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Company Formations in 2018: Hertfordshire

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???? Businesses formed in Hertfordshire during 2018

5.3% more companies in Hertfordshire compared to 2017

New businesses in Hertfordshire mapped

Boroughs

  • ABroxbourne: 1,039
  • BDacorum: 2,386
  • CEast Hertfordshire: 2,950
  • DHertsmere: 2,000
  • ENorth Hertfordshire: 1,155
  • FSt Albans: 1,676
  • GStevenage: 667
  • HThree Rivers: 1,001
  • IWatford: 1,592
  • JWelwyn Hatfield: 1,070

Companies formed in 2018 league table

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

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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2017: 1st
London
217,617
2nd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
32,571
3rd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
31,875
4th 2017: 4th
West Yorkshire
18,204
5th 2017: 5th
Essex
17,063
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
15,554
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2017: 1st
London
217,617
5th 2017: 5th
Essex
17,063
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
15,554
14th 2017: 17th
Buckinghamshire
8,915
21st 2017: 23rd
Bedfordshire
7,013
24th 2017: 25th
Cambridgeshire
6,786
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2017: 1st
London
217,617
2nd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
32,571
3rd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
31,875
4th 2017: 4th
West Yorkshire
18,204
5th 2017: 5th
Essex
17,063
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
15,554
7th 2017: 6th
Kent
15,057
8th 2017: 8th
Hampshire
14,244
9th 2017: 9th
Cheshire
13,259
10th 2017: 10th
Merseyside
11,451
11th 2017: 12th
Lancashire
11,291
12th 2017: 11th
Surrey
11,179
13th 2017: 15th
Berkshire
9,166
14th 2017: 17th
Buckinghamshire
8,915
15th 2017: 13th
Leicestershire
8,896
16th 2017: 16th
South Yorkshire
8,542
17th 2017: 20th
Dorset
8,314
18th 2017: 14th
Northamptonshire
7,630
19th 2017: 19th
East Sussex
7,462
20th 2017: 21st
Nottinghamshire
7,429
21st 2017: 23rd
Bedfordshire
7,013
22nd 2017: 18th
Worcestershire
6,889
23rd 2017: 22nd
North Yorkshire
6,822
24th 2017: 25th
Cambridgeshire
6,786
25th 2017: 26th
Tyne and Wear
6,669
26th 2017: 24th
Staffordshire
6,474
27th 2017: 27th
Derbyshire
6,167
28th 2017: 29th
West Sussex
6,048
29th 2017: 31st
Lincolnshire
5,910
30th 2017: 28th
Devon
5,908
31st 2017: 30th
Gloucestershire
5,719
32nd 2017: 32nd
Somerset
5,537
33rd 2017: 40th
Durham
5,223
34th 2017: 36th
Warwickshire
4,755
35th 2017: 34th
Bristol
4,635
36th 2017: 37th
Oxfordshire
4,631
37th 2017: 38th
Norfolk
4,542
38th 2017: 33rd
Wiltshire
4,348
39th 2017: 39th
Suffolk
4,292
40th 2017: 35th
East Riding of Yorkshire
3,195
41st 2017: 41st
Cornwall
2,829
42nd 2017: 42nd
Shropshire
2,634
43rd 2017: 43rd
Cumbria
2,259
44th 2017: 44th
Northumberland
1,422
45th 2017: 45th
Herefordshire
1,054
46th 2017: 46th
Isle of Wight
645
47th 2017: 47th
Rutland
198

New incorporations in 2018 per 1000 Man standing people

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13.9

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Type of companies formed in Hertfordshire breakdown

98% Private Limited Companies (15,224 companies)

2% Other company types (330 companies)

Other company types breakdown (330 companies)

Total companies in Hertfordshire by the end of 2018

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Businesses formed in Hertfordshire during 2018

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Businesses dissolved in Hertfordshire during 2018

meaning there is a total of

111,063

businesses registered in Hertfordshire at the end of 2018.

5.3% more companies in Hertfordshire compared to 2017

Surrounding counties 2018 breakdown & comparison

Cambridgeshire

48,390 total businesses
6,786 formed in 2018
4,809 dissolved in 2018

Essex

122,421 total businesses
17,063 formed in 2018
13,119 dissolved in 2018

Buckinghamshire

69,301 total businesses
8,915 formed in 2018
6,799 dissolved in 2018

London

1,163,777 total businesses
217,617 formed in 2018
155,611 dissolved in 2018

Bedfordshire

42,015 total businesses
7,013 formed in 2018
4,534 dissolved in 2018

Hertfordshire

111,063 total businesses
15,554 formed in 2018
12,657 dissolved in 2018

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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South
94
129
35
Cheshunt North
73
84
11
Cheshunt South and Theobalds
85
117
32
Flamstead End
32
42
10
Goffs Oak
49
73
24
Hertford Heath
20
17
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Hoddesdon North
46
68
22
Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park
130
213
83
Rosedale and Bury Green
35
55
20
Waltham Cross
168
202
34
Wormley and Turnford
52
56
4
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Adeyfield East
64
108
44
Adeyfield West
16
30
14
Aldbury and Wigginton
9
15
6
Apsley and Corner Hall
90
112
22
Ashridge
12
19
7
Bennetts End
31
55
24
Berkhamsted Castle
86
159
73
Berkhamsted East
63
78
15
Berkhamsted West
22
44
22
Bovingdon Flaunden and Chipperfield
50
78
28
Boxmoor
238
705
467
Chaulden and Warners End
22
49
27
Gadebridge
18
24
6
Grovehill
43
43
0
Hemel Hempstead Town
97
150
53
Highfield
34
34
0
Kings Langley
34
41
7
Leverstock Green
30
50
20
Nash Mills
19
20
1
Northchurch
13
9
-4
Tring Central
20
14
-6
Tring East
32
391
359
Tring West and Rural
28
70
42
Watling
40
43
3
Woodhall Farm
32
45
13
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bishop's Stortford All Saints
28
50
22
Bishop's Stortford Central
116
121
5
Bishop's Stortford Meads
60
127
67
Bishop's Stortford Silverleys
49
32
-17
Bishop's Stortford South
21
40
19
Braughing
26
37
11
Buntingford
26
38
12
Datchworth & Aston
12
12
0
Great Amwell
7
11
4
Hertford Bengeo
53
65
12
Hertford Castle
1503
1782
279
Hertford Heath
20
17
-3
Hertford Kingsmead
74
61
-13
Hertford Rural North
13
16
3
Hertford Rural South
10
22
12
Hertford Sele
16
28
12
Hunsdon
9
15
6
Little Hadham
22
15
-7
Much Hadham
21
29
8
Mundens and Cottered
12
24
12
Puckeridge
18
16
-2
Sawbridgeworth
119
126
7
Stanstead Abbots
17
34
17
Thundridge & Standon
16
31
15
Walkern
17
17
0
Ware Chadwell
33
48
15
Ware Christchurch
55
91
36
Ware St Mary's
12
10
-2
Ware Trinity
16
16
0
Watton-at-Stone
18
19
1
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aldenham East
39
61
22
Aldenham West
51
62
11
Borehamwood Brookmeadow
182
164
-18
Borehamwood Cowley Hill
59
69
10
Borehamwood Hillside
426
337
-89
Borehamwood Kenilworth
123
124
1
Bushey Heath
106
62
-44
Bushey North
64
95
31
Bushey Park
46
40
-6
Bushey St James
41
46
5
Elstree
124
131
7
Potters Bar Furzefield
218
79
-139
Potters Bar Oakmere
93
135
42
Potters Bar Parkfield
272
547
275
Shenley
37
48
11
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Arbury
11
16
5
Baldock East
6
11
5
Baldock Town
25
43
18
Cadwell
8
15
7
Chesfield
46
53
7
Codicote
13
16
3
Ermine
19
20
1
Hitchin Bearton
144
211
67
Hitchin Highbury
88
166
78
Hitchin Oughton
22
14
-8
Hitchin Priory
23
22
-1
Hitchin Walsworth
31
41
10
Hitchwood Offa and Hoo
34
47
13
Kimpton
8
19
11
Knebworth
28
44
16
Letchworth East
80
123
43
Letchworth Grange
23
35
12
Letchworth South East
18
27
9
Letchworth South West
45
58
13
Letchworth Wilbury
23
23
0
Royston Heath
35
37
2
Royston Meridian
10
20
10
Royston Palace
70
67
-3
Weston and Sandon
12
27
15
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashley
124
64
-60
Batchwood
30
52
22
Clarence
51
63
12
Colney Heath
48
55
7
Cunningham
22
133
111
Harpenden East
37
47
10
Harpenden North
63
88
25
Harpenden South
28
37
9
Harpenden West
91
111
20
London Colney
214
149
-65
Marshalswick North
34
36
2
Marshalswick South
111
112
1
Park Street
42
49
7
Redbourn
47
61
14
Sandridge
31
33
2
Sopwell
46
66
20
St Peters
262
320
58
St Stephen
40
55
15
Verulam
63
87
24
Wheathampstead
77
58
-19
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bandley Hill
22
30
8
Bedwell
61
45
-16
Chells
30
24
-6
Longmeadow
20
15
-5
Manor
25
31
6
Martins Wood
28
27
-1
Old Town
103
138
35
Pin Green
31
33
2
Roebuck
43
93
50
Shephall
26
30
4
St Nicholas
47
54
7
Symonds Green
110
118
8
Woodfield
31
29
-2
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Abbots Langley & Bedmond
35
36
1
Carpenders Park
49
84
35
Chorleywood North & Sarratt
46
47
1
Chorleywood South & Maple Cross
39
56
17
Dickinsons
106
56
-50
Durrants
23
39
16
Gade Valley
76
90
14
Leavesden
71
59
-12
Moor Park & Eastbury
131
164
33
Oxhey Hall & Hayling
38
67
29
Penn & Mill End
35
48
13
Rickmansworth Town
220
205
-15
South Oxhey
32
53
21
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Callowland
111
158
47
Central
521
515
-6
Holywell
213
221
8
Leavesden
71
59
-12
Leggatts
42
79
37
Meriden
42
66
24
Nascot
47
87
40
Oxhey
46
57
11
Park
68
82
14
Stanborough
38
46
8
Tudor
567
129
-438
Vicarage
88
104
16
Woodside
38
45
7
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brookmans Park and Little Heath
47
82
35
Haldens
47
53
6
Handside
70
46
-24
Hatfield Central
99
93
-6
Hatfield East
99
130
31
Hatfield South
42
66
24
Hatfield Villages
81
126
45
Hatfield West
57
86
29
Hollybush
25
52
27
Howlands
33
37
4
Northaw and Cuffley
22
40
18
Panshanger
19
37
18
Peartree
52
75
23
Sherrards
22
24
2
Welham Green
31
43
12
Welwyn East
36
41
5
Welwyn West
31
39
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Total companies 2018 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2018 and how Hertfordshire compares to them.

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Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2017: 1st
London
1,163,777
2nd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
184,396
3rd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
167,807
4th 2017: 4th
Essex
122,421
5th 2017: 5th
West Yorkshire
118,705
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
111,063
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2017: 1st
London
1,163,777
4th 2017: 4th
Essex
122,421
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
111,063
12th 2017: 14th
Buckinghamshire
69,301
26th 2017: 27th
Cambridgeshire
48,390
31st 2017: 32nd
Bedfordshire
42,015
Rank
County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2017: 1st
London
1,163,777
2nd 2017: 2nd
Greater Manchester
184,396
3rd 2017: 3rd
West Midlands
167,807
4th 2017: 4th
Essex
122,421
5th 2017: 5th
West Yorkshire
118,705
6th 2017: 7th
Hertfordshire
111,063
7th 2017: 6th
Hampshire
110,793
8th 2017: 8th
Kent
108,910
9th 2017: 9th
Surrey
98,968
10th 2017: 10th
Cheshire
78,274
11th 2017: 11th
Lancashire
75,763
12th 2017: 14th
Buckinghamshire
69,301
13th 2017: 12th
Berkshire
68,855
14th 2017: 13th
East Sussex
66,405
15th 2017: 15th
Merseyside
65,551
16th 2017: 16th
Leicestershire
60,027
17th 2017: 17th
South Yorkshire
58,193
18th 2017: 18th
Dorset
56,307
19th 2017: 19th
North Yorkshire
52,860
20th 2017: 20th
West Sussex
51,556
21st 2017: 22nd
Devon
51,129
22nd 2017: 21st
Gloucestershire
50,643
23rd 2017: 25th
Nottinghamshire
50,491
24th 2017: 24th
Somerset
49,396
25th 2017: 23rd
Staffordshire
48,752
26th 2017: 27th
Cambridgeshire
48,390
27th 2017: 28th
Derbyshire
46,632
28th 2017: 26th
Northamptonshire
44,212
29th 2017: 29th
Lincolnshire
43,713
30th 2017: 30th
Tyne and Wear
42,534
31st 2017: 32nd
Bedfordshire
42,015
32nd 2017: 31st
Oxfordshire
40,930
33rd 2017: 33rd
Worcestershire
37,800
34th 2017: 35th
Norfolk
37,466
35th 2017: 36th
Warwickshire
37,025
36th 2017: 34th
Wiltshire
36,714
37th 2017: 37th
Suffolk
35,510
38th 2017: 38th
Bristol
32,794
39th 2017: 39th
Durham
28,771
40th 2017: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
24,661
41st 2017: 41st
Shropshire
22,421
42nd 2017: 42nd
Cornwall
21,904
43rd 2017: 43rd
Cumbria
20,916
44th 2017: 44th
Northumberland
10,423
45th 2017: 45th
Herefordshire
9,243
46th 2017: 46th
Isle of Wight
5,417
47th 2017: 47th
Rutland
1,840

Total companies at the end of 2018 per 1000 Person people

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The last 5 years

How the total number of companies in Hertfordshire has changed over the last 5 years as new companies have been formed and some existing companies dissolved.

2014

13,336 formed

8,482 dissolved

2015

14,575 formed

8,688 dissolved

2016

17,671 formed

11,308 dissolved

2017

13,752 formed

11,826 dissolved

2018

15,554 formed

12,657 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

8.3% vs 2014

8% vs 2015

0.77% vs 2016

5.3% vs 2017