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Company Formations in 2019: Essex

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4.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2018

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 2,093
  • BBraintree: 976
  • CBrentwood: 1,060
  • DCastle Point: 818
  • EChelmsford: 1,724
  • FColchester: 1,820
  • GEpping Forest: 1,909
  • HHarlow: 831
  • IMaldon: 465
  • JRochford: 664
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 2,030
  • LTendring: 724
  • MThurrock: 1,913
  • NUttlesford: 762

Companies formed in 2019 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 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
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County
No. Companies formed
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
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County
No. Companies formed
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

New incorporations in 2019 per 1000 Man standing people

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (17,359 companies)

3% Other company types (457 companies)

Other company types breakdown (457 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2019

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2019

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2019

meaning there is a total of

128,433

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2019.

4.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2018

Surrounding counties 2019 breakdown & comparison

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

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
231
175
-56
Billericay West
109
169
60
Burstead
39
68
29
Crouch
78
70
-8
Fryerns
257
289
32
Laindon Park
90
159
69
Langdon Hills
44
53
9
Lee Chapel North
61
89
28
Nethermayne
62
72
10
Pitsea North West
158
111
-47
Pitsea South East
83
296
213
St Martin's
76
105
29
Vange
53
67
14
Wickford Castledon
82
71
-11
Wickford North
164
223
59
Wickford Park
52
76
24
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
36
37
1
Bocking North
25
37
12
Bocking South
45
67
22
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
102
133
31
Braintree South
10
28
18
Braintree West
21
23
2
Bumpstead
14
13
-1
Coggeshall
42
43
1
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
16
9
-7
Great Notley & Black Notley
50
57
7
Halstead St Andrew's
35
26
-9
Halstead Trinity
18
41
23
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
27
36
9
Hedingham
53
46
-7
Kelvedon & Feering
71
40
-31
Rayne
10
13
3
Silver End & Cressing
17
30
13
Stour Valley North
15
18
3
Stour Valley South
12
10
-2
The Colnes
18
37
19
Three Fields
26
19
-7
Witham Central
82
108
26
Witham North
21
23
2
Witham South
26
45
19
Witham West
25
27
2
Yeldham
12
10
-2
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
81
116
35
Brentwood South
149
138
-11
Brentwood West
100
146
46
Brizes and Doddinghurst
33
54
21
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
38
39
1
Hutton Central
18
150
132
Hutton East
16
23
7
Hutton North
22
34
12
Hutton South
24
23
-1
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
51
68
17
Pilgrims Hatch
40
53
13
Shenfield
51
79
28
South Weald
20
19
-1
Tipps Cross
16
30
14
Warley
204
88
-116
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
27
37
10
Boyce
16
43
27
Canvey Island Central
64
104
40
Canvey Island East
21
29
8
Canvey Island North
16
35
19
Canvey Island South
49
68
19
Canvey Island West
24
31
7
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
24
21
-3
Cedar Hall
53
42
-11
St George's
36
37
1
St James
124
132
8
St Mary's
72
102
30
St Peter's
40
71
31
Victoria
210
221
11
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
24
32
8
Boreham and The Leighs
25
31
6
Broomfield and The Walthams
53
63
10
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
66
87
21
Chelmsford Rural West
15
22
7
Galleywood
17
27
10
Goat Hall
28
33
5
Great Baddow East
74
59
-15
Great Baddow West
28
38
10
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
38
52
14
Marconi
145
143
-2
Moulsham and Central
330
548
218
Moulsham Lodge
19
26
7
Patching Hall
38
50
12
Rettendon and Runwell
23
28
5
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
55
52
-3
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
33
30
-3
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
56
103
47
Springfield North
28
40
12
St Andrews
31
45
14
The Lawns
21
25
4
Trinity
57
63
6
Waterhouse Farm
94
85
-9
Writtle
43
52
9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
41
50
9
Birch and Winstree
18
33
15
Castle
254
277
23
Christ Church
67
101
34
Copford and West Stanway
14
12
-2
Dedham and Langham
68
112
44
East Donyland
11
14
3
Fordham and Stour
35
23
-12
Great Tey
22
26
4
Highwoods
66
143
77
Lexden
35
269
234
Marks Tey
16
12
-4
Mile End
84
78
-6
New Town
65
92
27
Old Heath
36
64
28
Prettygate
26
31
5
Pyefleet
7
8
1
Shrub End
32
62
30
St Andrew's
42
55
13
St Anne's
38
44
6
St John's
13
13
0
Stanway
39
52
13
Tiptree
28
107
79
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
34
31
-3
West Mersea
25
46
21
Wivenhoe Cross
8
22
14
Wivenhoe Quay
41
43
2
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
18
30
12
Buckhurst Hill East
29
51
22
Buckhurst Hill West
115
90
-25
Chigwell Row
14
26
12
Chigwell Village
42
53
11
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
28
39
11
Epping Hemnall
56
81
25
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
78
141
63
Grange Hill
70
87
17
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
22
26
4
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
14
23
9
Lambourne
12
20
8
Loughton Alderton
39
61
22
Loughton Broadway
71
97
26
Loughton Fairmead
24
42
18
Loughton Forest
211
236
25
Loughton Roding
25
38
13
Loughton St John's
60
81
21
Loughton St Mary's
94
66
-28
Lower Nazeing
36
45
9
Lower Sheering
41
91
50
Moreton and Fyfield
10
21
11
North Weald Bassett
36
36
0
Passingford
22
30
8
Roydon
18
18
0
Shelley
10
13
3
Theydon Bois
26
35
9
Waltham Abbey High Beach
20
44
24
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
29
45
16
Waltham Abbey North East
51
61
10
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
20
22
2
Waltham Abbey South West
122
160
38
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
24
48
24
Church Langley
38
50
12
Great Parndon
27
26
-1
Harlow Common
25
51
26
Hunsdon
1
0
-1
Little Parndon and Hare Street
73
117
44
Mark Hall
53
90
37
Netteswell
45
51
6
Old Harlow
89
139
50
Staple Tye
48
51
3
Sumners and Kingsmoor
36
41
5
Toddbrook
94
167
73
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
20
21
1
Burnham-on-Crouch North
16
20
4
Burnham-on-Crouch South
33
34
1
Great Totham
36
24
-12
Heybridge East
7
16
9
Heybridge West
29
33
4
Maldon East
9
4
-5
Maldon North
56
64
8
Maldon South
11
12
1
Maldon West
47
68
21
Mayland
16
36
20
Purleigh
19
20
1
Silver End & Cressing
17
30
13
Southminster
15
25
10
Tillingham
8
11
3
Tollesbury
4
8
4
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
28
29
1
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
26
40
14
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
16
21
5
Barling and Sutton
2
3
1
Downhall and Rawreth
34
53
19
Foulness and Great Wakering
13
28
15
Grange
14
12
-2
Hawkwell North
9
13
4
Hawkwell South
9
15
6
Hawkwell West
26
47
21
Hockley Central
36
49
13
Hockley North
5
7
2
Hockley West
9
11
2
Hullbridge
21
23
2
Lodge
13
15
2
Rayleigh Central
13
15
2
Rochford
138
143
5
Sweyne Park
14
16
2
Trinity
57
63
6
Wheatley
101
132
31
Whitehouse
20
51
31
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
74
74
0
Blenheim Park
82
98
16
Chalkwell
99
132
33
Eastwood Park
64
73
9
Kursaal
256
85
-171
Leigh
142
213
71
Milton
494
411
-83
Prittlewell
64
62
-2
Shoeburyness
62
76
14
Southchurch
36
58
22
St Laurence
23
38
15
St. Luke's
78
124
46
Thorpe
58
46
-12
Victoria
210
221
11
West Leigh
184
238
54
West Shoebury
25
43
18
Westborough
106
120
14
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
9
7
-2
Alton Park
9
13
4
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
20
41
21
Beaumont and Thorpe
9
14
5
Bockings Elm
18
16
-2
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
9
5
-4
Brightlingsea
24
34
10
Burrsville
12
19
7
Frinton
22
33
11
Golf Green
8
6
-2
Great and Little Oakley
3
5
2
Great Bentley
11
10
-1
Hamford
5
5
0
Harwich East
22
32
10
Harwich East Central
16
47
31
Harwich West
15
8
-7
Harwich West Central
21
11
-10
Haven
4
10
6
Holland and Kirby
9
18
9
Homelands
2
4
2
Lawford
10
18
8
Little Clacton and Weeley
19
16
-3
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
22
32
10
Peter Bruff
8
13
5
Pier
64
87
23
Ramsey and Parkeston
8
11
3
Rush Green
8
7
-1
St Bartholomews
12
13
1
St James
124
132
8
St Johns
14
8
-6
St Marys
10
25
15
St Osyth and Point Clear
23
25
2
St Pauls
15
20
5
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
52
80
28
Walton
28
15
-13
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
69
103
34
Belhus
69
74
5
Chadwell St Mary
57
98
41
Chafford and North Stifford
65
95
30
Corringham and Fobbing
25
57
32
East Tilbury
39
41
2
Grays Riverside
199
240
41
Grays Thurrock
92
126
34
Little Thurrock Blackshots
33
39
6
Little Thurrock Rectory
67
93
26
Ockendon
61
86
25
Orsett
57
68
11
South Chafford
105
123
18
Stanford East and Corringham Town
29
37
8
Stanford-le-Hope West
160
177
17
Stifford Clays
25
40
15
The Homesteads
31
22
-9
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
76
116
40
Tilbury St Chads
42
66
24
West Thurrock and South Stifford
171
212
41
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
11
11
0
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
41
46
5
Clavering
8
13
5
Debden & Wimbish
7
5
-2
Elsenham & Henham
25
14
-11
Felsted & Stebbing
12
24
12
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
12
20
8
Great Dunmow North
13
28
15
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
73
81
8
Hatfield Heath
20
19
-1
High Easter & the Rodings
12
18
6
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
90
69
-21
Newport
18
21
3
Saffron Walden Audley
95
107
12
Saffron Walden Castle
16
20
4
Saffron Walden Shire
25
28
3
Stansted North
42
58
16
Stansted South & Birchanger
29
31
2
Stort Valley
10
16
6
Takeley
61
73
12
Thaxted & the Eastons
52
39
-13
The Sampfords
10
21
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Total companies 2019 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2019 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
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
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
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

Total companies at the end of 2019 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.

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