Business diversity by postcode

How broad each district's registered SIC mix is—and how much one shared postcode dominates it.

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Methodology

Live companies from the monthly Companies House bulk snapshot, restricted by full postcode to London and aggregated to postcode district. The effective-number measure is the exponential Shannon diversity of declared SIC sections: it rises when registrations are spread evenly across more sections. The shared-address diagnostic reports the share registered at the busiest full postcode; it suggests address concentration but does not identify a formation agent. These are registered offices, not workplaces, jobs or high-street premises. Cells are centroid-based comparison areas rather than Royal Mail boundaries.

Provenance

Cadence
monthly
Engine
choropleth

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