2015
16,147 formed
10,382 dissolved
???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2019
4.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2018
The counties in England where most companies are formed, and how Essex compares.
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st
2018: 1st
|
London |
222,468 |
2nd
2018: 3rd
|
Greater Manchester |
31,440 |
3rd
2018: 2nd
|
West Midlands |
29,676 |
4th
2018: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
18,752 |
5th
2018: 5th
|
Essex |
17,816 |
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st
2018: 1st
|
London |
222,468 |
5th
2018: 5th
|
Essex |
17,816 |
6th
2018: 7th
|
Kent |
15,963 |
7th
2018: 6th
|
Hertfordshire |
15,231 |
25th
2018: 24th
|
Cambridgeshire |
6,779 |
38th
2018: 39th
|
Suffolk |
4,518 |
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st 2018: 1st
|
London |
222,468 |
2nd 2018: 3rd
|
Greater Manchester |
31,440 |
3rd 2018: 2nd
|
West Midlands |
29,676 |
4th 2018: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
18,752 |
5th 2018: 5th
|
Essex |
17,816 |
6th 2018: 7th
|
Kent |
15,963 |
7th 2018: 6th
|
Hertfordshire |
15,231 |
8th 2018: 8th
|
Hampshire |
15,174 |
9th 2018: 9th
|
Cheshire |
12,221 |
10th 2018: 10th
|
Merseyside |
11,866 |
11th 2018: 11th
|
Lancashire |
11,229 |
12th 2018: 12th
|
Surrey |
11,032 |
13th 2018: 15th
|
Leicestershire |
10,825 |
14th 2018: 22nd
|
Worcestershire |
9,971 |
15th 2018: 16th
|
South Yorkshire |
9,325 |
16th 2018: 13th
|
Berkshire |
9,009 |
17th 2018: 14th
|
Buckinghamshire |
8,835 |
18th 2018: 18th
|
Northamptonshire |
8,393 |
19th 2018: 17th
|
Dorset |
8,020 |
20th 2018: 19th
|
East Sussex |
7,706 |
21st 2018: 20th
|
Nottinghamshire |
7,348 |
22nd 2018: 23rd
|
North Yorkshire |
7,260 |
23rd 2018: 25th
|
Tyne and Wear |
7,132 |
24th 2018: 26th
|
Staffordshire |
6,927 |
25th 2018: 24th
|
Cambridgeshire |
6,779 |
26th 2018: 21st
|
Bedfordshire |
6,766 |
27th 2018: 27th
|
Derbyshire |
6,522 |
28th 2018: 30th
|
Devon |
6,196 |
29th 2018: 28th
|
West Sussex |
6,154 |
30th 2018: 29th
|
Lincolnshire |
6,042 |
31st 2018: 32nd
|
Somerset |
6,041 |
32nd 2018: 31st
|
Gloucestershire |
5,971 |
33rd 2018: 34th
|
Warwickshire |
5,256 |
34th 2018: 36th
|
Oxfordshire |
5,087 |
35th 2018: 35th
|
Bristol |
5,040 |
36th 2018: 37th
|
Norfolk |
4,731 |
37th 2018: 33rd
|
Durham |
4,623 |
38th 2018: 39th
|
Suffolk |
4,518 |
39th 2018: 38th
|
Wiltshire |
4,428 |
40th 2018: 40th
|
East Riding of Yorkshire |
3,258 |
41st 2018: 42nd
|
Shropshire |
3,231 |
42nd 2018: 41st
|
Cornwall |
2,948 |
43rd 2018: 43rd
|
Cumbria |
2,171 |
44th 2018: 44th
|
Northumberland |
1,531 |
45th 2018: 45th
|
Herefordshire |
1,499 |
46th 2018: 46th
|
Isle of Wight |
675 |
47th 2018: 47th
|
Rutland |
230 |
10.3
10.9
97% Private Limited Companies (17,359 companies)
3% Other company types (457 companies)
Other company types breakdown (457 companies)
????
Businesses formed in Essex during 2019
????
Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2019
128,433
businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2019.
4.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2018
Cambridgeshire
50,160 total businesses
6,779 formed in 2019
5,435 dissolved in 2019
Hertfordshire
113,106 total businesses
15,231 formed in 2019
12,403 dissolved in 2019
Kent
113,551 total businesses
15,963 formed in 2019
12,199 dissolved in 2019
Suffolk
36,907 total businesses
4,518 formed in 2019
3,587 dissolved in 2019
London
1,204,778 total businesses
222,468 formed in 2019
166,945 dissolved in 2019
Essex
128,433 total businesses
17,816 formed in 2019
14,103 dissolved in 2019
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Billericay East |
-56 |
||
Billericay West |
60 |
||
Burstead |
29 |
||
Crouch |
-8 |
||
Fryerns |
32 |
||
Laindon Park |
69 |
||
Langdon Hills |
9 |
||
Lee Chapel North |
28 |
||
Nethermayne |
10 |
||
Pitsea North West |
-47 |
||
Pitsea South East |
213 |
||
St Martin's |
29 |
||
Vange |
14 |
||
Wickford Castledon |
-11 |
||
Wickford North |
59 |
||
Wickford Park |
24 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bocking Blackwater |
1 |
||
Bocking North |
12 |
||
Bocking South |
22 |
||
Braintree Central & Beckers Green |
31 |
||
Braintree South |
18 |
||
Braintree West |
2 |
||
Bumpstead |
-1 |
||
Coggeshall |
1 |
||
Gosfield & Greenstead Green |
-7 |
||
Great Notley & Black Notley |
7 |
||
Halstead St Andrew's |
-9 |
||
Halstead Trinity |
23 |
||
Hatfield Peverel & Terling |
9 |
||
Hedingham |
-7 |
||
Kelvedon & Feering |
-31 |
||
Rayne |
3 |
||
Silver End & Cressing |
13 |
||
Stour Valley North |
3 |
||
Stour Valley South |
-2 |
||
The Colnes |
19 |
||
Three Fields |
-7 |
||
Witham Central |
26 |
||
Witham North |
2 |
||
Witham South |
19 |
||
Witham West |
2 |
||
Yeldham |
-2 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Brentwood North |
35 |
||
Brentwood South |
-11 |
||
Brentwood West |
46 |
||
Brizes and Doddinghurst |
21 |
||
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon |
1 |
||
Hutton Central |
132 |
||
Hutton East |
7 |
||
Hutton North |
12 |
||
Hutton South |
-1 |
||
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing |
17 |
||
Pilgrims Hatch |
13 |
||
Shenfield |
28 |
||
South Weald |
-1 |
||
Tipps Cross |
14 |
||
Warley |
-116 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Appleton |
10 |
||
Boyce |
27 |
||
Canvey Island Central |
40 |
||
Canvey Island East |
8 |
||
Canvey Island North |
19 |
||
Canvey Island South |
19 |
||
Canvey Island West |
7 |
||
Canvey Island Winter Gardens |
-3 |
||
Cedar Hall |
-11 |
||
St George's |
1 |
||
St James |
8 |
||
St Mary's |
30 |
||
St Peter's |
31 |
||
Victoria |
11 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield |
8 |
||
Boreham and The Leighs |
6 |
||
Broomfield and The Walthams |
10 |
||
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park |
21 |
||
Chelmsford Rural West |
7 |
||
Galleywood |
10 |
||
Goat Hall |
5 |
||
Great Baddow East |
-15 |
||
Great Baddow West |
10 |
||
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon |
14 |
||
Marconi |
-2 |
||
Moulsham and Central |
218 |
||
Moulsham Lodge |
7 |
||
Patching Hall |
12 |
||
Rettendon and Runwell |
5 |
||
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting |
-3 |
||
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood |
-3 |
||
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville |
47 |
||
Springfield North |
12 |
||
St Andrews |
14 |
||
The Lawns |
4 |
||
Trinity |
6 |
||
Waterhouse Farm |
-9 |
||
Writtle |
9 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Berechurch |
9 |
||
Birch and Winstree |
15 |
||
Castle |
23 |
||
Christ Church |
34 |
||
Copford and West Stanway |
-2 |
||
Dedham and Langham |
44 |
||
East Donyland |
3 |
||
Fordham and Stour |
-12 |
||
Great Tey |
4 |
||
Highwoods |
77 |
||
Lexden |
234 |
||
Marks Tey |
-4 |
||
Mile End |
-6 |
||
New Town |
27 |
||
Old Heath |
28 |
||
Prettygate |
5 |
||
Pyefleet |
1 |
||
Shrub End |
30 |
||
St Andrew's |
13 |
||
St Anne's |
6 |
||
St John's |
0 |
||
Stanway |
13 |
||
Tiptree |
79 |
||
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green |
-3 |
||
West Mersea |
21 |
||
Wivenhoe Cross |
14 |
||
Wivenhoe Quay |
2 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
#N A |
0 |
||
Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing |
12 |
||
Buckhurst Hill East |
22 |
||
Buckhurst Hill West |
-25 |
||
Chigwell Row |
12 |
||
Chigwell Village |
11 |
||
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash |
11 |
||
Epping Hemnall |
25 |
||
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common |
63 |
||
Grange Hill |
17 |
||
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village |
4 |
||
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings |
9 |
||
Lambourne |
8 |
||
Loughton Alderton |
22 |
||
Loughton Broadway |
26 |
||
Loughton Fairmead |
18 |
||
Loughton Forest |
25 |
||
Loughton Roding |
13 |
||
Loughton St John's |
21 |
||
Loughton St Mary's |
-28 |
||
Lower Nazeing |
9 |
||
Lower Sheering |
50 |
||
Moreton and Fyfield |
11 |
||
North Weald Bassett |
0 |
||
Passingford |
8 |
||
Roydon |
0 |
||
Shelley |
3 |
||
Theydon Bois |
9 |
||
Waltham Abbey High Beach |
24 |
||
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane |
16 |
||
Waltham Abbey North East |
10 |
||
Waltham Abbey Paternoster |
2 |
||
Waltham Abbey South West |
38 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bush Fair |
24 |
||
Church Langley |
12 |
||
Great Parndon |
-1 |
||
Harlow Common |
26 |
||
Hunsdon |
-1 |
||
Little Parndon and Hare Street |
44 |
||
Mark Hall |
37 |
||
Netteswell |
6 |
||
Old Harlow |
50 |
||
Staple Tye |
3 |
||
Sumners and Kingsmoor |
5 |
||
Toddbrook |
73 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Althorne |
1 |
||
Burnham-on-Crouch North |
4 |
||
Burnham-on-Crouch South |
1 |
||
Great Totham |
-12 |
||
Heybridge East |
9 |
||
Heybridge West |
4 |
||
Maldon East |
-5 |
||
Maldon North |
8 |
||
Maldon South |
1 |
||
Maldon West |
21 |
||
Mayland |
20 |
||
Purleigh |
1 |
||
Silver End & Cressing |
13 |
||
Southminster |
10 |
||
Tillingham |
3 |
||
Tollesbury |
4 |
||
Tolleshunt D'Arcy |
1 |
||
Wickham Bishops and Woodham |
14 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Ashingdon and Canewdon |
5 |
||
Barling and Sutton |
1 |
||
Downhall and Rawreth |
19 |
||
Foulness and Great Wakering |
15 |
||
Grange |
-2 |
||
Hawkwell North |
4 |
||
Hawkwell South |
6 |
||
Hawkwell West |
21 |
||
Hockley Central |
13 |
||
Hockley North |
2 |
||
Hockley West |
2 |
||
Hullbridge |
2 |
||
Lodge |
2 |
||
Rayleigh Central |
2 |
||
Rochford |
5 |
||
Sweyne Park |
2 |
||
Trinity |
6 |
||
Wheatley |
31 |
||
Whitehouse |
31 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Belfairs |
0 |
||
Blenheim Park |
16 |
||
Chalkwell |
33 |
||
Eastwood Park |
9 |
||
Kursaal |
-171 |
||
Leigh |
71 |
||
Milton |
-83 |
||
Prittlewell |
-2 |
||
Shoeburyness |
14 |
||
Southchurch |
22 |
||
St Laurence |
15 |
||
St. Luke's |
46 |
||
Thorpe |
-12 |
||
Victoria |
11 |
||
West Leigh |
54 |
||
West Shoebury |
18 |
||
Westborough |
14 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Alresford |
-2 |
||
Alton Park |
4 |
||
Ardleigh and Little Bromley |
21 |
||
Beaumont and Thorpe |
5 |
||
Bockings Elm |
-2 |
||
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix |
-4 |
||
Brightlingsea |
10 |
||
Burrsville |
7 |
||
Frinton |
11 |
||
Golf Green |
-2 |
||
Great and Little Oakley |
2 |
||
Great Bentley |
-1 |
||
Hamford |
0 |
||
Harwich East |
10 |
||
Harwich East Central |
31 |
||
Harwich West |
-7 |
||
Harwich West Central |
-10 |
||
Haven |
6 |
||
Holland and Kirby |
9 |
||
Homelands |
2 |
||
Lawford |
8 |
||
Little Clacton and Weeley |
-3 |
||
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring |
10 |
||
Peter Bruff |
5 |
||
Pier |
23 |
||
Ramsey and Parkeston |
3 |
||
Rush Green |
-1 |
||
St Bartholomews |
1 |
||
St James |
8 |
||
St Johns |
-6 |
||
St Marys |
15 |
||
St Osyth and Point Clear |
2 |
||
St Pauls |
5 |
||
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley |
28 |
||
Walton |
-13 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Aveley and Uplands |
34 |
||
Belhus |
5 |
||
Chadwell St Mary |
41 |
||
Chafford and North Stifford |
30 |
||
Corringham and Fobbing |
32 |
||
East Tilbury |
2 |
||
Grays Riverside |
41 |
||
Grays Thurrock |
34 |
||
Little Thurrock Blackshots |
6 |
||
Little Thurrock Rectory |
26 |
||
Ockendon |
25 |
||
Orsett |
11 |
||
South Chafford |
18 |
||
Stanford East and Corringham Town |
8 |
||
Stanford-le-Hope West |
17 |
||
Stifford Clays |
15 |
||
The Homesteads |
-9 |
||
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park |
40 |
||
Tilbury St Chads |
24 |
||
West Thurrock and South Stifford |
41 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Ashdon |
0 |
||
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys |
5 |
||
Clavering |
5 |
||
Debden & Wimbish |
-2 |
||
Elsenham & Henham |
-11 |
||
Felsted & Stebbing |
12 |
||
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow |
8 |
||
Great Dunmow North |
15 |
||
Great Dunmow South & Barnston |
8 |
||
Hatfield Heath |
-1 |
||
High Easter & the Rodings |
6 |
||
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts |
-21 |
||
Newport |
3 |
||
Saffron Walden Audley |
12 |
||
Saffron Walden Castle |
4 |
||
Saffron Walden Shire |
3 |
||
Stansted North |
16 |
||
Stansted South & Birchanger |
2 |
||
Stort Valley |
6 |
||
Takeley |
12 |
||
Thaxted & the Eastons |
-13 |
||
The Sampfords |
11 |
The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2019 and how Essex compares to them.
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st
2018: 1st
|
London |
1,204,778 |
2nd
2018: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
189,867 |
3rd
2018: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
173,134 |
4th
2018: 4th
|
Essex |
128,433 |
5th
2018: 5th
|
West Yorkshire |
123,678 |
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st
2018: 1st
|
London |
1,204,778 |
4th
2018: 4th
|
Essex |
128,433 |
7th
2018: 8th
|
Kent |
113,551 |
8th
2018: 6th
|
Hertfordshire |
113,106 |
26th
2018: 26th
|
Cambridgeshire |
50,160 |
37th
2018: 37th
|
Suffolk |
36,907 |
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st 2018: 1st
|
London |
1,204,778 |
2nd 2018: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
189,867 |
3rd 2018: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
173,134 |
4th 2018: 4th
|
Essex |
128,433 |
5th 2018: 5th
|
West Yorkshire |
123,678 |
6th 2018: 7th
|
Hampshire |
114,831 |
7th 2018: 8th
|
Kent |
113,551 |
8th 2018: 6th
|
Hertfordshire |
113,106 |
9th 2018: 9th
|
Surrey |
100,643 |
10th 2018: 10th
|
Cheshire |
80,108 |
11th 2018: 11th
|
Lancashire |
77,937 |
12th 2018: 13th
|
Berkshire |
70,177 |
13th 2018: 12th
|
Buckinghamshire |
69,470 |
14th 2018: 15th
|
Merseyside |
68,401 |
15th 2018: 14th
|
East Sussex |
67,545 |
16th 2018: 16th
|
Leicestershire |
63,315 |
17th 2018: 17th
|
South Yorkshire |
60,360 |
18th 2018: 18th
|
Dorset |
57,606 |
19th 2018: 19th
|
North Yorkshire |
54,481 |
20th 2018: 21st
|
Devon |
53,264 |
21st 2018: 20th
|
West Sussex |
52,825 |
22nd 2018: 22nd
|
Gloucestershire |
52,494 |
23rd 2018: 24th
|
Somerset |
51,957 |
24th 2018: 25th
|
Staffordshire |
51,758 |
25th 2018: 23rd
|
Nottinghamshire |
51,677 |
26th 2018: 26th
|
Cambridgeshire |
50,160 |
27th 2018: 28th
|
Northamptonshire |
49,144 |
28th 2018: 27th
|
Derbyshire |
48,355 |
29th 2018: 29th
|
Lincolnshire |
45,109 |
30th 2018: 30th
|
Tyne and Wear |
44,237 |
31st 2018: 33rd
|
Worcestershire |
43,247 |
32nd 2018: 32nd
|
Oxfordshire |
42,461 |
33rd 2018: 31st
|
Bedfordshire |
42,145 |
34th 2018: 35th
|
Warwickshire |
38,998 |
35th 2018: 34th
|
Norfolk |
38,911 |
36th 2018: 36th
|
Wiltshire |
37,182 |
37th 2018: 37th
|
Suffolk |
36,907 |
38th 2018: 38th
|
Bristol |
33,594 |
39th 2018: 39th
|
Durham |
29,218 |
40th 2018: 40th
|
East Riding of Yorkshire |
25,383 |
41st 2018: 41st
|
Shropshire |
23,741 |
42nd 2018: 42nd
|
Cornwall |
23,037 |
43rd 2018: 43rd
|
Cumbria |
21,286 |
44th 2018: 44th
|
Northumberland |
10,879 |
45th 2018: 45th
|
Herefordshire |
10,498 |
46th 2018: 46th
|
Isle of Wight |
5,705 |
47th 2018: 47th
|
Rutland |
1,904 |
74.3
70.7
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.
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
2019
17,816 formed
14,103 dissolved
Overall growth compared to previous year
3.9% vs 2015
4.11% vs 2016
4.93% vs 2017
4.9% vs 2018