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Companies in Altrincham

Altrincham is the 56th biggest place on the UK company register, with 14,033 live companies, or 0.2% of the UK total. 1,436 of those were formed in 2025. 644 (4.6%) have a proposal to strike off on file, below the UK figure of 7.3%. Compared with the UK as a whole, Altrincham stands out for credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors: 17 companies, 5.9 times the national share.

What Altrincham has more of than the rest of the UK

Each trade's share of Altrincham companies, compared with its share across the UK.

• Credit granting by non-deposit taking finance houses and other specialist consumer credit grantors (17 companies)5.9×
• Research and experimental development on biotechnology (59 companies)5.6×
• Dental practice activities (175 companies)3.7×
• Production of electricity (91 companies)3.4×

Biggest trades in Altrincham

• Buying and selling of own real estate792
• Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate768
• Management consultancy activities other than financial management665
• Information technology consultancy activities534
• Business and domestic software development287
• Development of building projects276
• Other human health activities239
• Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet218

Live Altrincham companies, by year formed

Only companies still live are counted, so older years look smaller. 2026 stops on 1 November 2026.

See every year as a table

Year	Live companies
2012	295
2013	315
2014	400
2015	411
2016	468
2017	537
2018	642
2019	705
2020	702
2021	788
2022	945
2023	1,111
2024	1,134
2025	1,436
2026	1,315

Oldest active companies in Altrincham

Nearest in size

• Hull
• Solihull
• Swansea
• Exeter
• Walsall
• Maidstone

Town means the post town of the registered address, which isn't always where a company trades. Many companies use an accountant's or formation agent's address. Figures come from Companies House on 1 November 2026.

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