The Startup Britain campaign have released some new stats about how many companies were started in the UK in 2013. They have analysed data from Companies House and have produced  a nice infographic.

The headline figure for Birmingham is that 16,281 business started up. Impressive. However, that’s actually a figure for the B postcode rather than for the Birmingham local authority area. Given that Startup Britain have also released the data they used I though it worth a quick analysis.

Headlines:

• In postcodes that are wholly or partly within the Birmingham local authority area there were 11,248 start-ups.
• B postcodes in Sandwell produced 1200 start-ups.
• Solihull had 947 start-ups.
• The top three performing postcodes in Birmingham are Birmingham City Centre (B2), Edgbaston/Lee Bank (B15), Winson Green/Hockley (B18).
• The fourth and fifth best performing postcodes are within the city centre (B3, B1).
• Castle Vale had the lowest number of start-ups (35, 0.3%) .
• Digbeth (B5) had 268 start-ups, 2.3% of the total (13th in Birmingham).

You can the acces Birmingham data and some tables here: http://bit.ly/startupbrum

Top 20 Birmingham postcodes for start-ups: