Inform Direct: Total companies in Essex by the end of 2020

Companies formed in 2020 league table

The counties in England where most companies are formed, and how Essex compares.

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

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

New incorporations in 2020 per 1000 people

In Essex

11.1

National Average

12.3

Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (18,765 companies)

3% Other company types (512 companies)

Public Limited Company 0.4% (2 companies)
Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) 16.0% (82 companies)
Company Limited by Guarantee 62.3% (319 companies)
Limited Partnership 1.0% (5 companies)
Community Interest Company 19.9% (102 companies)
Other 0.4% (2 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

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	-1

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
#N A		0	0
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

Ward

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	7

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.

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

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

Company Formations in 2020: Essex

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

Companies formed in 2020 league table

New incorporations in 2020 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2020

meaning there is a total of

Surrounding counties 2020 breakdown & comparison

Ward breakdown data for

Total companies 2020 league table

Total companies at the end of 2020 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

The last 5 years

Company Formations in 2020: Essex

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

Companies formed in 2020 league table

New incorporations in 2020 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2020

meaning there is a total of

Surrounding counties 2020 breakdown & comparison

Ward breakdown data for Basildon Braintree Brentwood Castle Point Chelmsford Colchester Epping Forest Harlow Maldon Rochford Southend-on-Sea Tendring Thurrock Uttlesford

Total companies 2020 league table

Total companies at the end of 2020 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

The last 5 years

Ward breakdown data for