Money and business · data story

Where businesses form and disappear

Formation, dissolution and the live register answer three different questions about London business.

The evidence

What the current releases show

Updated 16 Sept 2026

Formations · 2026

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128,273 companies incorporated

2026

Historical London registered-office formations by year.

Formations and dissolutions · 2026

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128,273 companies

incorporated

dissolved: 102,721 companies

The two administrative flows in the latest available year.

Live-company age profile · 1–4 years

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530,322 live companies

1–4 years

5–9 years: 355,296 live companies

Incorporation cohorts among companies still present in the latest bulk snapshot.

Registered-office geography · 2026-09-01

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14.5 effective sections

DA1

London median: 12.6 effective sections

SIC diversity and shared-address concentration across postcode districts.

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Keep following the evidence

Money and business · 4 evidence sets

Employment, claimant rates, resident earnings and rent burden move on different clocks.

Budgets, outturn, reserves and council tax show different moments in local public finance.

The same rent is a very different burden depending on where London pay lands.