New company incorporations in Birmingham
In the 12 months to August 2026, Companies House records in this analysis show 16,506 new companies with a registered office in Birmingham. Compared with the previous 12 months, the count decreased. A registered office in Birmingham is where a company is registered, not necessarily where it trades, and an incorporation is not a confirmed trading business.
The latest 12 months (solid) over the previous 12 (dashed). A month counting fewer than 10 companies is withheld and shown as a gap, never a zero.
| Month | 2024–25 | 2025–26 |
|---|---|---|
| Sep | 1,409 | 1,628 |
| Oct | 1,628 | 1,605 |
| Nov | 1,357 | 1,249 |
| Dec | 1,151 | 1,109 |
| Jan | 1,490 | 1,429 |
| Feb | 1,489 | 1,229 |
| Mar | 1,646 | 1,388 |
| Apr | 1,523 | 1,426 |
| May | 1,534 | 1,346 |
| Jun | 1,501 | 1,422 |
| Jul | 1,736 | 1,555 |
| Aug | 1,427 | 1,120 |
| Industry | Previous 12 months | Companies | Change | Share of area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retail and e-commerce | 3,338 | 3,151 | ▼ 5.6% | 19.1% |
| Property and real estate | 2,606 | 2,432 | ▼ 6.7% | 14.7% |
| Hospitality and food services | 2,051 | 1,845 | ▼ 10.0% | 11.2% |
| Construction and trades | 1,259 | 1,088 | ▼ 13.6% | 6.6% |
| Software and IT services | 883 | 1,052 | ▲ 19.1% | 6.4% |
| Health and social care | 1,033 | 918 | ▼ 11.1% | 5.6% |
| Transport, courier and logistics | 1,036 | 888 | ▼ 14.3% | 5.4% |
| Management consultancy | 604 | 690 | ▲ 14.2% | 4.2% |
| Manufacturing | 634 | 525 | ▼ 17.2% | 3.2% |
| Marketing, advertising and design | 337 | 367 | ▲ 8.9% | 2.2% |
A company is counted in a group if any of its filed SIC codes falls in that group, so a company can appear in more than one group and these figures are not additive — they are not a breakdown of a whole. A filed SIC code records the activity declared at incorporation, not proof of current trading.
Address concentration is published as a share and a distinct-address count only; no address is shown. A registered-office address is taken from the record at extraction and may differ from the address at the time of incorporation.
- Boundary
- Birmingham metropolitan district
- Geography code
- E08000025 (GSS), under geography version lr-geography-v1. Matching is by official code, never by text on the address.
- Postcode mapping
- The registered-office postcode is mapped to a local authority through the ONS Postcode Directory. Postcodes that cannot be mapped are counted separately, never reassigned to a neighbouring authority.
- Not included
- The city of Birmingham only. Solihull, Sandwell, Dudley, Walsall and Wolverhampton are separate authorities in the West Midlands and are not counted here.
- Registered office
- The address recorded at Companies House when the record was captured. It is not a verified trading location, an operational base or a founder's home.
- Incorporation
- A registration event. It is not evidence the company is trading, and it is not a business birth in the ONS sense.
- Historical addresses
- For backfilled months, the address is the one shown at extraction, which may differ from the address filed at incorporation.
- SIC codes
- Self-classified by the company at filing. A filed code is how the company described itself, not proof of current activity.
Launch Register analysis of Companies House public data: private limited companies incorporated with a registered office in Birmingham in the 12 months to August 2026, geography mapped using the ONS Postcode Directory. Pages update in place, so quoting the release month keeps a figure reproducible.
https://launchregister.co.uk/company-statistics/locations/birmingham/ · Data through August 2026 · Last updated 2026-09-18 · Coverage 2024-09/2026-08 · Methodology methodology-v1 · Geography lr-geography-v1 · Industry mapping sic2007-lr-v1
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