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Companies in Warrington

Warrington is the 32nd biggest place on the UK company register, with 20,080 live companies, or 0.4% of the UK total. 2,253 of those were formed in 2025. 1,460 (7.3%) have a proposal to strike off on file, close to the UK figure of 7.3%. Compared with the UK as a whole, Warrington stands out for gambling and betting activities: 27 companies, 5.7 times the national share.

What Warrington has more of than the rest of the UK

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

• Gambling and betting activities (27 companies)5.7×
• Other engineering activities (567 companies)5.4×
• Engineering design activities for industrial process and production (138 companies)4.3×
• Technical testing and analysis (50 companies)2.9×
• Quantity surveying activities (62 companies)2.6×

Biggest trades in Warrington

• Management consultancy activities other than financial management1,138
• Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate873
• Information technology consultancy activities816
• Buying and selling of own real estate724
• Other engineering activities567
• Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet337
• Freight transport by road326
• Development of building projects311

Live Warrington 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	432
2013	540
2014	663
2015	712
2016	803
2017	890
2018	1,079
2019	1,224
2020	904
2021	946
2022	1,063
2023	1,349
2024	1,560
2025	2,253
2026	2,072

Oldest active companies in Warrington

Nearest in size

• Croydon
• Stockport
• Wolverhampton
• Peterborough
• Doncaster
• Slough

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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