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Choose a layer: companies registered in each neighbourhood (Companies House register, 2 October 2026, England and Wales), or the employment and income measures from the English Indices of Deprivation 2025 (England only). A company is counted where its registered office is, which is often an accountant or a home address, not where it trades. Sources: Companies House; MHCLG. Open Government Licence v3.0. This map outlines Sheffield and its wards. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.
Work and industry
The jobs people here do, and how that compares with England and Wales.
What residents do for work, by industry
This place England and Wales
Census 2021, industry of main job for residents in work. This is where people live, not where businesses are. Census 2021 (21 March 2021).
Economic activity of residents aged 16+
This place England and Wales
Share of all residents aged 16+. Census 2021, 21 March 2021. Census day fell during the COVID-19 pandemic, when many people were on furlough.
13.9% of people in employment are self-employed (England and Wales 16.6%). This is a share of people in work, not of all residents, so it is not comparable with the bars above.
Businesses
How do we know these figures?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Companies registered in the area (registered offices) Active companies whose registered office postcode is in the area. Registered office, not operating location. | Companies House Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product) | 2 Oct 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, medium quality |
| Registered companies per 1,000 residents Active companies with a registered office in the area per 1,000 residents (mid-2024). Registered offices only. | Companies House Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product) | 2 Oct 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, low quality |
| Companies incorporated in the last 12 months Companies incorporated in the 365 days to the latest complete day and still active (registered office basis). | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House data terms) | Year to 4 Nov 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, medium quality |
| Change in incorporations on the prior 12 months Percentage change between consecutive 365-day incorporation windows; the earlier window is understated by later dissolutions. | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House data terms) | Year to 4 Nov 2026 vs Year to 4 Nov 2025 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, low quality Prior window understated by later dissolutions, which inflates the change. |
| Companies with a corporate insolvency notice in the last 12 months Companies (registered office in the area) named in a Gazette winding-up, liquidation or administration notice Oct 2025 - Sep 2026. Distinct companies. Limitation: after an appointment the registered office is often the insolvency practitioner's address, so counts mostly reflect where practitioners are based. | The Gazette (The National Archives / TSO) Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (The Gazette terms) | Year to Sep 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, low quality |
| Companies dissolved in the last 12 months Companies dissolved in the 365 days to the latest complete day (registered office at dissolution). | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0) | Year to 4 Nov 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, medium quality Registered office at dissolution. |
| Change in dissolutions on the prior 12 months Percentage change between consecutive 365-day windows of company dissolutions. | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0) | Year to 4 Nov 2026 vs Year to 4 Nov 2025 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, medium quality |
| Net company formation in the last 12 months Companies incorporated minus companies dissolved in the 365 days to the latest complete day (registered office basis). Negative means more dissolutions than new companies. | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0) | Year to 4 Nov 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) | aggregated, medium quality Incorporated (including those since dissolved) minus dissolved. |
Method: Registered companies by area
Companies are placed by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not a trading or operating location: accountants, formation agents and virtual offices register thousands of companies at one address, and many small companies use a director's home. Counts are of companies with status Active (including those with a proposal to strike off), by the section of their first listed SIC 2007 code. Incorporation counts cover companies incorporated in the window that are still on the register at 2 Oct 2026, so dissolved companies are missing and older windows are understated relative to newer ones. Companies per 1,000 residents divides by the mid-2024 resident population (England and Wales only) and is not a measure of business density where registration hubs exist. SIC section Z groups dormant, non-trading and unclassified companies.
Method: Company incorporations
Counts of companies incorporated in a 12-month window, located by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not where the company trades: accountants, formation agents and home addresses are common. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day (the day before the newest live-feed event); the prior window is the 365 days before it. Companies later dissolved are missing, so the prior window is understated relative to the latest and the percentage change is inflated by that survivorship effect. Monthly counts cover complete calendar months only.
Method: Change events
Events are dated records from public registers: company insolvency notices in The Gazette (loaded from July 2025, so the window is under 24 months), charity registrations and removals (Charity Commission register events), and school opening and closing dates (GIAS), where academy conversions, relaunches and mergers are labelled separately from genuine new schools and closures. They are located at the registered office, registered address or school premises, which is not necessarily where an organisation operates or where affected people live. Each council shows only its most recent events per type (cap per type); wards show all loaded events. The Gazette feed carries insolvency notices only, not planning, licensing or other notices. A notice is an event on the register, not a judgement about the organisation. No individuals' names are stored.
Method: Company dissolutions and net formation
Dissolutions are companies Companies House records as dissolved, counted on the dissolution date and located by the postcode of the registered office held at dissolution. That address is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator, not where the company traded, so it says where a company was registered, not where a business closed. Every dissolution day since 1 January 2010 was fetched one day at a time and checked: the number of companies stored equals the number the register reports for that day. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day; the prior window is the 365 days before it; annual figures are complete calendar years. The route to dissolution (strike-off, end of liquidation, merger) is not recorded, so dissolutions are not split. Net formation = companies incorporated in the period (all that were ever registered in it, whether or not they have since been dissolved) minus companies dissolved in the period. The two groups are different companies and are located by different addresses, current for companies still on the register and last held for dissolved ones. Net formation compares registered offices, not jobs, trading or business closures.
Companies are counted where they are registered, which is not necessarily where they trade or employ people.
Registered companies by industry
This place England
Companies House register, by SIC section of the registered company. 2 Oct 2026.
How do we know this?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered companies by SIC section Active companies by section of first listed SIC 2007 code (distribution; registered office basis). | Companies House Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product) | 2 Oct 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) |
Method: Registered companies by area
Companies are placed by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not a trading or operating location: accountants, formation agents and virtual offices register thousands of companies at one address, and many small companies use a director's home. Counts are of companies with status Active (including those with a proposal to strike off), by the section of their first listed SIC 2007 code. Incorporation counts cover companies incorporated in the window that are still on the register at 2 Oct 2026, so dissolved companies are missing and older windows are understated relative to newer ones. Companies per 1,000 residents divides by the mid-2024 resident population (England and Wales only) and is not a measure of business density where registration hubs exist. SIC section Z groups dormant, non-trading and unclassified companies.
New companies registered each month
From 290 in Oct 2024 to 364 in Oct 2026, 26% higher.
View as a table
| Month | Companies |
|---|---|
| Oct 2024 | 290 |
| Dec 2024 | 200 |
| Feb 2025 | 316 |
| Apr 2025 | 407 |
| Jun 2025 | 488 |
| Aug 2025 | 388 |
| Oct 2025 | 445 |
| Dec 2025 | 241 |
| Feb 2026 | 387 |
| Apr 2026 | 395 |
| Jun 2026 | 378 |
| Aug 2026 | 327 |
| Oct 2026 | 364 |
Companies incorporated each month with a registered office here.
How do we know this?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Incorporations by month Companies incorporated per complete calendar month since Oct 2024 and still active (distribution: bucket = YYYY-MM). | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House data terms) | Oct 2024 to Oct 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) |
Method: Company incorporations
Counts of companies incorporated in a 12-month window, located by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not where the company trades: accountants, formation agents and home addresses are common. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day (the day before the newest live-feed event); the prior window is the 365 days before it. Companies later dissolved are missing, so the prior window is understated relative to the latest and the percentage change is inflated by that survivorship effect. Monthly counts cover complete calendar months only.
Registered companies by size of accounts filed
This place England
Accounts type is a rough guide to size: many registered companies are dormant or very small. 2 Oct 2026.
How do we know this?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered companies by accounts type Active companies by the type of their latest accounts (dormant, micro, small, medium or larger). | Companies House Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product) | 2 Oct 2026 | Sheffield (Council area) |
Method: Registered companies by area
Companies are placed by the postcode of their REGISTERED OFFICE, which is not a trading or operating location: accountants, formation agents and virtual offices register thousands of companies at one address, and many small companies use a director's home. Counts are of companies with status Active (including those with a proposal to strike off), by the section of their first listed SIC 2007 code. Incorporation counts cover companies incorporated in the window that are still on the register at 2 Oct 2026, so dissolved companies are missing and older windows are understated relative to newer ones. Companies per 1,000 residents divides by the mid-2024 resident population (England and Wales only) and is not a measure of business density where registration hubs exist. SIC section Z groups dormant, non-trading and unclassified companies.
Companies formed and dissolved, year by year
2010 to 2025In 2025, 5,395 companies were incorporated with a registered office here and 4,567 were dissolved: a net gain of 828. Dissolutions peaked in 2024 (4,644).
Incorporated and dissolved each year
Incorporated Dissolved
View as a table
| Year | Incorporated | Dissolved | Net |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 2,730 | 2,100 | 630 |
| 2011 | 3,067 | 2,182 | 885 |
| 2012 | 3,270 | 2,087 | 1,183 |
| 2013 | 3,405 | 2,346 | 1,059 |
| 2014 | 3,673 | 2,448 | 1,225 |
| 2015 | 4,030 | 2,455 | 1,575 |
| 2016 | 3,806 | 3,097 | 709 |
| 2017 | 3,720 | 2,945 | 775 |
| 2018 | 3,865 | 3,165 | 700 |
| 2019 | 3,986 | 3,426 | 560 |
| 2020 | 4,498 | 2,474 | 2,024 |
| 2021 | 4,629 | 3,766 | 863 |
| 2022 | 4,806 | 3,906 | 900 |
| 2023 | 5,201 | 4,322 | 879 |
| 2024 | 5,084 | 4,644 | 440 |
| 2025 | 5,395 | 4,567 | 828 |
Net company formation each year
Complete calendar years only. Companies incorporated include those since dissolved. The postcode of a dissolved company is the registered office it held at dissolution, which is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator rather than where the company traded; new companies carry the same caveat. These are registered offices, not business openings or closures, and not jobs.
How do we know this?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Companies incorporated and dissolved by year | Companies House Dissolved companies (advanced search API, one query per day since 1 January 2010, each day checked against the register total) and the company register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026 | 2010 to 2025 | Sheffield | Companies counted by registered-office postcode in the year they were incorporated or dissolved. Net = incorporated minus dissolved. The two groups are located by different addresses (current for surviving companies, last held for dissolved ones). Registered offices are not operating locations. Dissolution route (strike-off, end of liquidation) is not recorded. |
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Companies dissolved by year
This place England
Companies dissolved per complete calendar year since 2010 (distribution: bucket = YYYY). 2010..2025.
How do we know this?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Companies dissolved by year Companies dissolved per complete calendar year since 2010 (distribution: bucket = YYYY). | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0) | 2010..2025 | Sheffield (Council area) |
Method: Company dissolutions and net formation
Dissolutions are companies Companies House records as dissolved, counted on the dissolution date and located by the postcode of the registered office held at dissolution. That address is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator, not where the company traded, so it says where a company was registered, not where a business closed. Every dissolution day since 1 January 2010 was fetched one day at a time and checked: the number of companies stored equals the number the register reports for that day. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day; the prior window is the 365 days before it; annual figures are complete calendar years. The route to dissolution (strike-off, end of liquidation, merger) is not recorded, so dissolutions are not split. Net formation = companies incorporated in the period (all that were ever registered in it, whether or not they have since been dissolved) minus companies dissolved in the period. The two groups are different companies and are located by different addresses, current for companies still on the register and last held for dissolved ones. Net formation compares registered offices, not jobs, trading or business closures.
Companies incorporated by year (including those since dissolved)
This place England
Companies incorporated per complete calendar year since 2010, including companies since dissolved (distribution: bucket = YYYY). 2010..2025.
How do we know this?
| Figure | Source | Period | Geography | Method and limits |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Companies incorporated by year (including those since dissolved) Companies incorporated per complete calendar year since 2010, including companies since dissolved (distribution: bucket = YYYY). | Companies House Licence: to confirm (Companies House API terms; the register data is published under the Open Government Licence v3.0) | 2010..2025 | Sheffield (Council area) |
Method: Company dissolutions and net formation
Dissolutions are companies Companies House records as dissolved, counted on the dissolution date and located by the postcode of the registered office held at dissolution. That address is often an accountant, formation agent or liquidator, not where the company traded, so it says where a company was registered, not where a business closed. Every dissolution day since 1 January 2010 was fetched one day at a time and checked: the number of companies stored equals the number the register reports for that day. The latest window is the 365 days ending the latest complete day; the prior window is the 365 days before it; annual figures are complete calendar years. The route to dissolution (strike-off, end of liquidation, merger) is not recorded, so dissolutions are not split. Net formation = companies incorporated in the period (all that were ever registered in it, whether or not they have since been dissolved) minus companies dissolved in the period. The two groups are different companies and are located by different addresses, current for companies still on the register and last held for dissolved ones. Net formation compares registered offices, not jobs, trading or business closures.
Sources used on this page
13- Companies House: Free Company Data Product (basic company data), snapshotPeriod: snapshot 2 Oct 2026 · Published: 2 Oct 2026 · Coverage: UK companies on the register (registered office postcode) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (Free Company Data Product)
- Companies House: Dissolved companies: advanced search API (one query per dissolution day since 2010), topped up from the live streaming feed; incorporations from the register snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: dissolutions 5 Nov 2024 to 4 Nov 2026; annual series 2010 to 2025 · Published: 5 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)
- Companies House: Companies House streaming API (live), combined with the basic company data snapshot of 2 Oct 2026Period: incorporations to 4 Nov 2026 (stream timepoint 121313916, newest event published 5 Nov 2026T04:15:18) · Published: 5 Nov 2026 · Coverage: UK companies (registered office postcode)
- The Gazette (The National Archives / TSO): Corporate insolvency notices (category 24)Period: published 12 Jul 2025 to 9 Oct 2026 · Published: 9 Oct 2026 · Coverage: Companies with a UK registered office (the Gazette carries notices for England and Wales procedures and some Scottish and Northern Ireland ones, so Scottish places show counts) · Licence: Open Government Licence v3.0 (The Gazette terms)
- Office for National Statistics: Annual Population Survey ad hoc 3501: 4-digit SOC 2020 by sex, April 2025 to March 2026Period: April 2025 to March 2026 · Open Government Licence v3.0
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- Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 TS060 Industry (SIC 2007 sections and divisions)Period: 21 March 2021 · Open Government Licence v3.0
- Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 TS063 Occupation (SOC 2020 major groups)Period: 21 March 2021 · Open Government Licence v3.0
- Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 TS064 Occupation - minor groups (SOC 2020, usual residents aged 16+ in employment)Period: 21 March 2021 · Open Government Licence v3.0
- Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 TS066 Economic activity statusPeriod: 21 March 2021 · Open Government Licence v3.0
- Office for National Statistics: Census 2021 TS067 Highest level of qualificationPeriod: 21 March 2021 · Open Government Licence v3.0
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Registered offices are not operating locations. Ranks and deciles are never averaged. Census 2021 figures are labelled 2021.