How to get a list of newly registered UK companies
A newly incorporated company is the freshest buying signal in UK B2B: it has no accountant, no insurer, no bank relationship and no software stack yet. The list is also free and public — Companies House publishes every registration. So the interesting question isn't where to get it. It's the one nobody selling you a “fresh leads” feed wants asked: how much of that list is a business you can actually sell to? Below is every route to the data, then a measurement of a complete month — all 63,964 UK companies incorporated in June 2026 — rather than a claim about one.
The four routes, and what each one costs you
| Route | What you get | Where it stops |
|---|---|---|
| Companies House Advanced Search (free, browser) | Live companies filtered by incorporation date, SIC code and location, on screen in seconds | Built for looking, not for exporting — fine for a few hundred rows, wrong tool for a month |
| Companies House REST API (free, key required) | The same records programmatically, always current, no snapshot lag | Rate-limited and paginated: a full month is thousands of calls plus the code to page, retry and de-duplicate |
| Free Company Data Product (free, bulk download) | Every live UK company with SIC codes, category, incorporation date and registered address — the authoritative source | Multi-gigabyte monthly snapshot of the whole register: isolating one month means processing all of it, on your machine |
| A cleaned extract (what we sell, from £49) | One month or one week, de-duplicated, twelve columns, per-row freshness date, CSV that opens anywhere | Snapshot-based, so it lags the live API by days — if you need same-hour registrations, use the API |
All four routes carry the same official Companies House open data underneath. Nobody has a secret feed of new registrations, and anyone implying otherwise is selling you the free register with a markup and a story.
What a full month of UK company formation actually looks like
The figures below are computed from the complete June 2026 cohort — all 63,964 companies incorporated between the 1st and 30th, extracted from the official bulk register snapshot of 1 July 2026, with a per-row freshness date of 4 July 2026. Not a sample: the month.
| Company type registered | Count | Share of month |
|---|---|---|
| Private Limited Company | 61,430 | 96.0% |
| Community Interest Company | 887 | 1.4% |
| Private company limited by guarantee | 714 | 1.1% |
| Charitable Incorporated Organisation | 297 | 0.5% |
| Limited Liability Partnership | 273 | 0.4% |
| Overseas Entity | 78 | 0.1% |
By declared activity, formation is far more concentrated than people expect. These are the ten SIC codes most often declared by a new company that month — a company can declare up to four, so the counts are companies naming that code, not exclusive buckets.
| SIC | Declared activity | Companies | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| 47910 | Retail sale via mail order houses or via Internet | 5,986 | 9.4% |
| 68209 | Other letting and operating of own or leased real estate | 4,781 | 7.5% |
| 70229 | Management consultancy activities other than financial management | 4,047 | 6.3% |
| 62012 | Business and domestic software development | 3,779 | 5.9% |
| 68100 | Buying and selling of own real estate | 3,263 | 5.1% |
| 62020 | Information technology consultancy activities | 2,534 | 4.0% |
| 64209 | Activities of other holding companies n.e.c. | 2,086 | 3.3% |
| 56103 | Take-away food shops and mobile food stands | 1,837 | 2.9% |
| 62090 | Other information technology service activities | 1,744 | 2.7% |
| 82990 | Other business support service activities n.e.c. | 1,694 | 2.6% |
44,279 of the month's companies (69.2%) declared exactly one SIC code, and 839 declared none at all — so a SIC filter silently drops those 839 companies, and several of them will be exactly the trading business you wanted. London is the registered town for 17,160 of them (26.8%), which is the first hint that registered address is not the same thing as where a business operates.
The address concentration that breaks local targeting
Here is the finding worth the page. Those 63,964 companies registered across 41,511 distinct postcodes — but the distribution is nothing like even. The single busiest postcode absorbed 2,743 new companies in one month (4.3% of every company formed in the UK that month), and the top ten postcodes between them took 9,429 (14.7%).
| The new company registered at… | Companies | Share of month |
|---|---|---|
| A postcode no other new company used that month | 36,457 | 57.0% |
| Shared with 1–8 other new companies | 13,482 | 21.1% |
| Shared with 9–48 other new companies | 2,590 | 4.0% |
| A postcode that took 50–499 new companies that month | 2,641 | 4.1% |
| A postcode that took 500+ new companies that month | 8,371 | 13.1% |
Measured at postcode level, not full address — that is what we counted and we won't overstate it. In a dense city centre one postcode can cover several buildings, so a shared postcode is not by itself proof of a shared front door. At 500+ registrations in a single month it is, in practice, a mail-handling operation. 423 companies had no registered postcode in the file and are excluded from this table.
None of this is wrongdoing, and we're naming no addresses and no providers: using a formation agent or a virtual office is ordinary, lawful and often the sensible choice for a founder who'd rather keep their home address off the public register. But it does mean roughly one in eight new UK companies carries a registered address that tells you nothing about where the business is. If you are buying new-incorporation data to find local businesses, or sizing a territory from registered addresses, that share is pure noise — and it is concentrated enough that a handful of postcode exclusions removes most of it.
Three filters worth applying before you contact anyone
First, drop the bulk-registration postcodes if location matters to your pitch — the ten busiest alone account for 14.7% of the month, so ten exclusions strip out a seventh of your list for almost no effort. Second, treat holding and property codes as a separate motion: 64209, 68100 and 68209 together are a large slice of every month, and a property SPV or a holding vehicle is a different sale from a trading business — worth reaching, but not with the same message. Third, wait a beat before judging the ones with no SIC code: 839 companies declared nothing at all, which is a filing gap rather than a signal, and blanket-excluding them loses real businesses. What we deliberately don't claim: every company in this file shows status Active, and that is a snapshot artefact, not a survival rate — strike-off takes months to appear on the register, so nothing here tells you which of these companies is still trading a year from now.
UK New Incorporations — June 2026. All 63,964 companies incorporated that month, cleaned and de-duplicated from the official register: company number, name, status, category, incorporation date, SIC codes, registered town, county, postcode, country of origin, source and a per-row freshness date. £49 one-off, CSV, instant download.
Need them fresher than monthly? The weekly file is every UK company incorporated in the seven days up to the newest register snapshot — typically 10,000–15,000 rows, same twelve columns, rebuilt each time the register publishes. £49 one-off or £29/month, with a free sample so you can check the format first.
If you need a filtered cut instead of the whole month
Most people don't want all 63,964 rows — they want new incorporations in three SIC codes, in one region, with the bulk-registration addresses stripped out, and ideally with a website resolved and verified against the register entry. That is a custom run: fixed price from £149, quoted before you pay, delivered as clean CSV within 48 hours. Company-level data only — no named individuals, email addresses or direct dials, as a deliberate GDPR stance rather than a roadmap gap. If the cut can't be built honestly from public sources, we say so at scoping rather than after the money moves.
Frequently asked questions
Where can I get a list of newly registered UK companies?
From Companies House itself, free, three ways: Advanced Search filters live companies by incorporation date in the browser, the REST API exposes the same records programmatically, and the Free Company Data Product publishes a monthly bulk snapshot of every company on the register. None of them is hard to reach — the work is in what comes after. The bulk file is a multi-gigabyte download covering every live company on the register, so isolating one month means processing the lot; Advanced Search caps what you can export; and the API is rate-limited and paginated, so a full month is thousands of calls. If you would rather not build that, a cleaned monthly or weekly extract is what we sell — but the register is free and you should know that before you pay anyone, us included.
How many new companies are registered in the UK each month?
In June 2026 the answer was exactly 63,964 — that is the full cohort from the 1 July 2026 bulk register snapshot, not an estimate. 61,430 of them were ordinary private limited companies (96.0%); the rest were LLPs, community interest companies, charitable incorporated organisations, guarantee companies and overseas entities. Roughly two thousand new companies a day, weekends included, is the working rule of thumb. Volume varies month to month — the start of a tax year and the new year both bump it — so treat any single month as a month, not a run rate.
Are newly registered companies good sales leads?
They are the freshest signal on the register and genuinely valuable for accountants, business banking, insurance, formation services and anyone selling setup tooling — you are reaching a business at the exact moment it is choosing suppliers. The catch is that a raw incorporation list is not a lead list. A large minority of new registrations are holding companies, dormant vehicles, property SPVs and formation-agent registrations that will never trade in the way your pitch assumes, and the register cannot tell you which is which on day one. The filters that actually help are on this page: company category, SIC code, and how many other companies registered at the same address that month.
Why do so many new companies share a registered address?
Because using a formation agent or a virtual-office provider is normal, lawful and often sensible — you get a professional registered office and your home address stays off the public record. It is not a red flag in itself and we make no allegation about any company or address. It is, however, a targeting problem: in June 2026, 13.1% of new companies registered at a postcode that took 500 or more registrations that same month. If you are filtering by town or postcode to find local businesses, that share is noise — the address tells you where the agent is, not where the business is. Filter it out before you count your market.
How fresh is the data, and what does it cost?
Our monthly file is built from the official bulk register snapshot for that month and carries a per-row freshness date, so you always know what you are holding. The weekly file is rebuilt from each new snapshot — every company incorporated in the seven days up to it, typically 10,000–15,000 rows. June 2026 as a one-off is £49 for all 63,964 rows; the weekly file is £49 one-off or £29/month. Company-level data only: no scraped personal emails or direct dials, by design, so it is safe for B2B prospecting under UK GDPR.
Related: how to filter the register by SIC code or industry, how to add websites to Companies House data, how to find companies by the technology they run, or the full UK company data providers guide.