Inform Direct: Total companies in Essex by the end of 2022

Companies formed in 2022 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 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

Rank

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 people

In Essex

11.0

National Average

12.7

Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (18,402 companies)

3% Other company types (553 companies)

Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) 15.9% (88 companies)
Company Limited by Guarantee 57.5% (318 companies)
Limited Partnership 0.4% (2 companies)
Community Interest Company 21.0% (116 companies)
Other 5.2% (29 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

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
#N A		0	0
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	1

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.

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

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

Company Formations in 2022: Essex

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

Companies formed in 2022 league table

New incorporations in 2022 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2022

meaning there is a total of

Surrounding counties 2022 breakdown & comparison

Ward breakdown data for

Total companies 2022 league table

Total companies at the end of 2022 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

The last 5 years

Company Formations in 2022: Essex

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

Companies formed in 2022 league table

New incorporations in 2022 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2022

meaning there is a total of

Surrounding counties 2022 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 2022 league table

Total companies at the end of 2022 per 1000 people

In Essex

National Average

The last 5 years

Ward breakdown data for