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Company Formations in 2020: Essex

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???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2020

6.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2019

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 2,100
  • BBraintree: 1,131
  • CBrentwood: 1,044
  • DCastle Point: 818
  • EChelmsford: 1,678
  • FColchester: 1,576
  • GEpping Forest: 2,153
  • HHarlow: 1,157
  • IMaldon: 480
  • JRochford: 638
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 2,294
  • LTendring: 799
  • MThurrock: 2,441
  • NUttlesford: 939

Companies formed in 2020 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 2019: 1st
London
270,114
2nd 2019: 3rd
West Midlands
37,202
3rd 2019: 2nd
Greater Manchester
36,288
4th 2019: 4th
West Yorkshire
22,615
5th 2019: 5th
Essex
19,277
Rank
County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2019: 1st
London
270,114
5th 2019: 5th
Essex
19,277
6th 2019: 6th
Kent
18,501
8th 2019: 7th
Hertfordshire
14,464
24th 2019: 25th
Cambridgeshire
7,516
35th 2019: 38th
Suffolk
5,105
Rank
County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2019: 1st
London
270,114
2nd 2019: 3rd
West Midlands
37,202
3rd 2019: 2nd
Greater Manchester
36,288
4th 2019: 4th
West Yorkshire
22,615
5th 2019: 5th
Essex
19,277
6th 2019: 6th
Kent
18,501
7th 2019: 8th
Hampshire
15,534
8th 2019: 7th
Hertfordshire
14,464
9th 2019: 10th
Merseyside
13,410
10th 2019: 11th
Lancashire
12,655
11th 2019: 13th
Leicestershire
12,543
12th 2019: 12th
Surrey
11,997
13th 2019: 9th
Cheshire
11,017
14th 2019: 15th
South Yorkshire
10,450
15th 2019: 16th
Berkshire
9,920
16th 2019: 17th
Buckinghamshire
9,394
17th 2019: 21st
Nottinghamshire
8,760
18th 2019: 26th
Bedfordshire
8,238
19th 2019: 22nd
North Yorkshire
8,200
20th 2019: 20th
East Sussex
8,149
21st 2019: 23rd
Tyne and Wear
7,867
22nd 2019: 24th
Staffordshire
7,720
23rd 2019: 18th
Northamptonshire
7,534
24th 2019: 25th
Cambridgeshire
7,516
25th 2019: 27th
Derbyshire
7,413
26th 2019: 19th
Dorset
7,253
27th 2019: 28th
Devon
7,174
28th 2019: 14th
Worcestershire
6,955
29th 2019: 29th
West Sussex
6,880
30th 2019: 30th
Lincolnshire
6,475
31st 2019: 31st
Somerset
6,432
32nd 2019: 32nd
Gloucestershire
6,419
33rd 2019: 35th
Bristol
5,559
34th 2019: 34th
Oxfordshire
5,363
35th 2019: 38th
Suffolk
5,105
36th 2019: 37th
Durham
5,083
37th 2019: 36th
Norfolk
5,006
38th 2019: 33rd
Warwickshire
4,920
39th 2019: 39th
Wiltshire
4,645
40th 2019: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
3,667
41st 2019: 41st
Shropshire
3,386
42nd 2019: 42nd
Cornwall
2,951
43rd 2019: 43rd
Cumbria
2,333
44th 2019: 45th
Herefordshire
2,327
45th 2019: 44th
Northumberland
1,560
46th 2019: 46th
Isle of Wight
765
47th 2019: 47th
Rutland
410

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (18,765 companies)

3% Other company types (512 companies)

Other company types breakdown (512 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2020

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2020

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2020

meaning there is a total of

137,310

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2020.

6.9% more companies in Essex compared to 2019

Surrounding counties 2020 breakdown & comparison

Cambridgeshire

54,497 total businesses
7,516 formed in 2020
4,534 dissolved in 2020

Hertfordshire

117,796 total businesses
14,464 formed in 2020
10,027 dissolved in 2020

Kent

122,694 total businesses
18,501 formed in 2020
10,634 dissolved in 2020

Suffolk

39,507 total businesses
5,105 formed in 2020
2,963 dissolved in 2020

London

1,338,261 total businesses
270,114 formed in 2020
118,911 dissolved in 2020

Essex

137,310 total businesses
19,277 formed in 2020
11,274 dissolved in 2020

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
114
156
42
Billericay West
128
254
126
Burstead
49
69
20
Crouch
31
57
26
Fryerns
184
345
161
Laindon Park
76
152
76
Langdon Hills
24
63
39
Lee Chapel North
58
116
58
Nethermayne
48
84
36
Pitsea North West
62
120
58
Pitsea South East
50
116
66
St Martin's
63
112
49
Vange
31
86
55
Wickford Castledon
49
71
22
Wickford North
109
230
121
Wickford Park
49
69
20
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
20
161
141
Bocking North
19
26
7
Bocking South
47
48
1
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
80
139
59
Braintree South
15
21
6
Braintree West
20
26
6
Bumpstead
10
24
14
Coggeshall
30
34
4
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
6
19
13
Great Notley & Black Notley
46
54
8
Halstead St Andrew's
19
37
18
Halstead Trinity
26
30
4
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
28
51
23
Hedingham
26
33
7
Kelvedon & Feering
40
45
5
Rayne
8
27
19
Silver End & Cressing
12
36
24
Stour Valley North
16
11
-5
Stour Valley South
8
18
10
The Colnes
24
41
17
Three Fields
17
40
23
Witham Central
60
110
50
Witham North
19
24
5
Witham South
19
46
27
Witham West
19
21
2
Yeldham
11
10
-1
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
71
122
51
Brentwood South
127
164
37
Brentwood West
69
153
84
Brizes and Doddinghurst
28
54
26
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
26
38
12
Hutton Central
17
37
20
Hutton East
12
29
17
Hutton North
27
45
18
Hutton South
12
29
17
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
57
81
24
Pilgrims Hatch
22
75
53
Shenfield
47
73
26
South Weald
16
18
2
Tipps Cross
17
23
6
Warley
143
103
-40
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
27
39
12
Boyce
19
47
28
Canvey Island Central
66
84
18
Canvey Island East
17
31
14
Canvey Island North
27
31
4
Canvey Island South
38
54
16
Canvey Island West
19
32
13
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
11
20
9
Cedar Hall
48
35
-13
St George's
70
47
-23
St James
68
135
67
St Mary's
78
101
23
St Peter's
37
102
65
Victoria
135
233
98
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
15
42
27
Boreham and The Leighs
20
28
8
Broomfield and The Walthams
57
66
9
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
40
79
39
Chelmsford Rural West
11
41
30
Galleywood
22
20
-2
Goat Hall
22
37
15
Great Baddow East
44
64
20
Great Baddow West
18
33
15
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
29
61
32
Marconi
186
140
-46
Moulsham and Central
296
418
122
Moulsham Lodge
15
29
14
Patching Hall
32
48
16
Rettendon and Runwell
18
40
22
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
45
58
13
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
32
36
4
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
66
106
40
Springfield North
33
46
13
St Andrews
23
47
24
The Lawns
16
29
13
Trinity
34
69
35
Waterhouse Farm
38
89
51
Writtle
25
65
40
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
27
41
14
Birch and Winstree
24
28
4
Castle
260
285
25
Christ Church
57
83
26
Copford and West Stanway
32
17
-15
Dedham and Langham
57
111
54
East Donyland
5
12
7
Fordham and Stour
17
35
18
Great Tey
18
30
12
Highwoods
137
116
-21
Lexden
43
53
10
Marks Tey
7
16
9
Mile End
51
84
33
New Town
63
128
65
Old Heath
25
52
27
Prettygate
15
33
18
Pyefleet
6
13
7
Shrub End
31
70
39
St Andrew's
34
50
16
St Anne's
29
41
12
St John's
13
13
0
Stanway
40
44
4
Tiptree
32
81
49
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
30
40
10
West Mersea
20
45
25
Wivenhoe Cross
10
24
14
Wivenhoe Quay
32
31
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
13
29
16
Buckhurst Hill East
26
49
23
Buckhurst Hill West
64
114
50
Chigwell Row
11
21
10
Chigwell Village
19
74
55
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
26
86
60
Epping Hemnall
42
79
37
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
60
133
73
Grange Hill
71
138
67
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
17
22
5
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
11
22
11
Lambourne
7
35
28
Loughton Alderton
30
74
44
Loughton Broadway
75
90
15
Loughton Fairmead
22
33
11
Loughton Forest
186
252
66
Loughton Roding
14
43
29
Loughton St John's
38
91
53
Loughton St Mary's
65
64
-1
Lower Nazeing
25
47
22
Lower Sheering
45
61
16
Moreton and Fyfield
11
29
18
North Weald Bassett
17
36
19
Passingford
13
35
22
Roydon
15
31
16
Shelley
12
17
5
Theydon Bois
22
53
31
Waltham Abbey High Beach
17
40
23
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
22
83
61
Waltham Abbey North East
29
70
41
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
21
32
11
Waltham Abbey South West
76
170
94
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
37
65
28
Church Langley
29
59
30
Great Parndon
21
46
25
Harlow Common
22
72
50
Hunsdon
1
1
0
Little Parndon and Hare Street
43
121
78
Mark Hall
36
112
76
Netteswell
31
66
35
Old Harlow
98
161
63
Staple Tye
30
167
137
Sumners and Kingsmoor
35
66
31
Toddbrook
56
221
165
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
17
23
6
Burnham-on-Crouch North
16
19
3
Burnham-on-Crouch South
32
30
-2
Great Totham
9
19
10
Heybridge East
8
13
5
Heybridge West
26
40
14
Maldon East
6
5
-1
Maldon North
37
73
36
Maldon South
12
18
6
Maldon West
47
61
14
Mayland
17
30
13
Purleigh
23
24
1
Silver End & Cressing
12
36
24
Southminster
20
16
-4
Tillingham
10
10
0
Tollesbury
5
5
0
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
29
43
14
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
32
50
18
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
8
21
13
Barling and Sutton
5
16
11
Downhall and Rawreth
22
52
30
Foulness and Great Wakering
17
24
7
Grange
8
10
2
Hawkwell North
14
13
-1
Hawkwell South
7
23
16
Hawkwell West
22
26
4
Hockley Central
29
37
8
Hockley North
3
8
5
Hockley West
4
8
4
Hullbridge
17
36
19
Lodge
12
23
11
Rayleigh Central
10
18
8
Rochford
96
149
53
Sweyne Park
13
15
2
Trinity
34
69
35
Wheatley
76
95
19
Whitehouse
22
51
29
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
54
90
36
Blenheim Park
70
105
35
Chalkwell
74
148
74
Eastwood Park
43
54
11
Kursaal
325
93
-232
Leigh
111
274
163
Milton
339
434
95
Prittlewell
41
103
62
Shoeburyness
52
105
53
Southchurch
35
64
29
St Laurence
27
53
26
St. Luke's
72
105
33
Thorpe
34
38
4
Victoria
135
233
98
West Leigh
154
262
108
West Shoebury
25
54
29
Westborough
66
150
84
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
4
8
4
Alton Park
6
17
11
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
22
44
22
Beaumont and Thorpe
13
21
8
Bockings Elm
10
14
4
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
3
11
8
Brightlingsea
29
26
-3
Burrsville
7
34
27
Frinton
22
39
17
Golf Green
7
9
2
Great and Little Oakley
6
9
3
Great Bentley
9
17
8
Hamford
7
7
0
Harwich East
11
28
17
Harwich East Central
24
44
20
Harwich West
5
14
9
Harwich West Central
6
10
4
Haven
6
4
-2
Holland and Kirby
8
18
10
Homelands
1
3
2
Lawford
15
24
9
Little Clacton and Weeley
17
14
-3
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
14
24
10
Peter Bruff
12
20
8
Pier
29
64
35
Ramsey and Parkeston
5
8
3
Rush Green
5
19
14
St Bartholomews
15
67
52
St James
68
135
67
St Johns
8
13
5
St Marys
15
24
9
St Osyth and Point Clear
15
36
21
St Pauls
11
13
2
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
53
65
12
Walton
13
20
7
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
46
129
83
Belhus
42
120
78
Chadwell St Mary
28
106
78
Chafford and North Stifford
41
118
77
Corringham and Fobbing
27
34
7
East Tilbury
20
107
87
Grays Riverside
139
292
153
Grays Thurrock
90
138
48
Little Thurrock Blackshots
38
85
47
Little Thurrock Rectory
50
115
65
Ockendon
52
114
62
Orsett
45
92
47
South Chafford
72
165
93
Stanford East and Corringham Town
23
48
25
Stanford-le-Hope West
111
147
36
Stifford Clays
21
52
31
The Homesteads
16
37
21
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
42
158
116
Tilbury St Chads
41
85
44
West Thurrock and South Stifford
144
299
155
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
4
8
4
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
34
45
11
Clavering
9
14
5
Debden & Wimbish
11
16
5
Elsenham & Henham
23
32
9
Felsted & Stebbing
13
49
36
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
8
13
5
Great Dunmow North
11
25
14
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
60
116
56
Hatfield Heath
11
23
12
High Easter & the Rodings
12
28
16
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
53
70
17
Newport
12
32
20
Saffron Walden Audley
73
135
62
Saffron Walden Castle
9
17
8
Saffron Walden Shire
12
55
43
Stansted North
34
61
27
Stansted South & Birchanger
27
28
1
Stort Valley
11
8
-3
Takeley
45
77
32
Thaxted & the Eastons
24
70
46
The Sampfords
10
17
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Total companies 2020 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2020 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2019: 1st
London
1,338,261
2nd 2019: 2nd
Greater Manchester
207,946
3rd 2019: 3rd
West Midlands
191,692
4th 2019: 4th
Essex
137,310
5th 2019: 5th
West Yorkshire
135,276
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2019: 1st
London
1,338,261
4th 2019: 4th
Essex
137,310
6th 2019: 7th
Kent
122,694
8th 2019: 8th
Hertfordshire
117,796
26th 2019: 26th
Cambridgeshire
54,497
36th 2019: 37th
Suffolk
39,507
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2019: 1st
London
1,338,261
2nd 2019: 2nd
Greater Manchester
207,946
3rd 2019: 3rd
West Midlands
191,692
4th 2019: 4th
Essex
137,310
5th 2019: 5th
West Yorkshire
135,276
6th 2019: 7th
Kent
122,694
7th 2019: 6th
Hampshire
121,331
8th 2019: 8th
Hertfordshire
117,796
9th 2019: 9th
Surrey
105,715
10th 2019: 10th
Cheshire
86,796
11th 2019: 11th
Lancashire
83,690
12th 2019: 14th
Merseyside
74,780
13th 2019: 13th
Buckinghamshire
73,748
14th 2019: 12th
Berkshire
73,492
15th 2019: 16th
Leicestershire
71,425
16th 2019: 15th
East Sussex
70,311
17th 2019: 17th
South Yorkshire
65,398
18th 2019: 19th
North Yorkshire
58,526
19th 2019: 20th
Devon
57,278
20th 2019: 21st
West Sussex
56,212
21st 2019: 25th
Nottinghamshire
56,199
22nd 2019: 22nd
Gloucestershire
55,106
23rd 2019: 23rd
Somerset
55,092
24th 2019: 24th
Staffordshire
54,862
25th 2019: 18th
Dorset
54,841
26th 2019: 26th
Cambridgeshire
54,497
27th 2019: 27th
Northamptonshire
52,017
28th 2019: 28th
Derbyshire
51,742
29th 2019: 29th
Lincolnshire
48,061
30th 2019: 30th
Tyne and Wear
47,790
31st 2019: 33rd
Bedfordshire
46,207
32nd 2019: 32nd
Oxfordshire
45,071
33rd 2019: 31st
Worcestershire
44,570
34th 2019: 35th
Norfolk
41,185
35th 2019: 34th
Warwickshire
40,304
36th 2019: 37th
Suffolk
39,507
37th 2019: 36th
Wiltshire
39,022
38th 2019: 38th
Bristol
36,208
39th 2019: 39th
Durham
31,943
40th 2019: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
26,864
41st 2019: 41st
Shropshire
25,603
42nd 2019: 42nd
Cornwall
23,804
43rd 2019: 43rd
Cumbria
22,186
44th 2019: 45th
Herefordshire
12,800
45th 2019: 44th
Northumberland
11,575
46th 2019: 46th
Isle of Wight
6,118
47th 2019: 47th
Rutland
2,257

Total companies at the end of 2020 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.

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

2020

19,277 formed

11,274 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

4.11% vs 2016

4.93% vs 2017

4.91% vs 2018

6.9% vs 2019