2019
17,816 formed
14,103 dissolved
???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2023
3.6% more companies in Essex compared to 2022
The counties in England where most companies are formed, and how Essex compares.
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st
2022: 1st
|
London |
313,446 |
2nd
2022: 2nd
|
West Midlands |
44,594 |
3rd
2022: 3rd
|
Greater Manchester |
41,222 |
4th
2022: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
24,534 |
5th
2022: 5th
|
Essex |
20,333 |
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st
2022: 1st
|
London |
313,446 |
5th
2022: 5th
|
Essex |
20,333 |
6th
2022: 6th
|
Kent |
17,620 |
8th
2022: 8th
|
Hertfordshire |
14,512 |
20th
2022: 30th
|
Suffolk |
8,934 |
22nd
2022: 25th
|
Cambridgeshire |
8,677 |
Rank | County | No. Companies formed |
---|---|---|
1st 2022: 1st
|
London |
313,446 |
2nd 2022: 2nd
|
West Midlands |
44,594 |
3rd 2022: 3rd
|
Greater Manchester |
41,222 |
4th 2022: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
24,534 |
5th 2022: 5th
|
Essex |
20,333 |
6th 2022: 6th
|
Kent |
17,620 |
7th 2022: 7th
|
Hampshire |
15,385 |
8th 2022: 8th
|
Hertfordshire |
14,512 |
9th 2022: 9th
|
Merseyside |
14,307 |
10th 2022: 10th
|
Lancashire |
14,223 |
11th 2022: 12th
|
Surrey |
12,018 |
12th 2022: 11th
|
South Yorkshire |
11,638 |
13th 2022: 13th
|
Leicestershire |
11,417 |
14th 2022: 14th
|
Berkshire |
10,571 |
15th 2022: 15th
|
Cheshire |
9,952 |
16th 2022: 17th
|
Buckinghamshire |
9,591 |
17th 2022: 16th
|
Nottinghamshire |
9,559 |
18th 2022: 20th
|
North Yorkshire |
9,266 |
19th 2022: 18th
|
Bedfordshire |
9,025 |
20th 2022: 30th
|
Suffolk |
8,934 |
21st 2022: 21st
|
Staffordshire |
8,878 |
22nd 2022: 25th
|
Cambridgeshire |
8,677 |
23rd 2022: 19th
|
Dorset |
8,565 |
24th 2022: 22nd
|
Tyne and Wear |
8,274 |
25th 2022: 23rd
|
Northamptonshire |
8,191 |
26th 2022: 24th
|
Derbyshire |
7,528 |
27th 2022: 26th
|
East Sussex |
7,311 |
28th 2022: 29th
|
Devon |
7,183 |
29th 2022: 28th
|
Lincolnshire |
7,141 |
30th 2022: 31st
|
Gloucestershire |
6,902 |
31st 2022: 32nd
|
West Sussex |
6,678 |
32nd 2022: 27th
|
Somerset |
6,531 |
33rd 2022: 34th
|
Norfolk |
5,723 |
34th 2022: 35th
|
Durham |
5,696 |
35th 2022: 38th
|
Oxfordshire |
5,446 |
36th 2022: 33rd
|
Warwickshire |
5,157 |
37th 2022: 36th
|
Bristol |
5,050 |
38th 2022: 39th
|
Wiltshire |
4,965 |
39th 2022: 37th
|
Worcestershire |
4,808 |
40th 2022: 40th
|
East Riding of Yorkshire |
4,211 |
41st 2022: 41st
|
Shropshire |
3,480 |
42nd 2022: 43rd
|
Cornwall |
3,074 |
43rd 2022: 44th
|
Cumbria |
2,686 |
44th 2022: 42nd
|
Herefordshire |
2,540 |
45th 2022: 45th
|
Northumberland |
1,554 |
46th 2022: 46th
|
Isle of Wight |
757 |
47th 2022: 47th
|
Rutland |
232 |
11.8
14.2
97% Private Limited Companies (19,693 companies)
3% Other company types (640 companies)
Other company types breakdown (640 companies)
????
Businesses formed in Essex during 2023
????
Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2023
153,732
businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2023.
3.6% more companies in Essex compared to 2022
Cambridgeshire
60,023 total businesses
8,677 formed in 2023
6,535 dissolved in 2023
Hertfordshire
122,871 total businesses
14,512 formed in 2023
12,706 dissolved in 2023
Kent
133,898 total businesses
17,620 formed in 2023
14,559 dissolved in 2023
Suffolk
51,083 total businesses
8,934 formed in 2023
5,140 dissolved in 2023
London
1,534,936 total businesses
313,446 formed in 2023
213,520 dissolved in 2023
Essex
153,732 total businesses
20,333 formed in 2023
16,314 dissolved in 2023
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Billericay East |
-5 |
||
Billericay West |
42 |
||
Burstead |
22 |
||
Crouch |
25 |
||
Fryerns |
156 |
||
Laindon Park |
42 |
||
Langdon Hills |
11 |
||
Lee Chapel North |
27 |
||
Nethermayne |
30 |
||
Pitsea North West |
46 |
||
Pitsea South East |
20 |
||
St Martin's |
56 |
||
Vange |
31 |
||
Wickford Castledon |
-13 |
||
Wickford North |
15 |
||
Wickford Park |
36 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bocking Blackwater |
15 |
||
Bocking North |
20 |
||
Bocking South |
-1 |
||
Braintree Central & Beckers Green |
29 |
||
Braintree South |
8 |
||
Braintree West |
7 |
||
Bumpstead |
-4 |
||
Coggeshall |
13 |
||
Gosfield & Greenstead Green |
-65 |
||
Great Notley & Black Notley |
23 |
||
Halstead St Andrew's |
12 |
||
Halstead Trinity |
19 |
||
Hatfield Peverel & Terling |
4 |
||
Hedingham |
29 |
||
Kelvedon & Feering |
0 |
||
Rayne |
-2 |
||
Silver End & Cressing |
22 |
||
Stour Valley North |
8 |
||
Stour Valley South |
-9 |
||
The Colnes |
4 |
||
Three Fields |
4 |
||
Witham Central |
14 |
||
Witham North |
5 |
||
Witham South |
8 |
||
Witham West |
-2 |
||
Yeldham |
2 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Brentwood North |
56 |
||
Brentwood South |
-16 |
||
Brentwood West |
30 |
||
Brizes and Doddinghurst |
16 |
||
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon |
21 |
||
Hutton Central |
35 |
||
Hutton East |
7 |
||
Hutton North |
-5 |
||
Hutton South |
-2 |
||
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing |
17 |
||
Pilgrims Hatch |
14 |
||
Shenfield |
33 |
||
South Weald |
21 |
||
Tipps Cross |
-1 |
||
Warley |
-123 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Appleton |
-2 |
||
Boyce |
6 |
||
Canvey Island Central |
4 |
||
Canvey Island East |
15 |
||
Canvey Island North |
15 |
||
Canvey Island South |
26 |
||
Canvey Island West |
6 |
||
Canvey Island Winter Gardens |
17 |
||
Cedar Hall |
0 |
||
St George's |
16 |
||
St James |
43 |
||
St Mary's |
38 |
||
St Peter's |
22 |
||
Victoria |
43 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield |
-7 |
||
Boreham and The Leighs |
13 |
||
Broomfield and The Walthams |
-5 |
||
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park |
37 |
||
Chelmsford Rural West |
-5 |
||
Galleywood |
8 |
||
Goat Hall |
10 |
||
Great Baddow East |
4 |
||
Great Baddow West |
14 |
||
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon |
5 |
||
Marconi |
-19 |
||
Moulsham and Central |
83 |
||
Moulsham Lodge |
9 |
||
Patching Hall |
24 |
||
Rettendon and Runwell |
31 |
||
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting |
21 |
||
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood |
12 |
||
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville |
70 |
||
Springfield North |
7 |
||
St Andrews |
18 |
||
The Lawns |
5 |
||
Trinity |
11 |
||
Waterhouse Farm |
30 |
||
Writtle |
16 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Berechurch |
5 |
||
Birch and Winstree |
15 |
||
Castle |
-104 |
||
Christ Church |
7 |
||
Copford and West Stanway |
5 |
||
Dedham and Langham |
1 |
||
East Donyland |
-3 |
||
Fordham and Stour |
0 |
||
Great Tey |
8 |
||
Highwoods |
51 |
||
Lexden |
5 |
||
Marks Tey |
-8 |
||
Mile End |
21 |
||
New Town |
58 |
||
Old Heath |
16 |
||
Prettygate |
15 |
||
Pyefleet |
9 |
||
Shrub End |
25 |
||
St Andrew's |
19 |
||
St Anne's |
-6 |
||
St John's |
8 |
||
Stanway |
28 |
||
Tiptree |
7 |
||
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green |
-8 |
||
West Mersea |
14 |
||
Wivenhoe Cross |
9 |
||
Wivenhoe Quay |
-10 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
#N A |
0 |
||
Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing |
22 |
||
Buckhurst Hill East |
-5 |
||
Buckhurst Hill West |
3 |
||
Chigwell Row |
10 |
||
Chigwell Village |
44 |
||
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash |
21 |
||
Epping Hemnall |
16 |
||
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common |
14 |
||
Grange Hill |
65 |
||
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village |
9 |
||
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings |
3 |
||
Lambourne |
9 |
||
Loughton Alderton |
38 |
||
Loughton Broadway |
55 |
||
Loughton Fairmead |
20 |
||
Loughton Forest |
10 |
||
Loughton Roding |
-7 |
||
Loughton St John's |
49 |
||
Loughton St Mary's |
-71 |
||
Lower Nazeing |
-5 |
||
Lower Sheering |
3 |
||
Moreton and Fyfield |
17 |
||
North Weald Bassett |
12 |
||
Passingford |
17 |
||
Roydon |
23 |
||
Shelley |
7 |
||
Theydon Bois |
-19 |
||
Waltham Abbey High Beach |
43 |
||
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane |
30 |
||
Waltham Abbey North East |
42 |
||
Waltham Abbey Paternoster |
19 |
||
Waltham Abbey South West |
135 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Bush Fair |
49 |
||
Church Langley |
22 |
||
Great Parndon |
12 |
||
Harlow Common |
7 |
||
Hunsdon |
0 |
||
Little Parndon and Hare Street |
57 |
||
Mark Hall |
26 |
||
Netteswell |
17 |
||
Old Harlow |
39 |
||
Staple Tye |
2 |
||
Sumners and Kingsmoor |
23 |
||
Toddbrook |
407 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Althorne |
-2 |
||
Burnham-on-Crouch North |
-4 |
||
Burnham-on-Crouch South |
-7 |
||
Great Totham |
-3 |
||
Heybridge East |
6 |
||
Heybridge West |
6 |
||
Maldon East |
3 |
||
Maldon North |
11 |
||
Maldon South |
12 |
||
Maldon West |
6 |
||
Mayland |
20 |
||
Purleigh |
12 |
||
Silver End & Cressing |
22 |
||
Southminster |
-4 |
||
Tillingham |
11 |
||
Tollesbury |
1 |
||
Tolleshunt D'Arcy |
-29 |
||
Wickham Bishops and Woodham |
2 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Ashingdon and Canewdon |
6 |
||
Barling and Sutton |
0 |
||
Downhall and Rawreth |
6 |
||
Foulness and Great Wakering |
13 |
||
Grange |
10 |
||
Hawkwell North |
3 |
||
Hawkwell South |
-5 |
||
Hawkwell West |
4 |
||
Hockley Central |
19 |
||
Hockley North |
-3 |
||
Hockley West |
3 |
||
Hullbridge |
14 |
||
Lodge |
6 |
||
Rayleigh Central |
0 |
||
Rochford |
-23 |
||
Sweyne Park |
10 |
||
Trinity |
11 |
||
Wheatley |
76 |
||
Whitehouse |
-9 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Belfairs |
-127 |
||
Blenheim Park |
33 |
||
Chalkwell |
33 |
||
Eastwood Park |
23 |
||
Kursaal |
-243 |
||
Leigh |
41 |
||
Milton |
-46 |
||
Prittlewell |
21 |
||
Shoeburyness |
45 |
||
Southchurch |
21 |
||
St Laurence |
21 |
||
St. Luke's |
16 |
||
Thorpe |
19 |
||
Victoria |
43 |
||
West Leigh |
101 |
||
West Shoebury |
9 |
||
Westborough |
34 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Alresford |
0 |
||
Alton Park |
13 |
||
Ardleigh and Little Bromley |
0 |
||
Beaumont and Thorpe |
11 |
||
Bockings Elm |
-2 |
||
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix |
3 |
||
Brightlingsea |
-1 |
||
Burrsville |
-9 |
||
Frinton |
-8 |
||
Golf Green |
12 |
||
Great and Little Oakley |
-4 |
||
Great Bentley |
8 |
||
Hamford |
9 |
||
Harwich East |
-9 |
||
Harwich East Central |
9 |
||
Harwich West |
-1 |
||
Harwich West Central |
9 |
||
Haven |
2 |
||
Holland and Kirby |
14 |
||
Homelands |
2 |
||
Lawford |
4 |
||
Little Clacton and Weeley |
10 |
||
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring |
20 |
||
Peter Bruff |
16 |
||
Pier |
28 |
||
Ramsey and Parkeston |
3 |
||
Rush Green |
2 |
||
St Bartholomews |
10 |
||
St James |
43 |
||
St Johns |
2 |
||
St Marys |
4 |
||
St Osyth and Point Clear |
13 |
||
St Pauls |
16 |
||
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley |
55 |
||
Walton |
-4 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Aveley and Uplands |
71 |
||
Belhus |
36 |
||
Chadwell St Mary |
21 |
||
Chafford and North Stifford |
49 |
||
Corringham and Fobbing |
32 |
||
East Tilbury |
60 |
||
Grays Riverside |
47 |
||
Grays Thurrock |
26 |
||
Little Thurrock Blackshots |
22 |
||
Little Thurrock Rectory |
32 |
||
Ockendon |
53 |
||
Orsett |
20 |
||
South Chafford |
7 |
||
Stanford East and Corringham Town |
11 |
||
Stanford-le-Hope West |
33 |
||
Stifford Clays |
25 |
||
The Homesteads |
9 |
||
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park |
45 |
||
Tilbury St Chads |
37 |
||
West Thurrock and South Stifford |
15 |
Ward | Dissolutions | Incorporations | Net Change |
---|---|---|---|
Ashdon |
-2 |
||
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys |
29 |
||
Clavering |
-2 |
||
Debden & Wimbish |
12 |
||
Elsenham & Henham |
8 |
||
Felsted & Stebbing |
2 |
||
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow |
11 |
||
Great Dunmow North |
-10 |
||
Great Dunmow South & Barnston |
21 |
||
Hatfield Heath |
-9 |
||
High Easter & the Rodings |
7 |
||
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts |
-5 |
||
Newport |
-6 |
||
Saffron Walden Audley |
-2 |
||
Saffron Walden Castle |
9 |
||
Saffron Walden Shire |
9 |
||
Stansted North |
-4 |
||
Stansted South & Birchanger |
13 |
||
Stort Valley |
6 |
||
Takeley |
26 |
||
Thaxted & the Eastons |
12 |
||
The Sampfords |
10 |
The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2023 and how Essex compares to them.
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st
2022: 1st
|
London |
1,534,936 |
2nd
2022: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
244,408 |
3rd
2022: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
227,431 |
4th
2022: 5th
|
Essex |
153,732 |
5th
2022: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
153,003 |
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st
2022: 1st
|
London |
1,534,936 |
4th
2022: 5th
|
Essex |
153,732 |
6th
2022: 6th
|
Kent |
133,898 |
8th
2022: 8th
|
Hertfordshire |
122,871 |
24th
2022: 26th
|
Cambridgeshire |
60,023 |
32nd
2022: 34th
|
Suffolk |
51,083 |
Rank | County | Total companies |
---|---|---|
1st 2022: 1st
|
London |
1,534,936 |
2nd 2022: 2nd
|
Greater Manchester |
244,408 |
3rd 2022: 3rd
|
West Midlands |
227,431 |
4th 2022: 5th
|
Essex |
153,732 |
5th 2022: 4th
|
West Yorkshire |
153,003 |
6th 2022: 6th
|
Kent |
133,898 |
7th 2022: 7th
|
Hampshire |
126,128 |
8th 2022: 8th
|
Hertfordshire |
122,871 |
9th 2022: 9th
|
Surrey |
109,469 |
10th 2022: 10th
|
Lancashire |
95,511 |
11th 2022: 12th
|
Merseyside |
83,450 |
12th 2022: 11th
|
Cheshire |
82,175 |
13th 2022: 13th
|
Buckinghamshire |
78,961 |
14th 2022: 14th
|
Berkshire |
78,581 |
15th 2022: 15th
|
Leicestershire |
75,930 |
16th 2022: 16th
|
South Yorkshire |
73,897 |
17th 2022: 17th
|
East Sussex |
71,059 |
18th 2022: 18th
|
North Yorkshire |
65,895 |
19th 2022: 19th
|
Nottinghamshire |
64,763 |
20th 2022: 20th
|
Devon |
63,364 |
21st 2022: 21st
|
Dorset |
63,266 |
22nd 2022: 22nd
|
Staffordshire |
61,360 |
23rd 2022: 23rd
|
Somerset |
60,186 |
24th 2022: 26th
|
Cambridgeshire |
60,023 |
25th 2022: 24th
|
West Sussex |
59,896 |
26th 2022: 25th
|
Gloucestershire |
59,830 |
27th 2022: 27th
|
Derbyshire |
57,297 |
28th 2022: 28th
|
Lincolnshire |
54,523 |
29th 2022: 29th
|
Northamptonshire |
53,911 |
30th 2022: 30th
|
Tyne and Wear |
53,391 |
31st 2022: 31st
|
Bedfordshire |
52,721 |
32nd 2022: 34th
|
Suffolk |
51,083 |
33rd 2022: 33rd
|
Norfolk |
48,437 |
34th 2022: 32nd
|
Oxfordshire |
48,030 |
35th 2022: 35th
|
Worcestershire |
45,794 |
36th 2022: 36th
|
Warwickshire |
43,587 |
37th 2022: 37th
|
Wiltshire |
42,004 |
38th 2022: 39th
|
Durham |
37,332 |
39th 2022: 38th
|
Bristol |
37,161 |
40th 2022: 40th
|
East Riding of Yorkshire |
30,108 |
41st 2022: 41st
|
Shropshire |
28,037 |
42nd 2022: 42nd
|
Cornwall |
26,998 |
43rd 2022: 43rd
|
Cumbria |
23,719 |
44th 2022: 44th
|
Herefordshire |
16,164 |
45th 2022: 45th
|
Northumberland |
12,830 |
46th 2022: 46th
|
Isle of Wight |
6,580 |
47th 2022: 47th
|
Rutland |
2,133 |
88.9
86.6
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.
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
2023
20,333 formed
16,314 dissolved
Overall growth compared to previous year
6.91% vs 2019
3.38% vs 2020
4.54% vs 2021
3.6% vs 2022