# Active enterprises in North West

Active enterprises in North West was 283,620 in 2024. Source: Office for National Statistics (United Kingdom).

- Indicator id: `active_enterprises`
- Place id: `gb-region-e12000002`
- Unit: count
- Definition: Enterprises that had turnover or employment at any time during the year, with or without employees.
- Note: Counts enterprises, which can run several local units, under the harmonised Eurostat and OECD business demography rules. Not the same as active_companies (the INE business register count for Spain) or employer_firms (US firms with employees). For the UK it counts every enterprise active at some point in the year, so it differs from registered_enterprises_total (UK Business Counts), a snapshot of the register in March.
- Source: Office for National Statistics (United Kingdom), Business demography, UK, Tables 3.1a to 3.1d: count of active enterprises by district, county and unitary authority within region and country (https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable)
- Publisher page: https://invokely.ai/en/publishers/ons-uk
- Retrieved: 2026-10-12
- License: Open Government Licence v3.0 (commercial reuse, attribution required)
- Citation: Office for National Statistics. Business demography, UK, Tables 3.1a to 3.1d: count of active enterprises by district, county and unitary authority within region and country. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable. Retrieved 2026-10-12.
- Web page: https://invokely.ai/en/active-enterprises/north-west-uk
- API: https://invokely.ai/api/v1/series?indicator=active_enterprises&place=gb-region-e12000002

| Period | count |
|---|---:|
| 2024 | 283,620 |
| 2023 | 285,200 |
| 2022 | 290,845 |
| 2021 | 291,110 |
| 2020 | 283,770 |
| 2019 | 286,130 |