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Company Formations in 2022: Essex

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???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2022

4.5% more companies in Essex compared to 2021

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 2,255
  • BBraintree: 1,027
  • CBrentwood: 978
  • DCastle Point: 901
  • EChelmsford: 1,600
  • FColchester: 1,680
  • GEpping Forest: 1,832
  • HHarlow: 1,139
  • IMaldon: 535
  • JRochford: 666
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 2,219
  • LTendring: 842
  • MThurrock: 2,412
  • NUttlesford: 838

Companies formed in 2022 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 2021: 1st
London
274,838
2nd 2021: 2nd
West Midlands
39,355
3rd 2021: 3rd
Greater Manchester
38,756
4th 2021: 4th
West Yorkshire
25,517
5th 2021: 5th
Essex
18,955
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2021: 1st
London
274,838
5th 2021: 5th
Essex
18,955
6th 2021: 6th
Kent
16,109
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,643
25th 2021: 23rd
Cambridgeshire
7,739
30th 2021: 33rd
Suffolk
6,749
Rank
County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2021: 1st
London
274,838
2nd 2021: 2nd
West Midlands
39,355
3rd 2021: 3rd
Greater Manchester
38,756
4th 2021: 4th
West Yorkshire
25,517
5th 2021: 5th
Essex
18,955
6th 2021: 6th
Kent
16,109
7th 2021: 7th
Hampshire
14,533
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,643
9th 2021: 9th
Merseyside
13,358
10th 2021: 10th
Lancashire
13,312
11th 2021: 12th
South Yorkshire
11,901
12th 2021: 11th
Surrey
10,902
13th 2021: 14th
Leicestershire
10,408
14th 2021: 15th
Berkshire
9,571
15th 2021: 13th
Cheshire
9,335
16th 2021: 17th
Nottinghamshire
9,235
17th 2021: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,683
18th 2021: 24th
Bedfordshire
8,495
19th 2021: 22nd
Dorset
8,427
20th 2021: 21st
North Yorkshire
8,424
21st 2021: 18th
Staffordshire
8,072
22nd 2021: 20th
Tyne and Wear
7,838
23rd 2021: 27th
Northamptonshire
7,831
24th 2021: 26th
Derbyshire
7,764
25th 2021: 23rd
Cambridgeshire
7,739
26th 2021: 19th
East Sussex
7,193
27th 2021: 28th
Somerset
7,121
28th 2021: 29th
Lincolnshire
7,100
29th 2021: 30th
Devon
6,814
30th 2021: 33rd
Suffolk
6,749
31st 2021: 32nd
Gloucestershire
6,373
32nd 2021: 31st
West Sussex
6,136
33rd 2021: 36th
Warwickshire
5,540
34th 2021: 34th
Norfolk
5,384
35th 2021: 37th
Durham
5,109
36th 2021: 35th
Bristol
4,951
37th 2021: 25th
Worcestershire
4,941
38th 2021: 38th
Oxfordshire
4,842
39th 2021: 39th
Wiltshire
4,536
40th 2021: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
4,233
41st 2021: 42nd
Shropshire
3,132
42nd 2021: 43rd
Herefordshire
2,928
43rd 2021: 41st
Cornwall
2,912
44th 2021: 44th
Cumbria
2,418
45th 2021: 45th
Northumberland
1,527
46th 2021: 46th
Isle of Wight
652
47th 2021: 47th
Rutland
193

New incorporations in 2022 per 1000 Man standing people

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (18,402 companies)

3% Other company types (553 companies)

Other company types breakdown (553 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2022

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2022

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2022

Companies House did not always process company dissolutions as soon as the standard conditions for dissolution were first met.

meaning there is a total of

148,387

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2022.

4.5% more companies in Essex compared to 2021

Surrounding counties 2022 breakdown & comparison

Cambridgeshire

57,788 total businesses
7,739 formed in 2022
6,068 dissolved in 2022

Hertfordshire

122,123 total businesses
13,643 formed in 2022
11,771 dissolved in 2022

Kent

130,283 total businesses
16,109 formed in 2022
13,087 dissolved in 2022

Suffolk

45,867 total businesses
6,749 formed in 2022
3,887 dissolved in 2022

London

1,462,539 total businesses
274,838 formed in 2022
185,954 dissolved in 2022

Essex

148,387 total businesses
18,955 formed in 2022
14,636 dissolved in 2022

SuffolkCambridgeshireEssexHertfordshireLondonKent

Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
133
107
-26
Billericay West
169
219
50
Burstead
53
67
14
Crouch
56
69
13
Fryerns
254
370
116
Laindon Park
119
113
-6
Langdon Hills
50
57
7
Lee Chapel North
78
101
23
Nethermayne
62
139
77
Pitsea North West
104
204
100
Pitsea South East
76
100
24
St Martin's
77
131
54
Vange
50
76
26
Wickford Castledon
64
71
7
Wickford North
158
288
130
Wickford Park
99
143
44
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
59
50
-9
Bocking North
31
29
-2
Bocking South
39
53
14
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
99
135
36
Braintree South
15
34
19
Braintree West
23
22
-1
Bumpstead
15
16
1
Coggeshall
32
45
13
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
46
21
-25
Great Notley & Black Notley
71
42
-29
Halstead St Andrew's
17
32
15
Halstead Trinity
37
45
8
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
35
35
0
Hedingham
43
42
-1
Kelvedon & Feering
34
80
46
Rayne
11
15
4
Silver End & Cressing
20
32
12
Stour Valley North
12
11
-1
Stour Valley South
21
17
-4
The Colnes
31
33
2
Three Fields
24
35
11
Witham Central
76
105
29
Witham North
15
27
12
Witham South
24
34
10
Witham West
20
20
0
Yeldham
13
17
4
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
88
92
4
Brentwood South
139
137
-2
Brentwood West
98
91
-7
Brizes and Doddinghurst
32
61
29
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
33
52
19
Hutton Central
28
129
101
Hutton East
24
25
1
Hutton North
34
31
-3
Hutton South
19
37
18
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
49
58
9
Pilgrims Hatch
55
68
13
Shenfield
47
57
10
South Weald
20
19
-1
Tipps Cross
24
20
-4
Warley
232
101
-131
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
32
42
10
Boyce
29
30
1
Canvey Island Central
73
98
25
Canvey Island East
17
39
22
Canvey Island North
19
30
11
Canvey Island South
46
45
-1
Canvey Island West
26
53
27
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
22
39
17
Cedar Hall
29
38
9
St George's
27
50
23
St James
111
152
41
St Mary's
75
152
77
St Peter's
56
76
20
Victoria
207
263
56
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
40
38
-2
Boreham and The Leighs
23
40
17
Broomfield and The Walthams
57
72
15
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
58
79
21
Chelmsford Rural West
20
29
9
Galleywood
18
20
2
Goat Hall
31
35
4
Great Baddow East
43
50
7
Great Baddow West
25
34
9
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
51
48
-3
Marconi
156
139
-17
Moulsham and Central
306
330
24
Moulsham Lodge
30
29
-1
Patching Hall
39
71
32
Rettendon and Runwell
28
52
24
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
55
50
-5
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
42
33
-9
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
65
137
72
Springfield North
33
37
4
St Andrews
37
48
11
The Lawns
25
27
2
Trinity
59
73
14
Waterhouse Farm
66
95
29
Writtle
36
50
14
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
33
52
19
Birch and Winstree
18
33
15
Castle
334
303
-31
Christ Church
63
79
16
Copford and West Stanway
46
31
-15
Dedham and Langham
64
92
28
East Donyland
10
13
3
Fordham and Stour
25
38
13
Great Tey
27
40
13
Highwoods
69
114
45
Lexden
31
30
-1
Marks Tey
15
18
3
Mile End
54
98
44
New Town
92
118
26
Old Heath
45
53
8
Prettygate
21
31
10
Pyefleet
11
20
9
Shrub End
41
78
37
St Andrew's
48
93
45
St Anne's
35
72
37
St John's
13
16
3
Stanway
33
64
31
Tiptree
57
55
-2
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
26
45
19
West Mersea
37
40
3
Wivenhoe Cross
11
13
2
Wivenhoe Quay
32
41
9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
19
23
4
Buckhurst Hill East
37
33
-4
Buckhurst Hill West
80
114
34
Chigwell Row
15
25
10
Chigwell Village
52
60
8
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
45
63
18
Epping Hemnall
57
60
3
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
79
68
-11
Grange Hill
78
111
33
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
20
23
3
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
22
20
-2
Lambourne
14
17
3
Loughton Alderton
31
45
14
Loughton Broadway
65
114
49
Loughton Fairmead
26
35
9
Loughton Forest
264
229
-35
Loughton Roding
26
34
8
Loughton St John's
70
77
7
Loughton St Mary's
67
48
-19
Lower Nazeing
37
60
23
Lower Sheering
28
19
-9
Moreton and Fyfield
16
44
28
North Weald Bassett
37
35
-2
Passingford
18
35
17
Roydon
18
21
3
Shelley
7
29
22
Theydon Bois
35
34
-1
Waltham Abbey High Beach
35
72
37
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
38
49
11
Waltham Abbey North East
40
62
22
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
32
29
-3
Waltham Abbey South West
101
144
43
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
34
63
29
Church Langley
31
51
20
Great Parndon
29
28
-1
Harlow Common
30
60
30
Hunsdon
2
2
Little Parndon and Hare Street
128
165
37
Mark Hall
79
96
17
Netteswell
44
61
17
Old Harlow
92
108
16
Staple Tye
83
59
-24
Sumners and Kingsmoor
58
70
12
Toddbrook
115
376
261
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
19
21
2
Burnham-on-Crouch North
16
15
-1
Burnham-on-Crouch South
142
92
-50
Great Totham
13
23
10
Heybridge East
13
17
4
Heybridge West
31
28
-3
Maldon East
6
4
-2
Maldon North
47
73
26
Maldon South
3
22
19
Maldon West
40
42
2
Mayland
19
32
13
Purleigh
10
22
12
Silver End & Cressing
20
32
12
Southminster
19
26
7
Tillingham
13
6
-7
Tollesbury
2
8
6
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
26
64
38
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
39
40
1
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
23
27
4
Barling and Sutton
4
6
2
Downhall and Rawreth
36
44
8
Foulness and Great Wakering
13
18
5
Grange
11
11
0
Hawkwell North
11
19
8
Hawkwell South
20
15
-5
Hawkwell West
24
39
15
Hockley Central
35
35
0
Hockley North
2
7
5
Hockley West
10
10
0
Hullbridge
22
41
19
Lodge
20
22
2
Rayleigh Central
12
7
-5
Rochford
108
186
78
Sweyne Park
13
9
-4
Trinity
59
73
14
Wheatley
64
123
59
Whitehouse
25
31
6
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
51
79
28
Blenheim Park
70
106
36
Chalkwell
98
111
13
Eastwood Park
61
61
0
Kursaal
298
95
-203
Leigh
175
311
136
Milton
372
416
44
Prittlewell
59
76
17
Shoeburyness
46
95
49
Southchurch
59
88
29
St Laurence
43
55
12
St. Luke's
72
112
40
Thorpe
34
31
-3
Victoria
207
263
56
West Leigh
152
198
46
West Shoebury
38
50
12
Westborough
88
139
51
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
6
7
1
Alton Park
16
23
7
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
18
34
16
Beaumont and Thorpe
30
19
-11
Bockings Elm
15
25
10
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
10
10
0
Brightlingsea
21
27
6
Burrsville
13
21
8
Frinton
33
28
-5
Golf Green
11
9
-2
Great and Little Oakley
6
10
4
Great Bentley
12
20
8
Hamford
5
4
-1
Harwich East
23
35
12
Harwich East Central
36
28
-8
Harwich West
22
17
-5
Harwich West Central
11
22
11
Haven
9
2
-7
Holland and Kirby
18
28
10
Homelands
5
1
-4
Lawford
9
21
12
Little Clacton and Weeley
12
19
7
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
17
32
15
Peter Bruff
16
14
-2
Pier
61
167
106
Ramsey and Parkeston
5
9
4
Rush Green
15
9
-6
St Bartholomews
42
12
-30
St James
111
152
41
St Johns
16
15
-1
St Marys
11
24
13
St Osyth and Point Clear
25
36
11
St Pauls
15
9
-6
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
43
71
28
Walton
23
24
1
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
72
127
55
Belhus
72
130
58
Chadwell St Mary
70
119
49
Chafford and North Stifford
84
106
22
Corringham and Fobbing
35
43
8
East Tilbury
71
107
36
Grays Riverside
190
290
100
Grays Thurrock
103
164
61
Little Thurrock Blackshots
37
57
20
Little Thurrock Rectory
75
111
36
Ockendon
82
112
30
Orsett
60
65
5
South Chafford
103
131
28
Stanford East and Corringham Town
35
59
24
Stanford-le-Hope West
103
124
21
Stifford Clays
37
46
9
The Homesteads
26
52
26
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
89
176
87
Tilbury St Chads
55
100
45
West Thurrock and South Stifford
179
293
114
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
9
8
-1
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
29
49
20
Clavering
15
17
2
Debden & Wimbish
5
12
7
Elsenham & Henham
19
20
1
Felsted & Stebbing
31
32
1
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
11
24
13
Great Dunmow North
22
26
4
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
90
84
-6
Hatfield Heath
18
28
10
High Easter & the Rodings
13
13
0
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
65
55
-10
Newport
17
23
6
Saffron Walden Audley
85
131
46
Saffron Walden Castle
18
24
6
Saffron Walden Shire
26
45
19
Stansted North
55
51
-4
Stansted South & Birchanger
26
27
1
Stort Valley
7
9
2
Takeley
53
86
33
Thaxted & the Eastons
29
61
32
The Sampfords
12
13
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Total companies 2022 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2022 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2021: 1st
London
1,462,539
2nd 2021: 2nd
Greater Manchester
233,019
3rd 2021: 3rd
West Midlands
211,766
4th 2021: 5th
West Yorkshire
151,175
5th 2021: 4th
Essex
148,387
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2021: 1st
London
1,462,539
5th 2021: 4th
Essex
148,387
6th 2021: 6th
Kent
130,283
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
122,123
26th 2021: 26th
Cambridgeshire
57,788
34th 2021: 35th
Suffolk
45,867
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2021: 1st
London
1,462,539
2nd 2021: 2nd
Greater Manchester
233,019
3rd 2021: 3rd
West Midlands
211,766
4th 2021: 5th
West Yorkshire
151,175
5th 2021: 4th
Essex
148,387
6th 2021: 6th
Kent
130,283
7th 2021: 7th
Hampshire
124,249
8th 2021: 8th
Hertfordshire
122,123
9th 2021: 9th
Surrey
107,722
10th 2021: 10th
Lancashire
91,522
11th 2021: 11th
Cheshire
81,809
12th 2021: 12th
Merseyside
81,221
13th 2021: 14th
Buckinghamshire
78,850
14th 2021: 13th
Berkshire
76,700
15th 2021: 15th
Leicestershire
73,507
16th 2021: 17th
South Yorkshire
72,058
17th 2021: 16th
East Sussex
70,836
18th 2021: 19th
North Yorkshire
62,355
19th 2021: 20th
Nottinghamshire
62,142
20th 2021: 18th
Devon
61,854
21st 2021: 25th
Dorset
61,217
22nd 2021: 22nd
Staffordshire
60,009
23rd 2021: 23rd
Somerset
59,531
24th 2021: 21st
West Sussex
58,763
25th 2021: 24th
Gloucestershire
57,852
26th 2021: 26th
Cambridgeshire
57,788
27th 2021: 27th
Derbyshire
55,697
28th 2021: 29th
Lincolnshire
53,143
29th 2021: 28th
Northamptonshire
51,966
30th 2021: 30th
Tyne and Wear
51,640
31st 2021: 31st
Bedfordshire
50,545
32nd 2021: 32nd
Oxfordshire
46,748
33rd 2021: 33rd
Norfolk
45,968
34th 2021: 35th
Suffolk
45,867
35th 2021: 34th
Worcestershire
43,964
36th 2021: 36th
Warwickshire
42,564
37th 2021: 37th
Wiltshire
40,505
38th 2021: 38th
Bristol
37,039
39th 2021: 39th
Durham
35,455
40th 2021: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
29,451
41st 2021: 41st
Shropshire
26,781
42nd 2021: 42nd
Cornwall
25,857
43rd 2021: 43rd
Cumbria
23,003
44th 2021: 44th
Herefordshire
16,412
45th 2021: 45th
Northumberland
12,420
46th 2021: 46th
Isle of Wight
6,423
47th 2021: 47th
Rutland
2,076

Total companies at the end of 2022 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.

2018

17,063 formed

13,119 dissolved

2019

17,816 formed

14,103 dissolved

2020

19,277 formed

11,274 dissolved

2021

18,584 formed

15,408 dissolved

2022

18,955 formed

14,636 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

4.91% vs 2018

6.91% vs 2019

3.38% vs 2020

4.5% vs 2021