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Companies in Walsall

Walsall is the 58th biggest place on the UK company register, with 13,680 live companies, or 0.2% of the UK total. 2,004 of those were formed in 2025. 1,250 (9.1%) have a proposal to strike off on file, above the UK figure of 7.3%. Compared with the UK as a whole, Walsall stands out for manufacture of luggage, handbags and the like, saddlery and harness: 23 companies, 8.9 times the national share.

What Walsall has more of than the rest of the UK

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

  • Manufacture of luggage, handbags and the like, saddlery and harness (23 companies)8.9×
  • Dispensing chemist in specialised stores (114 companies)6.1×
  • Regulation of health care, education, cultural and other social services, not incl. social security (50 companies)4.2×
  • Residential care activities for learning difficulties, mental health and substance abuse (61 companies)3.1×
  • Manufacture of metal structures and parts of structures (39 companies)3.1×

Biggest trades in Walsall

Live Walsall companies, by year formed

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

20122026
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YearLive companies
2012242
2013272
2014345
2015366
2016404
2017488
2018595
2019680
2020660
2021681
2022848
2023960
20241,314
20252,004
20261,743

Oldest active companies in Walsall

  1. Walsall Business SupportFormed 1892
  2. Eyland & SonsFormed 1894
  3. Duneth SecuritiesFormed 1905
  4. Henry Squire & SonsFormed 1906
  5. Dillons NewsagentsFormed 1915

Funny company names registered in Walsall

Nearest in size

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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