Company Formations in 2021: Kent

???? Businesses formed in Kent during 2021

3.1% more companies in Kent compared to 2020

New businesses in Kent mapped

Boroughs

AAshford: 1,095
BCanterbury: 1,279
CDartford: 1,466
DDover: 699
EGravesham: 1,176
FMaidstone: 1,733
GMedway: 2,604
HSevenoaks: 1,253
IShepway: 824
JSwale: 897
KThanet: 1,198
LTonbridge and Malling: 1,247
MTunbridge Wells: 1,102

Companies formed in 2021 league table

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

Rank

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

Rank

County

No. Companies formed

Rank	County	No. Companies formed
1st 2020: 1st	London	269,246
5th 2020: 5th	Essex	18,584
6th 2020: 6th	Kent	16,625
11th 2020: 12th	Surrey	11,021
19th 2020: 20th	East Sussex	7,675
31st 2020: 29th	West Sussex	6,463

Rank

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

New incorporations in 2021 per 1000 people

In Kent

9.6

National Average

12.2

Type of companies formed in Kent breakdown

97% Private Limited Companies (16,102 companies)

3% Other company types (523 companies)

Public Limited Company 1.3% (7 companies)
Limited Liability Partnership (LLP) 22.6% (118 companies)
Company Limited by Guarantee 51.6% (270 companies)
Limited Partnership 0.4% (2 companies)
Community Interest Company 23.7% (124 companies)
Other 0.4% (2 companies)

Other company types breakdown (523 companies)

Total companies in Kent by the end of 2021

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Businesses formed in Kent during 2021

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Businesses dissolved in Kent 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

126,550

businesses registered in Kent at the end of 2021.

3.1% more companies in Kent compared to 2020

Surrounding counties 2021 breakdown & comparison

East Sussex

70,862 total businesses
7,675 formed in 2021
7,160 dissolved in 2021

Essex

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

West Sussex

57,619 total businesses
6,463 formed in 2021
5,538 dissolved in 2021

Surrey

106,792 total businesses
11,021 formed in 2021
10,487 dissolved in 2021

London

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

Kent

126,550 total businesses
16,625 formed in 2021
14,027 dissolved in 2021

Ward breakdown data for

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Aylesford Green	17	17	0
Beaver	23	32	9
Biddenden	13	18	5
Bockhanger	3	11	8
Boughton Aluph and Eastwell	52	40	-12
Bybrook	7	7	0
Charing	48	106	58
Downs North	12	15	3
Downs West	21	20	-1
Godinton	85	110	25
Great Chart with Singleton North	22	23	1
Highfield	27	12	-15
Isle of Oxney	20	20	0
Kennington	10	10	0
Little Burton Farm	8	9	1
Norman	28	44	16
North Willesborough	29	16	-13
Park Farm North	16	15	-1
Park Farm South	14	22	8
Rolvenden and Tenterden West	10	17	7
Saxon Shore	119	44	-75
Singleton South	19	16	-3
South Willesborough	18	37	19
St Michaels	9	6	-3
Stanhope	16	22	6
Stour	80	86	6
Tenterden North	20	26	6
Tenterden South	16	18	2
Victoria	102	130	28
Washford	14	7	-7
Weald Central	44	38	-6
Weald East	30	36	6
Weald North	19	27	8
Weald South	33	24	-9
Wye	10	14	4

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Barton	132	231	99
Beltinge	34	32	-2
Blean Forest	32	59	27
Chartham & Stone Street	32	50	18
Chestfield	45	66	21
Gorrell	107	110	3
Greenhill	15	11	-4
Herne & Broomfield	36	38	2
Heron	103	158	55
Little Stour & Adisham	23	26	3
Nailbourne	25	25	0
Northgate	28	42	14
Reculver	21	28	7
Seasalter	26	37	11
St Stephen's	46	50	4
Sturry	35	48	13
Swalecliffe	16	12	-4
Tankerton	16	15	-1
West Bay	7	31	24
Westgate	123	136	13
Wincheap	67	74	7

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Bean and Darenth	32	42	10
Brent	58	70	12
Castle	170	161	-9
Cray Meadows		0	0
Greenhithe	64	80	16
Hartley and Hodsoll Street	29	40	11
Heath	49	76	27
Joyce Green	76	106	30
Joydens Wood	48	65	17
Littlebrook	26	60	34
Longfield New Barn and Southfleet	34	56	22
Newtown	85	124	39
Princes	48	52	4
Stone	132	187	55
Sutton-at-Hone and Hawley	115	32	-83
Swanscombe	83	90	7
Town	249	215	-34
West Hill	148	180	32
Wilmington	23	29	6

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Aylesham	32	23	-9
Buckland	21	16	-5
Capel-le-Ferne	11	7	-4
Castle	170	161	-9
Eastry	50	36	-14
Eythorne and Shepherdswell	24	27	3
Little Stour and Ashstone	33	25	-8
Lydden and Temple Ewell	4	8	4
Maxton Elms Vale and Priory	26	26	0
Middle Deal and Sholden	20	24	4
Mill Hill	14	22	8
North Deal	49	75	26
Ringwould	6	11	5
River	279	257	-22
Sandwich	44	66	22
St Margaret's-at-Cliffe	18	12	-6
St Radigunds	126	125	-1
Tower Hamlets	32	65	33
Town and Pier	4	4	0
Walmer	29	29	0
Whitfield	26	28	2

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Central	135	182	47
Chalk	8	11	3
Coldharbour	47	50	3
Higham	38	30	-8
Istead Rise	17	16	-1
Meopham North	43	81	38
Meopham South and Vigo	24	32	8
Northfleet North	95	94	-1
Northfleet South	63	113	50
Painters Ash	34	36	2
Pelham	121	130	9
Riverside	107	131	24
Riverview	25	22	-3
Shorne Cobham and Luddesdown	29	33	4
Singlewell	63	90	27
Westcourt	37	45	8
Whitehill	24	35	11
Woodlands	57	62	5

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Allington	48	54	6
Barming	4	10	6
Bearsted	42	31	-11
Boughton Monchelsea and Chart Sutton	21	26	5
Boxley	72	60	-12
Bridge	69	51	-18
Coxheath and Hunton	41	47	6
Detling and Thurnham	22	18	-4
Downswood and Otham	13	15	2
East	54	70	16
Fant	84	91	7
Harrietsham and Lenham	34	36	2
Headcorn	35	33	-2
Heath	49	76	27
High Street	381	686	305
Leeds	10	17	7
Loose	15	15	0
Marden and Yalding	37	58	21
North	47	67	20
North Downs	19	25	6
Park Wood	29	71	42
Shepway North	60	63	3
Shepway South	19	25	6
South	68	82	14
Staplehurst	25	37	12
Sutton Valence and Langley	16	15	-1

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Chatham Central	135	142	7
Cuxton and Halling	34	33	-1
Gillingham North	136	213	77
Gillingham South	128	164	36
Hempstead and Wigmore	38	28	-10
Lordswood and Capstone	104	178	74
Luton and Wayfield	119	148	29
Peninsula	67	80	13
Princes Park	62	69	7
Rainham Central	72	80	8
Rainham North	84	91	7
Rainham South	59	69	10
River	279	257	-22
Rochester East	61	70	9
Rochester South and Horsted	100	195	95
Rochester West	85	126	41
Strood North	97	177	80
Strood Rural	153	178	25
Strood South	77	122	45
Twydall	49	63	14
Walderslade	42	61	19
Watling	67	95	28

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Ash and New Ash Green	33	50	17
Brasted Chevening and Sundridge	71	63	-8
Cowden and Hever	24	21	-3
Crockenhill and Well Hill	11	19	8
Dunton Green and Riverhead	38	55	17
Edenbridge North and East	42	51	9
Edenbridge South and West	26	21	-5
Eynsford	10	19	9
Farningham Horton Kirby and South Darenth	32	35	3
Fawkham and West Kingsdown	97	95	-2
Halstead Knockholt and Badgers Mount	23	25	2
Hartley and Hodsoll Street	29	40	11
Hextable	19	20	1
Kemsing	60	77	17
Leigh and Chiddingstone Causeway	6	14	8
Otford and Shoreham	37	41	4
Penshurst Fordcombe and Chiddingstone	16	22	6
Seal and Weald	53	68	15
Sevenoaks Eastern	31	34	3
Sevenoaks Kippington	34	26	-8
Sevenoaks Northern	18	17	-1
Sevenoaks Town and St John's	134	139	5
Swanley Christchurch and Swanley Village	133	112	-21
Swanley St Mary's	29	29	0
Swanley White Oak	33	36	3
Westerham and Crockham Hill	96	124	28

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Broadmead	10	9	-1
Cheriton	90	105	15
East Folkestone	72	78	6
Folkestone Central	320	145	-175
Folkestone Harbour	26	42	16
Hythe	46	48	2
Hythe Rural	24	28	4
New Romney	52	37	-15
North Downs East	51	49	-2
North Downs West	41	37	-4
Romney Marsh	16	33	17
Sandgate & West Folkestone	266	168	-98
Walland & Denge Marsh	38	45	7

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Abbey	37	64	27
Bobbing Iwade and Lower Halstow	16	26	10
Borden and Grove Park	26	30	4
Boughton and Courtenay	43	52	9
Chalkwell	17	36	19
East Downs	11	18	7
Hartlip Newington and Upchurch	32	32	0
Homewood	55	57	2
Kemsley	37	32	-5
Milton Regis	17	36	19
Minster Cliffs	38	41	3
Murston	51	79	28
Priory	10	12	2
Queenborough and Halfway	23	30	7
Roman	20	32	12
Sheerness	60	94	34
Sheppey Central	25	37	12
Sheppey East	22	32	10
St Ann's	21	15	-6
Teynham and Lynsted	25	25	0
The Meads	48	55	7
Watling	67	95	28
West Downs	20	19	-1
Woodstock	12	17	5

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Beacon Road	15	20	5
Birchington North	14	21	7
Birchington South	23	24	1
Bradstowe	37	60	23
Central Harbour	59	76	17
Cliffsend and Pegwell	20	36	16
Cliftonville East	27	50	23
Cliftonville West	118	151	33
Dane Valley	24	24	0
Eastcliff	42	73	31
Garlinge	15	25	10
Kingsgate	13	16	3
Margate Central	154	138	-16
Nethercourt	8	15	7
Newington	19	19	0
Northwood	82	122	40
Salmestone	77	37	-40
Sir Moses Montefiore	14	19	5
St Peters	31	53	22
Thanet Villages	37	45	8
Viking	43	76	33
Westbrook	36	48	12
Westgate-on-Sea	43	50	7

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Aylesford North and Walderslade	46	162	116
Aylesford South	74	87	13
Borough Green and Long Mill	34	53	19
Burham and Wouldham	17	12	-5
Cage Green	19	17	-2
Castle	170	161	-9
Ditton	33	47	14
Downs and Mereworth	19	23	4
East Malling	25	39	14
Hadlow and East Peckham	51	68	17
Higham	38	30	-8
Hildenborough	42	62	20
Judd	31	53	22
Kings Hill	126	133	7
Larkfield North	20	19	-1
Larkfield South	24	32	8
Medway	63	55	-8
Snodland East and Ham Hill	18	35	17
Snodland West and Holborough Lakes	23	25	2
Trench	17	11	-6
Vauxhall	38	79	41
Wateringbury	6	18	12
West Malling and Leybourne	63	78	15
Wrotham Ightham and Stansted	43	54	11

Ward

Dissolutions

Incorporations

Net Change

Ward	Dissolutions	Incorporations	Net Change
Benenden and Cranbrook	46	59	13
Biddenden	13	18	5
Brenchley and Horsmonden	45	38	-7
Broadwater	16	36	20
Capel	12	13	1
Culverden	227	154	-73
Frittenden and Sissinghurst	13	11	-2
Goudhurst and Lamberhurst	43	54	11
Hawkhurst and Sandhurst	22	34	12
Paddock Wood East	42	37	-5
Paddock Wood West	20	16	-4
Pantiles and St Mark's	110	116	6
Park	54	94	40
Pembury	32	31	-1
Rusthall	32	55	23
Sherwood	34	42	8
Southborough and High Brooms	46	63	17
Southborough North	32	28	-4
Speldhurst and Bidborough	30	37	7
St James'	84	105	21
St John's	50	79	29

Total companies 2021 league table

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

Rank

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

Rank

County

Total companies

Rank	County	Total companies
1st 2020: 1st	London	1,397,474
4th 2020: 4th	Essex	141,948
6th 2020: 6th	Kent	126,550
9th 2020: 9th	Surrey	106,792
16th 2020: 16th	East Sussex	70,862
21st 2020: 20th	West Sussex	57,619

Rank

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 people

In Kent

73.1

National Average

79.1

The last 5 years

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

2017

14,860 formed

10,950 dissolved

2018

15,057 formed

11,568 dissolved

2019

15,963 formed

12,199 dissolved

2020

18,501 formed

10,634 dissolved

2021

16,625 formed

14,027 dissolved

Overall growth compared to previous year

3.54% vs 2017

4.26% vs 2018

8.05% vs 2019

3.1% vs 2020

Company Formations in 2021: Kent

New businesses in Kent mapped

Boroughs

Companies formed in 2021 league table

New incorporations in 2021 per 1000 people

In Kent

National Average

Type of companies formed in Kent breakdown

Total companies in Kent by the end of 2021

meaning there is a total of

Surrounding counties 2021 breakdown & comparison

Ward breakdown data for Ashford Canterbury Dartford Dover Gravesham Maidstone Medway Sevenoaks Shepway Swale Thanet Tonbridge and Malling Tunbridge Wells

Total companies 2021 league table

Total companies at the end of 2021 per 1000 people

In Kent

National Average

The last 5 years

Ward breakdown data for