
19th 2017: 19th
East Sussex
7,462
20th 2017: 21st
Nottinghamshire
7,429
21st 2017: 23rd
Bedfordshire
7,013
22nd 2017: 18th
Worcestershire
6,889
23rd 2017: 22nd
North Yorkshire
6,822
24th 2017: 25th
Cambridgeshire
6,786
25th 2017: 26th
Tyne and Wear
6,669
26th 2017: 24th
Staffordshire
6,474
27th 2017: 27th
Derbyshire
6,167
28th 2017: 29th
West Sussex
6,048
29th 2017: 31st
Lincolnshire
5,910
30th 2017: 28th
Devon
5,908
31st 2017: 30th
Gloucestershire
5,719
32nd 2017: 32nd
Somerset
5,537
33rd 2017: 40th
Durham
5,223
34th 2017: 36th
Warwickshire
4,755
35th 2017: 34th
Bristol
4,635
36th 2017: 37th
Oxfordshire
4,631
37th 2017: 38th
Norfolk
4,542
38th 2017: 33rd
Wiltshire
4,348
39th 2017: 39th
Suffolk
4,292
40th 2017: 35th
East Riding of Yorkshire
3,195
41st 2017: 41st
Cornwall
2,829
42nd 2017: 42nd
Shropshire
2,634
43rd 2017: 43rd
Cumbria
2,259
44th 2017: 44th
Northumberland
1,422
45th 2017: 45th
Herefordshire
1,054
46th 2017: 46th
Isle of Wight
645
47th 2017: 47th
Rutland
198

New incorporations in 2018 per 1000 Man standing people

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9.9

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

98% Private Limited Companies (16,690 companies)

2% Other company types (373 companies)

Other company types breakdown (373 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2018

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2018

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2018

meaning there is a total of

122,421

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2018.

4.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2017

Surrounding counties 2018 breakdown & comparison

Cambridgeshire

48,390 total businesses
6,786 formed in 2018
4,809 dissolved in 2018

Hertfordshire

111,063 total businesses
15,554 formed in 2018
12,657 dissolved in 2018

Kent

108,910 total businesses
15,057 formed in 2018
11,568 dissolved in 2018

Norfolk

37,466 total businesses
4,542 formed in 2018
3,991 dissolved in 2018

Suffolk

35,510 total businesses
4,292 formed in 2018
3,166 dissolved in 2018

London

1,163,777 total businesses
217,617 formed in 2018
155,611 dissolved in 2018

Essex

122,421 total businesses
17,063 formed in 2018
13,119 dissolved in 2018

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
159
257
98
Billericay West
125
139
14
Burstead
35
68
33
Crouch
38
71
33
Fryerns
227
365
138
Laindon Park
76
106
30
Langdon Hills
60
38
-22
Lee Chapel North
60
65
5
Nethermayne
59
72
13
Pitsea North West
71
89
18
Pitsea South East
85
95
10
St Martin's
91
92
1
Vange
31
56
25
Wickford Castledon
100
55
-45
Wickford North
151
213
62
Wickford Park
62
68
6
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
35
47
12
Bocking North
23
31
8
Bocking South
49
46
-3
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
119
156
37
Braintree South
14
19
5
Braintree West
20
25
5
Bumpstead
8
23
15
Coggeshall
36
30
-6
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
9
9
0
Great Notley & Black Notley
42
51
9
Halstead St Andrew's
32
48
16
Halstead Trinity
27
35
8
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
21
28
7
Hedingham
22
61
39
Kelvedon & Feering
44
59
15
Rayne
11
11
0
Silver End & Cressing
13
21
8
Stour Valley North
15
17
2
Stour Valley South
8
8
0
The Colnes
21
43
22
Three Fields
16
27
11
Witham Central
85
91
6
Witham North
14
31
17
Witham South
18
62
44
Witham West
14
19
5
Yeldham
6
18
12
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
54
124
70
Brentwood South
133
130
-3
Brentwood West
89
142
53
Brizes and Doddinghurst
43
46
3
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
55
42
-13
Hutton Central
14
24
10
Hutton East
18
19
1
Hutton North
28
37
9
Hutton South
17
34
17
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
41
75
34
Pilgrims Hatch
41
44
3
Shenfield
51
60
9
South Weald
17
33
16
Tipps Cross
20
19
-1
Warley
212
94
-118
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
22
29
7
Boyce
8
28
20
Canvey Island Central
48
103
55
Canvey Island East
21
33
12
Canvey Island North
24
27
3
Canvey Island South
33
70
37
Canvey Island West
27
41
14
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
13
25
12
Cedar Hall
42
62
20
St George's
20
33
13
St James
125
126
1
St Mary's
72
85
13
St Peter's
25
67
42
Victoria
214
248
34
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
15
30
15
Boreham and The Leighs
23
37
14
Broomfield and The Walthams
36
93
57
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
51
85
34
Chelmsford Rural West
16
21
5
Galleywood
14
24
10
Goat Hall
22
37
15
Great Baddow East
55
78
23
Great Baddow West
25
35
10
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
26
56
30
Marconi
183
178
-5
Moulsham and Central
350
359
9
Moulsham Lodge
24
15
-9
Patching Hall
38
58
20
Rettendon and Runwell
21
26
5
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
32
53
21
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
23
47
24
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
60
101
41
Springfield North
39
39
0
St Andrews
23
35
12
The Lawns
20
29
9
Trinity
60
60
0
Waterhouse Farm
45
85
40
Writtle
29
59
30
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
36
36
0
Birch and Winstree
27
36
9
Castle
245
335
90
Christ Church
68
83
15
Copford and West Stanway
16
35
19
Dedham and Langham
80
88
8
East Donyland
7
8
1
Fordham and Stour
27
36
9
Great Tey
23
32
9
Highwoods
65
97
32
Lexden
18
43
25
Marks Tey
13
12
-1
Mile End
72
83
11
New Town
56
89
33
Old Heath
40
51
11
Prettygate
11
32
21
Pyefleet
9
11
2
Shrub End
41
48
7
St Andrew's
44
48
4
St Anne's
45
33
-12
St John's
10
14
4
Stanway
48
51
3
Tiptree
23
65
42
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
27
38
11
West Mersea
30
34
4
Wivenhoe Cross
1
16
15
Wivenhoe Quay
35
48
13
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
24
19
-5
Buckhurst Hill East
21
39
18
Buckhurst Hill West
105
103
-2
Chigwell Row
16
16
0
Chigwell Village
34
47
13
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
36
39
3
Epping Hemnall
60
54
-6
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
66
117
51
Grange Hill
76
107
31
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
22
18
-4
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
18
26
8
Lambourne
13
19
6
Loughton Alderton
44
61
17
Loughton Broadway
57
95
38
Loughton Fairmead
26
26
0
Loughton Forest
187
266
79
Loughton Roding
16
29
13
Loughton St John's
48
62
14
Loughton St Mary's
154
64
-90
Lower Nazeing
25
36
11
Lower Sheering
43
65
22
Moreton and Fyfield
14
17
3
North Weald Bassett
38
46
8
Passingford
17
28
11
Roydon
16
19
3
Shelley
8
12
4
Theydon Bois
39
41
2
Waltham Abbey High Beach
22
26
4
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
38
41
3
Waltham Abbey North East
46
59
13
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
23
40
17
Waltham Abbey South West
99
146
47
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
21
41
20
Church Langley
36
110
74
Great Parndon
20
28
8
Harlow Common
29
42
13
Hunsdon
0
0
Little Parndon and Hare Street
100
123
23
Mark Hall
73
140
67
Netteswell
41
70
29
Old Harlow
94
129
35
Staple Tye
40
44
4
Sumners and Kingsmoor
46
49
3
Toddbrook
114
125
11
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
20
22
2
Burnham-on-Crouch North
12
19
7
Burnham-on-Crouch South
40
31
-9
Great Totham
33
33
0
Heybridge East
5
11
6
Heybridge West
20
39
19
Maldon East
4
11
7
Maldon North
60
95
35
Maldon South
8
16
8
Maldon West
41
54
13
Mayland
19
37
18
Purleigh
10
15
5
Silver End & Cressing
13
21
8
Southminster
13
19
6
Tillingham
7
9
2
Tollesbury
8
7
-1
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
21
41
20
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
24
33
9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
9
9
0
Barling and Sutton
10
11
1
Downhall and Rawreth
27
43
16
Foulness and Great Wakering
10
21
11
Grange
18
16
-2
Hawkwell North
11
16
5
Hawkwell South
14
14
0
Hawkwell West
29
42
13
Hockley Central
44
30
-14
Hockley North
3
4
1
Hockley West
9
5
-4
Hullbridge
22
29
7
Lodge
11
10
-1
Rayleigh Central
14
7
-7
Rochford
136
138
2
Sweyne Park
14
19
5
Trinity
60
60
0
Wheatley
98
123
25
Whitehouse
9
34
25
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
56
62
6
Blenheim Park
68
115
47
Chalkwell
87
141
54
Eastwood Park
54
80
26
Kursaal
259
101
-158
Leigh
120
217
97
Milton
478
443
-35
Prittlewell
47
61
14
Shoeburyness
40
72
32
Southchurch
39
45
6
St Laurence
18
36
18
St. Luke's
95
98
3
Thorpe
42
55
13
Victoria
214
248
34
West Leigh
185
261
76
West Shoebury
33
45
12
Westborough
111
131
20
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
7
12
5
Alton Park
11
10
-1
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
16
36
20
Beaumont and Thorpe
20
19
-1
Bockings Elm
9
18
9
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
5
7
2
Brightlingsea
35
30
-5
Burrsville
22
29
7
Frinton
18
27
9
Golf Green
5
8
3
Great and Little Oakley
10
10
0
Great Bentley
9
12
3
Hamford
4
6
2
Harwich East
13
24
11
Harwich East Central
30
34
4
Harwich West
3
13
10
Harwich West Central
7
11
4
Haven
5
9
4
Holland and Kirby
12
12
0
Homelands
1
2
1
Lawford
9
13
4
Little Clacton and Weeley
10
16
6
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
9
31
22
Peter Bruff
3
16
13
Pier
49
73
24
Ramsey and Parkeston
9
11
2
Rush Green
13
18
5
St Bartholomews
5
15
10
St James
125
126
1
St Johns
11
11
0
St Marys
17
15
-2
St Osyth and Point Clear
18
29
11
St Pauls
10
15
5
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
51
71
20
Walton
36
27
-9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
66
87
21
Belhus
65
88
23
Chadwell St Mary
48
62
14
Chafford and North Stifford
74
82
8
Corringham and Fobbing
19
37
18
East Tilbury
27
43
16
Grays Riverside
142
280
138
Grays Thurrock
100
112
12
Little Thurrock Blackshots
29
61
32
Little Thurrock Rectory
80
83
3
Ockendon
60
84
24
Orsett
46
69
23
South Chafford
67
130
63
Stanford East and Corringham Town
32
41
9
Stanford-le-Hope West
130
234
104
Stifford Clays
30
37
7
The Homesteads
29
28
-1
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
81
97
16
Tilbury St Chads
60
54
-6
West Thurrock and South Stifford
150
254
104
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
12
4
-8
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
37
43
6
Clavering
5
14
9
Debden & Wimbish
8
5
-3
Elsenham & Henham
20
21
1
Felsted & Stebbing
15
18
3
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
11
16
5
Great Dunmow North
10
21
11
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
59
95
36
Hatfield Heath
13
10
-3
High Easter & the Rodings
14
19
5
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
65
79
14
Newport
22
27
5
Saffron Walden Audley
120
132
12
Saffron Walden Castle
14
8
-6
Saffron Walden Shire
24
29
5
Stansted North
36
65
29
Stansted South & Birchanger
35
25
-10
Stort Valley
5
10
5
Takeley
44
75
31
Thaxted & the Eastons
40
49
9
The Sampfords
4
14
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Total companies 2018 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2018 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2017: 1st
London
1,163,777
2nd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
184,396
3rd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
167,807
4th 2017: 4th
Essex
122,421
5th 2017: 5th
West Yorkshire
118,705
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2017: 1st
London
1,163,777
4th 2017: 4th
Essex
122,421
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
111,063
8th 2017: 8th
Kent
108,910
26th 2017: 27th
Cambridgeshire
48,390
34th 2017: 35th
Norfolk
37,466
37th 2017: 37th
Suffolk
35,510
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2017: 1st
London
1,163,777
2nd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
184,396
3rd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
167,807
4th 2017: 4th
Essex
122,421
5th 2017: 5th
West Yorkshire
118,705
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
111,063
7th 2017: 6th
Hampshire
110,793
8th 2017: 8th
Kent
108,910
9th 2017: 9th
Surrey
98,968
10th 2017: 10th
Cheshire
78,274
11th 2017: 11th
Lancashire
75,763
12th 2017: 14th
Buckinghamshire
69,301
13th 2017: 12th
Berkshire
68,855
14th 2017: 13th
East Sussex
66,405
15th 2017: 15th
Merseyside
65,551
16th 2017: 16th
Leicestershire
60,027
17th 2017: 17th
South Yorkshire
58,193
18th 2017: 18th
Dorset
56,307
19th 2017: 19th
North Yorkshire
52,860
20th 2017: 20th
West Sussex
51,556
21st 2017: 22nd
Devon
51,129
22nd 2017: 21st
Gloucestershire
50,643
23rd 2017: 25th
Nottinghamshire
50,491
24th 2017: 24th
Somerset
49,396
25th 2017: 23rd
Staffordshire
48,752
26th 2017: 27th
Cambridgeshire
48,390
27th 2017: 28th
Derbyshire
46,632
28th 2017: 26th
Northamptonshire
44,212
29th 2017: 29th
Lincolnshire
43,713
30th 2017: 30th
Tyne and Wear
42,534
31st 2017: 32nd
Bedfordshire
42,015
32nd 2017: 31st
Oxfordshire
40,930
33rd 2017: 33rd
Worcestershire
37,800
34th 2017: 35th
Norfolk
37,466
35th 2017: 36th
Warwickshire
37,025
36th 2017: 34th
Wiltshire
36,714
37th 2017: 37th
Suffolk
35,510
38th 2017: 38th
Bristol
32,794
39th 2017: 39th
Durham
28,771
40th 2017: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
24,661
41st 2017: 41st
Shropshire
22,421
42nd 2017: 42nd
Cornwall
21,904
43rd 2017: 43rd
Cumbria
20,916
44th 2017: 44th
Northumberland
10,423
45th 2017: 45th
Herefordshire
9,243
46th 2017: 46th
Isle of Wight
5,417
47th 2017: 47th
Rutland
1,840

Total companies at the end of 2018 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.

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

2018

17,063 formed

13,119 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

7% vs 2014

3.9% vs 2015

4.11% vs 2016

4.9% vs 2017