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Companies in Oldham

Oldham is the 48th biggest place on the UK company register, with 14,780 live companies, or 0.3% of the UK total. 2,261 of those were formed in 2025. 1,406 (9.5%) have a proposal to strike off on file, above the UK figure of 7.3%. Compared with the UK as a whole, Oldham stands out for manufacture of kitchen furniture: 30 companies, 4.4 times the national share.

What Oldham has more of than the rest of the UK

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

• Manufacture of kitchen furniture (30 companies)4.4×
• Retail trade of motor vehicle parts and accessories (96 companies)4.2×
• Renting and leasing of cars and light motor vehicles (74 companies)4.0×
• Retail sale of fruit and vegetables in specialised stores (28 companies)3.7×
• Retail sale of tobacco products in specialised stores (15 companies)3.3×

Biggest trades in Oldham

• Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate765
• Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet709
• Buying and selling of own real estate705
• Management consultancy activities other than financial management409
• Take-away food shops and mobile food stands341
• Other human health activities307
• Development of building projects252
• Sale of used cars and light motor vehicles251

Live Oldham 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	228
2013	297
2014	341
2015	351
2016	418
2017	513
2018	607
2019	715
2020	693
2021	742
2022	853
2023	1,130
2024	1,468
2025	2,261
2026	2,259

Oldest active companies in Oldham

Nearest in size

• Poole
• Cheltenham
• Huddersfield
• Stoke-on-Trent
• Aberdeen
• Swindon

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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