UK companies, town by town.
Pick a UK city. You get its biggest Companies House sectors, its postcode prefixes, and a playbook for reaching firms there. Every page links straight into Leadistry with the filters already set.
Dot size · new companies registered to that city in the last 12 months. Companies House snapshot, August 2026.
Ten metros, ten different registers.
The mix is genuinely different in each one: professional services in central London, IT consultancy and health in Leeds. Pick the one you sell into.
UK companies in London
ECWCENNWSESWWBRCRDAENHAIGKTRMSMTWUBLondon holds more UK companies than anywhere else.UK companies in Manchester
MOLBLBBWNSKManchester is the largest UK business hub outside London.UK companies in Birmingham
BWSWVDYBirmingham is the UK's second-largest city by population.UK companies in Leeds
LSWFBDHDHXLeeds runs the biggest financial-services centre outside London.UK companies in Bristol
BSBAThe South West's largest business hub is Bristol.UK companies in Glasgow
GThe largest business hub in Scotland is Glasgow.UK companies in Edinburgh
EHEdinburgh is the UK's second-largest financial-services centre.UK companies in Liverpool
LShipping built Liverpool, and it is still the big maritime and logistics hub of the North West.UK companies in Newcastle upon Tyne
NEDHSRNo North East business hub is bigger than Newcastle.UK companies in Sheffield
SOutside the West Midlands, no UK city packs in more manufacturing than Sheffield.74 cities, each with its own numbers.
The figure beside each city is the new companies set up there in the twelve months to August 2026. Every page shows that city's active companies, what its new companies do, and its busiest postcode districts.
London
- New companies in London198,723
North West
West Midlands
Yorkshire and the Humber
Scotland
East Midlands
South East
South West
East of England
Wales
Northern Ireland
North East
Don't see your town? Leadistry covers every UK postcode. Tell an agent the town, and it reads the companies registered there.
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland.
One register covers the whole United Kingdom. Four things worth knowing before you cut a list out of it.
01How many companies are registered in the UK?+
5,190,464 companies were active on the Companies House register at the August 2026 snapshot. That is the whole population these pages draw from: every UK limited company, wherever it is based, with its registered office, incorporation date, officers, filing history and up to four SIC codes describing what it does.
02Is there a list of UK companies you can search?+
Yes, and it is public. Companies House publishes the public record, and anyone can look up a company for free. What the official search will not do is let you slice it: give me firms in this trade, in these postcodes, incorporated in the last ninety days, that have a working website and an email I can actually reach. That is the job these pages set up, and it is what a usable list of UK companies means in practice.
03Does it cover England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?+
Companies House keeps one register for the whole United Kingdom, so a company based in England sits in the same dataset as one based in Glasgow or Belfast. The practical split is geographic rather than legal: an agent reads the postcode of the registered office. You give it one area, a town, a city, a region or the whole UK, and the city pages above show the busiest of those.
04Is a registered office where the company actually trades?+
One caveat worth knowing before you build a territory list. A registered office is where a company’s paperwork lives, not necessarily where it trades. Plenty of firms register at their accountant’s address, and a great many register in London while working nowhere near it. Treat the address as where to start looking, not as a service area.
Start where your patch is.
Point the public record at your city.
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