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Company Formations in 2023: Essex

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???? Businesses formed in Essex during 2023

3.6% more companies in Essex compared to 2022

New businesses in Essex mapped

Boroughs

  • ABasildon: 2,162
  • BBraintree: 1,132
  • CBrentwood: 1,059
  • DCastle Point: 897
  • EChelmsford: 1,790
  • FColchester: 1,776
  • GEpping Forest: 2,217
  • HHarlow: 1,414
  • IMaldon: 520
  • JRochford: 729
  • KSouthend-on-Sea: 2,385
  • LTendring: 901
  • MThurrock: 2,489
  • NUttlesford: 835

Companies formed in 2023 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 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
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
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

New incorporations in 2023 per 1000 Man standing people

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Type of companies formed in Essex breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (19,693 companies)

3% Other company types (640 companies)

Other company types breakdown (640 companies)

Total companies in Essex by the end of 2023

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Businesses formed in Essex during 2023

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Businesses dissolved in Essex during 2023

meaning there is a total of

153,732

businesses registered in Essex at the end of 2023.

3.6% more companies in Essex compared to 2022

Surrounding counties 2023 breakdown & comparison

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

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Ward breakdown data for

Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Billericay East
121
116
-5
Billericay West
174
216
42
Burstead
53
75
22
Crouch
58
83
25
Fryerns
252
408
156
Laindon Park
88
130
42
Langdon Hills
50
61
11
Lee Chapel North
79
106
27
Nethermayne
63
93
30
Pitsea North West
87
133
46
Pitsea South East
102
122
20
St Martin's
95
151
56
Vange
55
86
31
Wickford Castledon
73
60
-13
Wickford North
195
210
15
Wickford Park
76
112
36
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bocking Blackwater
36
51
15
Bocking North
29
49
20
Bocking South
48
47
-1
Braintree Central & Beckers Green
125
154
29
Braintree South
20
28
8
Braintree West
25
32
7
Bumpstead
22
18
-4
Coggeshall
36
49
13
Gosfield & Greenstead Green
77
12
-65
Great Notley & Black Notley
40
63
23
Halstead St Andrew's
35
47
12
Halstead Trinity
42
61
19
Hatfield Peverel & Terling
30
34
4
Hedingham
32
61
29
Kelvedon & Feering
61
61
0
Rayne
17
15
-2
Silver End & Cressing
17
39
22
Stour Valley North
12
20
8
Stour Valley South
23
14
-9
The Colnes
39
43
4
Three Fields
29
33
4
Witham Central
82
96
14
Witham North
29
34
5
Witham South
28
36
8
Witham West
18
16
-2
Yeldham
18
20
2
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brentwood North
86
142
56
Brentwood South
163
147
-16
Brentwood West
72
102
30
Brizes and Doddinghurst
46
62
16
Herongate Ingrave and West Horndon
22
43
21
Hutton Central
84
119
35
Hutton East
20
27
7
Hutton North
31
26
-5
Hutton South
21
19
-2
Ingatestone Fryerning and Mountnessing
51
68
17
Pilgrims Hatch
33
47
14
Shenfield
51
84
33
South Weald
16
37
21
Tipps Cross
25
24
-1
Warley
235
112
-123
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Appleton
38
36
-2
Boyce
26
32
6
Canvey Island Central
77
81
4
Canvey Island East
30
45
15
Canvey Island North
28
43
15
Canvey Island South
30
56
26
Canvey Island West
35
41
6
Canvey Island Winter Gardens
30
47
17
Cedar Hall
32
32
0
St George's
25
41
16
St James
122
165
43
St Mary's
101
139
38
St Peter's
57
79
22
Victoria
231
274
43
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bicknacre and East and West Hanningfield
46
39
-7
Boreham and The Leighs
32
45
13
Broomfield and The Walthams
62
57
-5
Chelmer Village and Beaulieu Park
56
93
37
Chelmsford Rural West
26
21
-5
Galleywood
20
28
8
Goat Hall
29
39
10
Great Baddow East
39
43
4
Great Baddow West
22
36
14
Little Baddow Danbury and Sandon
45
50
5
Marconi
185
166
-19
Moulsham and Central
325
408
83
Moulsham Lodge
20
29
9
Patching Hall
51
75
24
Rettendon and Runwell
31
62
31
South Hanningfield Stock and Margaretting
49
70
21
South Woodham-Chetwood and Collingwood
25
37
12
South Woodham-Elmwood and Woodville
81
151
70
Springfield North
35
42
7
St Andrews
45
63
18
The Lawns
28
33
5
Trinity
55
66
11
Waterhouse Farm
73
103
30
Writtle
28
44
16
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Berechurch
49
54
5
Birch and Winstree
20
35
15
Castle
405
301
-104
Christ Church
80
87
7
Copford and West Stanway
20
25
5
Dedham and Langham
90
91
1
East Donyland
21
18
-3
Fordham and Stour
35
35
0
Great Tey
26
34
8
Highwoods
79
130
51
Lexden
29
34
5
Marks Tey
24
16
-8
Mile End
76
97
21
New Town
92
150
58
Old Heath
43
59
16
Prettygate
30
45
15
Pyefleet
13
22
9
Shrub End
50
75
25
St Andrew's
82
101
19
St Anne's
57
51
-6
St John's
17
25
8
Stanway
49
77
28
Tiptree
65
72
7
West Bergholt and Eight Ash Green
46
38
-8
West Mersea
40
54
14
Wivenhoe Cross
8
17
9
Wivenhoe Quay
43
33
-10
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
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Broadley Common Epping Upland and Nazeing
9
31
22
Buckhurst Hill East
34
29
-5
Buckhurst Hill West
124
127
3
Chigwell Row
12
22
10
Chigwell Village
45
89
44
Chipping Ongar Greensted and Marden Ash
48
69
21
Epping Hemnall
58
74
16
Epping Lindsey and Thornwood Common
63
77
14
Grange Hill
86
151
65
Hastingwood Matching and Sheering Village
19
28
9
High Ongar Willingale and The Rodings
25
28
3
Lambourne
14
23
9
Loughton Alderton
32
70
38
Loughton Broadway
72
127
55
Loughton Fairmead
22
42
20
Loughton Forest
226
236
10
Loughton Roding
36
29
-7
Loughton St John's
51
100
49
Loughton St Mary's
130
59
-71
Lower Nazeing
53
48
-5
Lower Sheering
22
25
3
Moreton and Fyfield
34
51
17
North Weald Bassett
24
36
12
Passingford
19
36
17
Roydon
7
30
23
Shelley
20
27
7
Theydon Bois
43
24
-19
Waltham Abbey High Beach
50
93
43
Waltham Abbey Honey Lane
33
63
30
Waltham Abbey North East
34
76
42
Waltham Abbey Paternoster
22
41
19
Waltham Abbey South West
121
256
135
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bush Fair
36
85
49
Church Langley
37
59
22
Great Parndon
30
42
12
Harlow Common
50
57
7
Hunsdon
1
1
0
Little Parndon and Hare Street
116
173
57
Mark Hall
94
120
26
Netteswell
48
65
17
Old Harlow
105
144
39
Staple Tye
57
59
2
Sumners and Kingsmoor
44
67
23
Toddbrook
135
542
407
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Althorne
25
23
-2
Burnham-on-Crouch North
18
14
-4
Burnham-on-Crouch South
110
103
-7
Great Totham
18
15
-3
Heybridge East
15
21
6
Heybridge West
28
34
6
Maldon East
4
7
3
Maldon North
54
65
11
Maldon South
13
25
12
Maldon West
31
37
6
Mayland
24
44
20
Purleigh
16
28
12
Silver End & Cressing
17
39
22
Southminster
29
25
-4
Tillingham
6
17
11
Tollesbury
6
7
1
Tolleshunt D'Arcy
49
20
-29
Wickham Bishops and Woodham
32
34
2
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashingdon and Canewdon
21
27
6
Barling and Sutton
8
8
0
Downhall and Rawreth
31
37
6
Foulness and Great Wakering
18
31
13
Grange
9
19
10
Hawkwell North
25
28
3
Hawkwell South
17
12
-5
Hawkwell West
23
27
4
Hockley Central
40
59
19
Hockley North
6
3
-3
Hockley West
10
13
3
Hullbridge
29
43
14
Lodge
14
20
6
Rayleigh Central
11
11
0
Rochford
186
163
-23
Sweyne Park
18
28
10
Trinity
55
66
11
Wheatley
79
155
76
Whitehouse
44
35
-9
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Belfairs
212
85
-127
Blenheim Park
95
128
33
Chalkwell
110
143
33
Eastwood Park
55
78
23
Kursaal
354
111
-243
Leigh
247
288
41
Milton
439
393
-46
Prittlewell
62
83
21
Shoeburyness
76
121
45
Southchurch
54
75
21
St Laurence
43
64
21
St. Luke's
93
109
16
Thorpe
32
51
19
Victoria
231
274
43
West Leigh
161
262
101
West Shoebury
37
46
9
Westborough
116
150
34
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Alresford
13
13
0
Alton Park
13
26
13
Ardleigh and Little Bromley
32
32
0
Beaumont and Thorpe
12
23
11
Bockings Elm
22
20
-2
Bradfield Wrabness and Wix
5
8
3
Brightlingsea
28
27
-1
Burrsville
23
14
-9
Frinton
28
20
-8
Golf Green
8
20
12
Great and Little Oakley
14
10
-4
Great Bentley
13
21
8
Hamford
6
15
9
Harwich East
30
21
-9
Harwich East Central
38
47
9
Harwich West
17
16
-1
Harwich West Central
12
21
9
Haven
2
4
2
Holland and Kirby
15
29
14
Homelands
4
6
2
Lawford
16
20
4
Little Clacton and Weeley
13
23
10
Manningtree Mistley Little Bentley and Tendring
23
43
20
Peter Bruff
9
25
16
Pier
84
112
28
Ramsey and Parkeston
10
13
3
Rush Green
15
17
2
St Bartholomews
13
23
10
St James
122
165
43
St Johns
8
10
2
St Marys
17
21
4
St Osyth and Point Clear
30
43
13
St Pauls
16
32
16
Thorrington Frating Elmstead and Great Bromley
39
94
55
Walton
20
16
-4
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aveley and Uplands
83
154
71
Belhus
92
128
36
Chadwell St Mary
86
107
21
Chafford and North Stifford
88
137
49
Corringham and Fobbing
28
60
32
East Tilbury
70
130
60
Grays Riverside
230
277
47
Grays Thurrock
122
148
26
Little Thurrock Blackshots
48
70
22
Little Thurrock Rectory
92
124
32
Ockendon
94
147
53
Orsett
69
89
20
South Chafford
110
117
7
Stanford East and Corringham Town
38
49
11
Stanford-le-Hope West
95
128
33
Stifford Clays
37
62
25
The Homesteads
36
45
9
Tilbury Riverside and Thurrock Park
114
159
45
Tilbury St Chads
58
95
37
West Thurrock and South Stifford
248
263
15
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashdon
8
6
-2
Broad Oak & the Hallingburys
32
61
29
Clavering
14
12
-2
Debden & Wimbish
7
19
12
Elsenham & Henham
17
25
8
Felsted & Stebbing
37
39
2
Flitch Green & Little Dunmow
10
21
11
Great Dunmow North
31
21
-10
Great Dunmow South & Barnston
80
101
21
Hatfield Heath
28
19
-9
High Easter & the Rodings
11
18
7
Littlebury Chesterford & Wenden Lofts
63
58
-5
Newport
28
22
-6
Saffron Walden Audley
111
109
-2
Saffron Walden Castle
13
22
9
Saffron Walden Shire
31
40
9
Stansted North
38
34
-4
Stansted South & Birchanger
31
44
13
Stort Valley
7
13
6
Takeley
46
72
26
Thaxted & the Eastons
45
57
12
The Sampfords
12
22
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Total companies 2023 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2023 and how Essex compares to them.

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County
Total companies
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
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
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

Total companies at the end of 2023 per 1000 Person people

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In Essex

88.9

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National Average

86.6

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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.

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