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:
Postcode | start-ups | % | Area |
B2 | 998 | 8.9% | Birmingham City Centre, New Street |
B15 | 994 | 8.8% | Edgbaston, Lee Bank |
B18 | 804 | 7.1% | Winson Green, Hockley |
B3 | 781 | 6.9% | Birmingham City Centre, Newhall Street |
B1 | 383 | 3.4% | Birmingham City Centre, Broad Street (east) |
B11 | 372 | 3.3% | Sparkhill, Sparkbrook, Tyseley |
B28 | 331 | 2.9% | Hall Green |
B13 | 311 | 2.8% | Moseley, Billesley |
B19 | 306 | 2.7% | Lozells, Newtown, Birchfield |
B16 | 305 | 2.7% | Edgbaston, Ladywood |
B12 | 290 | 2.6% | Balsall Heath, Sparkbrook, Highgate |
B9 | 274 | 2.4% | Bordesley Green, Bordesley |
B5 | 268 | 2.4% | Digbeth, Highgate, Lee Bank |
B23 | 262 | 2.3% | Erdington, Short Heath |
B24 | 251 | 2.2% | Erdington, Tyburn |
B21 | 244 | 2.2% | Handsworth |
B8 | 243 | 2.2% | Washwood Heath, Ward End, Saltley |
B20 | 226 | 2.0% | Handsworth Wood, Handsworth, Birchfield, Perry Barr |
B10 | 221 | 2.0% | Small Heath |
B14 | 198 | 1.8% | Kings Heath, Yardley Wood, Druids Heath, Highter’s Heath, Warstock |