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Company Formations in 2021: Hertfordshire

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???? Businesses formed in Hertfordshire during 2021

0.9% more companies in Hertfordshire compared to 2020

New businesses in Hertfordshire mapped

Boroughs

  • ABroxbourne: 1,245
  • BDacorum: 1,593
  • CEast Hertfordshire: 1,423
  • DHertsmere: 1,907
  • ENorth Hertfordshire: 1,061
  • FSt Albans: 1,908
  • GStevenage: 922
  • HThree Rivers: 1,191
  • IWatford: 1,457
  • JWelwyn Hatfield: 1,173

Companies formed in 2021 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 2020: 1st
London
269,246
2nd 2020: 2nd
West Midlands
36,485
3rd 2020: 3rd
Greater Manchester
36,442
4th 2020: 4th
West Yorkshire
22,140
5th 2020: 5th
Essex
18,584
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,899
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2020: 1st
London
269,246
5th 2020: 5th
Essex
18,584
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,899
16th 2020: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,910
23rd 2020: 24th
Cambridgeshire
7,476
24th 2020: 18th
Bedfordshire
7,413
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County
No. Companies formed
Rank County No. Companies formed
1st 2020: 1st
London
269,246
2nd 2020: 2nd
West Midlands
36,485
3rd 2020: 3rd
Greater Manchester
36,442
4th 2020: 4th
West Yorkshire
22,140
5th 2020: 5th
Essex
18,584
6th 2020: 6th
Kent
16,625
7th 2020: 7th
Hampshire
14,512
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
13,899
9th 2020: 9th
Merseyside
13,108
10th 2020: 10th
Lancashire
12,800
11th 2020: 12th
Surrey
11,021
12th 2020: 14th
South Yorkshire
10,815
13th 2020: 13th
Cheshire
9,800
14th 2020: 11th
Leicestershire
9,685
15th 2020: 15th
Berkshire
9,605
16th 2020: 16th
Buckinghamshire
8,910
17th 2020: 17th
Nottinghamshire
8,810
18th 2020: 22nd
Staffordshire
8,541
19th 2020: 20th
East Sussex
7,675
20th 2020: 21st
Tyne and Wear
7,623
21st 2020: 19th
North Yorkshire
7,614
22nd 2020: 26th
Dorset
7,584
23rd 2020: 24th
Cambridgeshire
7,476
24th 2020: 18th
Bedfordshire
7,413
25th 2020: 28th
Worcestershire
7,361
26th 2020: 25th
Derbyshire
7,261
27th 2020: 23rd
Northamptonshire
7,131
28th 2020: 31st
Somerset
7,057
29th 2020: 30th
Lincolnshire
6,903
30th 2020: 27th
Devon
6,825
31st 2020: 29th
West Sussex
6,463
32nd 2020: 32nd
Gloucestershire
6,357
33rd 2020: 35th
Suffolk
5,445
34th 2020: 37th
Norfolk
5,214
35th 2020: 33rd
Bristol
5,125
36th 2020: 38th
Warwickshire
5,117
37th 2020: 36th
Durham
5,065
38th 2020: 34th
Oxfordshire
5,053
39th 2020: 39th
Wiltshire
4,432
40th 2020: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
3,749
41st 2020: 42nd
Cornwall
2,993
42nd 2020: 41st
Shropshire
2,914
43rd 2020: 44th
Herefordshire
2,858
44th 2020: 43rd
Cumbria
2,286
45th 2020: 45th
Northumberland
1,421
46th 2020: 46th
Isle of Wight
697
47th 2020: 47th
Rutland
195

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Type of companies formed in Hertfordshire breakdown

96% Private Limited Companies (13,391 companies)

4% Other company types (508 companies)

Other company types breakdown (508 companies)

Total companies in Hertfordshire by the end of 2021

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Businesses formed in Hertfordshire during 2021

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Businesses dissolved in Hertfordshire during 2021

Due to restrictions related to the COVID-19 pandemic, 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

118,798

businesses registered in Hertfordshire at the end of 2021.

0.9% more companies in Hertfordshire compared to 2020

Surrounding counties 2021 breakdown & comparison

Cambridgeshire

56,346 total businesses
7,476 formed in 2021
6,893 dissolved in 2021

Essex

141,948 total businesses
18,584 formed in 2021
15,408 dissolved in 2021

Buckinghamshire

74,634 total businesses
8,910 formed in 2021
7,932 dissolved in 2021

London

1,397,474 total businesses
269,246 formed in 2021
187,697 dissolved in 2021

Bedfordshire

47,831 total businesses
7,413 formed in 2021
5,675 dissolved in 2021

Hertfordshire

118,798 total businesses
13,899 formed in 2021
13,874 dissolved in 2021

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Ward breakdown data for

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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Broxbourne and Hoddesdon South
109
125
16
Cheshunt North
81
132
51
Cheshunt South and Theobalds
103
125
22
Flamstead End
40
71
31
Goffs Oak
76
61
-15
Hertford Heath
21
22
1
Hoddesdon North
43
52
9
Hoddesdon Town and Rye Park
145
287
142
Rosedale and Bury Green
47
61
14
Waltham Cross
167
234
67
Wormley and Turnford
105
92
-13
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Adeyfield East
109
187
78
Adeyfield West
33
50
17
Aldbury and Wigginton
14
18
4
Apsley and Corner Hall
226
103
-123
Ashridge
17
15
-2
Bennetts End
47
46
-1
Berkhamsted Castle
99
105
6
Berkhamsted East
60
48
-12
Berkhamsted West
33
33
0
Bovingdon Flaunden and Chipperfield
52
61
9
Boxmoor
383
147
-236
Chaulden and Warners End
34
55
21
Gadebridge
22
31
9
Grovehill
53
56
3
Hemel Hempstead Town
123
155
32
Highfield
29
41
12
Kings Langley
45
71
26
Leverstock Green
55
58
3
Nash Mills
25
27
2
Northchurch
14
27
13
Tring Central
35
20
-15
Tring East
151
81
-70
Tring West and Rural
36
43
7
Watling
40
62
22
Woodhall Farm
38
53
15
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bishop's Stortford All Saints
52
56
4
Bishop's Stortford Central
121
167
46
Bishop's Stortford Meads
117
86
-31
Bishop's Stortford Silverleys
17
35
18
Bishop's Stortford South
46
37
-9
Braughing
30
38
8
Buntingford
27
36
9
Datchworth & Aston
15
13
-2
Great Amwell
11
16
5
Hertford Bengeo
65
65
0
Hertford Castle
681
274
-407
Hertford Heath
21
22
1
Hertford Kingsmead
56
89
33
Hertford Rural North
11
12
1
Hertford Rural South
9
18
9
Hertford Sele
23
21
-2
Hunsdon
13
18
5
Little Hadham
30
15
-15
Much Hadham
19
23
4
Mundens and Cottered
15
17
2
Puckeridge
9
13
4
Sawbridgeworth
94
111
17
Stanstead Abbots
31
50
19
Thundridge & Standon
17
27
10
Walkern
14
19
5
Ware Chadwell
45
35
-10
Ware Christchurch
72
70
-2
Ware St Mary's
19
14
-5
Ware Trinity
16
21
5
Watton-at-Stone
11
10
-1
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Aldenham East
46
55
9
Aldenham West
48
80
32
Borehamwood Brookmeadow
158
144
-14
Borehamwood Cowley Hill
85
153
68
Borehamwood Hillside
356
388
32
Borehamwood Kenilworth
129
177
48
Bushey Heath
114
59
-55
Bushey North
72
88
16
Bushey Park
29
38
9
Bushey St James
53
104
51
Elstree
92
75
-17
Potters Bar Furzefield
59
53
-6
Potters Bar Oakmere
130
84
-46
Potters Bar Parkfield
355
330
-25
Shenley
44
79
35
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Arbury
22
15
-7
Baldock East
11
6
-5
Baldock Town
39
38
-1
Cadwell
10
13
3
Chesfield
46
43
-3
Codicote
20
17
-3
Ermine
25
18
-7
Hitchin Bearton
176
208
32
Hitchin Highbury
113
119
6
Hitchin Oughton
15
23
8
Hitchin Priory
24
23
-1
Hitchin Walsworth
32
30
-2
Hitchwood Offa and Hoo
44
52
8
Kimpton
16
12
-4
Knebworth
39
37
-2
Letchworth East
97
125
28
Letchworth Grange
25
30
5
Letchworth South East
26
32
6
Letchworth South West
40
58
18
Letchworth Wilbury
20
22
2
Royston Heath
30
26
-4
Royston Meridian
17
20
3
Royston Palace
76
82
6
Weston and Sandon
20
12
-8
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Ashley
167
69
-98
Batchwood
47
30
-17
Clarence
55
51
-4
Colney Heath
56
64
8
Cunningham
339
65
-274
Harpenden East
42
42
0
Harpenden North
51
94
43
Harpenden South
37
54
17
Harpenden West
111
150
39
London Colney
133
180
47
Marshalswick North
30
102
72
Marshalswick South
77
93
16
Park Street
73
51
-22
Redbourn
53
129
76
Sandridge
32
27
-5
Sopwell
95
67
-28
St Peters
312
421
109
St Stephen
62
64
2
Verulam
73
66
-7
Wheathampstead
104
89
-15
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Bandley Hill
23
31
8
Bedwell
41
60
19
Chells
24
47
23
Longmeadow
20
31
11
Manor
27
33
6
Martins Wood
41
23
-18
Old Town
161
215
54
Pin Green
24
33
9
Roebuck
116
205
89
Shephall
21
39
18
St Nicholas
49
44
-5
Symonds Green
104
123
19
Woodfield
36
38
2
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Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
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Abbots Langley & Bedmond
42
42
0
Carpenders Park
70
111
41
Chorleywood North & Sarratt
53
69
16
Chorleywood South & Maple Cross
70
67
-3
Dickinsons
88
103
15
Durrants
31
63
32
Gade Valley
71
84
13
Leavesden
57
58
1
Moor Park & Eastbury
157
227
70
Oxhey Hall & Hayling
59
50
-9
Penn & Mill End
43
69
26
Rickmansworth Town
185
188
3
South Oxhey
36
62
26
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Callowland
593
130
-463
Central
707
438
-269
Holywell
127
183
56
Leavesden
57
58
1
Leggatts
64
71
7
Meriden
52
89
37
Nascot
129
89
-40
Oxhey
55
60
5
Park
82
68
-14
Stanborough
49
64
15
Tudor
74
100
26
Vicarage
85
94
9
Woodside
38
69
31
Ward
Dissolutions
Incorporations
Net Change
Ward Dissolutions Incorporations Net Change
Brookmans Park and Little Heath
84
89
5
Haldens
65
52
-13
Handside
51
86
35
Hatfield Central
86
89
3
Hatfield East
106
123
17
Hatfield South
62
76
14
Hatfield Villages
108
138
30
Hatfield West
85
101
16
Hollybush
41
56
15
Howlands
45
44
-1
Northaw and Cuffley
21
42
21
Panshanger
33
36
3
Peartree
61
82
21
Sherrards
29
18
-11
Welham Green
47
44
-3
Welwyn East
50
38
-12
Welwyn West
34
59
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Total companies 2021 league table

The counties in England where the most existing companies were based at the end of 2021 and how Hertfordshire compares to them.

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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2020: 1st
London
1,397,474
2nd 2020: 2nd
Greater Manchester
217,557
3rd 2020: 3rd
West Midlands
198,781
4th 2020: 4th
Essex
141,948
5th 2020: 5th
West Yorkshire
141,120
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
118,798
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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2020: 1st
London
1,397,474
4th 2020: 4th
Essex
141,948
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
118,798
14th 2020: 13th
Buckinghamshire
74,634
26th 2020: 26th
Cambridgeshire
56,346
31st 2020: 31st
Bedfordshire
47,831
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County
Total companies
Rank County Total companies
1st 2020: 1st
London
1,397,474
2nd 2020: 2nd
Greater Manchester
217,557
3rd 2020: 3rd
West Midlands
198,781
4th 2020: 4th
Essex
141,948
5th 2020: 5th
West Yorkshire
141,120
6th 2020: 6th
Kent
126,550
7th 2020: 7th
Hampshire
123,584
8th 2020: 8th
Hertfordshire
118,798
9th 2020: 9th
Surrey
106,792
10th 2020: 11th
Lancashire
87,562
11th 2020: 10th
Cheshire
83,426
12th 2020: 12th
Merseyside
78,022
13th 2020: 14th
Berkshire
75,011
14th 2020: 13th
Buckinghamshire
74,634
15th 2020: 15th
Leicestershire
71,867
16th 2020: 16th
East Sussex
70,862
17th 2020: 17th
South Yorkshire
68,227
18th 2020: 19th
Devon
60,022
19th 2020: 18th
North Yorkshire
59,819
20th 2020: 21st
Nottinghamshire
58,780
21st 2020: 20th
West Sussex
57,619
22nd 2020: 24th
Staffordshire
57,556
23rd 2020: 23rd
Somerset
57,300
24th 2020: 22nd
Gloucestershire
56,711
25th 2020: 25th
Dorset
56,465
26th 2020: 26th
Cambridgeshire
56,346
27th 2020: 28th
Derbyshire
53,394
28th 2020: 27th
Northamptonshire
53,149
29th 2020: 29th
Lincolnshire
50,076
30th 2020: 30th
Tyne and Wear
49,266
31st 2020: 31st
Bedfordshire
47,831
32nd 2020: 32nd
Oxfordshire
45,883
33rd 2020: 34th
Norfolk
43,452
34th 2020: 33rd
Worcestershire
42,443
35th 2020: 36th
Suffolk
41,836
36th 2020: 35th
Warwickshire
40,740
37th 2020: 37th
Wiltshire
39,338
38th 2020: 38th
Bristol
36,239
39th 2020: 39th
Durham
33,620
40th 2020: 40th
East Riding of Yorkshire
27,909
41st 2020: 41st
Shropshire
25,765
42nd 2020: 42nd
Cornwall
24,752
43rd 2020: 43rd
Cumbria
22,499
44th 2020: 44th
Herefordshire
14,830
45th 2020: 45th
Northumberland
11,895
46th 2020: 46th
Isle of Wight
6,319
47th 2020: 47th
Rutland
2,056

Total companies at the end of 2021 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.

2017

13,752 formed

11,826 dissolved

2018

15,554 formed

12,657 dissolved

2019

15,231 formed

12,403 dissolved

2020

14,464 formed

10,027 dissolved

2021

13,899 formed

13,874 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

5.27% vs 2017

1.84% vs 2018

4.15% vs 2019

0.9% vs 2020