New companies in the West Midlands
4,836 companies were formed at their own address in the West Midlands (30 councils) in the four weeks to 1 November 2026, and about 1,971 of them are expected to become trading businesses.
Updated 3 November 2026 · next update Monday · these figures, CSV · every council and region
Companies formed at their own address each week across the 30 councils (solid line); the dashed line, where shown, includes formation-agent addresses.
Council by council
The last 4 complete weeks. Each council's page has the weekly series, the sector mix, what became of the companies formed there three years ago, and a card to embed on a website that updates itself every Monday.
Click a heading to sort. "Compare" opens the council in the explorer, week by week against this area.
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Using these figures
Free to use in a newsletter, on a website, in a report or at an event, with attribution to Salenovo and Companies House. A ready-made line:
A different cut (a sector, a month-by-month series, these councils beside their neighbours) is usually a same-day reply: hello@salenovo.com.
How this is counted
We take every company incorporated in the UK from the Companies House public register the day after it appears and place it in a council by its registered-office postcode (ONS Postcode Directory). The figures here are the council pages' own, added together. "Own address" leaves out registrations at addresses that take 100 or more a year (formation agents and virtual offices), because those say where the agent is, not where the business is. "Expected to trade" is the historical trading rate of similar companies, summed: an estimate for the area, not a judgement on any company. The official ONS business demography arrives about fifteen months after the fact; this is the same register, counted weekly. Method and accuracy.