Where new companies are being formed
Two maps of the United Kingdom, coloured by how many companies were formed at their own address in the four weeks 12 October to 8 November 2026, for every 1,000 companies at their own address already on the register. Darker is more. Hover an area for its figures, click it for its page.
Updated 12 November 2026 · next update Monday · every council and constituency, CSV
By council
359 of 361 councils are drawn. The five with the most new companies for their size in these four weeks (all 361, ranked):
| Council | New companies, own address | On the register, own address | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tower Hamlets | 877 | 31,682 | 27.7 |
| Wolverhampton | 444 | 16,995 | 26.1 |
| Doncaster | 335 | 14,492 | 23.1 |
| Middlesbrough | 149 | 6,481 | 23.0 |
| Manchester | 1,085 | 48,425 | 22.4 |
The same figures with every council the same size
A hex cartogram: one hexagon a council, so London's 33 boroughs and the cities can be read. Layout by Open Innovations.
By Westminster constituency
650 of 651 constituencies are drawn. The five with the most new companies for their size (all 650, ranked):
| Constituency | New companies, own address | On the register, own address | Per 1,000 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Blackley and Middleton South | 372 | 7,561 | 49.2 |
| Doncaster North | 172 | 4,028 | 42.7 |
| Bethnal Green and Stepney | 620 | 16,623 | 37.3 |
| Wolverhampton West | 331 | 9,239 | 35.8 |
| East Ham | 492 | 18,188 | 27.1 |
The same figures with every constituency the same size
One hexagon a constituency, in Open Innovations' layout of the 2024 boundaries.
How the maps are made
The count is companies incorporated at their own address in the four complete weeks 12 October to 8 November 2026, from the Companies House public register. Companies registered at a formation agent or a virtual office are left out, as they're on every page here, because a formation agent's district isn't a busy local economy. The denominator is the number of companies at their own address on the register on 1 November 2026, from the monthly snapshot, where an address shared by 50 or more companies counts as nobody's own. The same denominator ranks the Closure Index, so a formations map and a closures map read the same way.
A rate rather than a count, because a count of new companies is a map of where people live. The colours are six equal groups of the areas drawn, so each shade holds about a sixth of them, and the legend prints the breaks. An area with under 1,000 companies at its own address, or a week disturbed by a register outage in its window, is left grey. Four weeks of a constituency is about 80 companies, so a single week would be noise.
Boundaries are the Office for National Statistics' generalised ones, councils as at May 2026 and constituencies as at July 2024, under the Open Government Licence. Shetland is moved into the dashed box so the map isn't a third taller for two islands. Northern Ireland is drawn as the ONS files give it. The hex cartograms use Open Innovations' layouts (MIT licence), with the same classes and breaks, so the two views of each map agree by construction.
Councils can also be ranked for every 10,000 residents, with the ONS mid-year population, on the league table, where any measure can be ranked over 4, 8 or 12 weeks.
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