Rural business statistics
Number and type of businesses in rural and urban areas.
Applies to England
Documents
Details
Changes in the numbers and types of businesses in rural and urban areas.
These documents are part of the larger compendium publication the Statistical Digest of Rural England, a collection of rural statistics on a wide range of social and economic government policy areas. The statistics allow comparisons between the different rural and urban area classifications.
Metadata
Indicators:
- business composition
- businesses by industry type and size band
- employment by industry type
- small and medium businesses
- business count
- business start ups
Data source: Office for National Statistics: VAT registrations and de-registrations; business demography; and Inter Departmental Business Register (IDBR)
Coverage: England
Rural classification used: Office for National Statistics Rural Urban Classification
Next release date: tba
Additional information:
- Office for National Statistics Inter Departmental Business Register
- Business Demography
- Drivers of rural business employment growth, decline and stability research report 2015.
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Updates to this page
Published 31 January 2013Last updated 22 July 2022 + show all updates
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Published today, HTML version of the Rural Business Statistics page.
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Published today, latest rural statistics on small and medium businesses, business counts and business start-ups.
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Published today, latest statistics on businesses in rural areas.
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Published today, latest statistics on business counts and start-ups in rural areas.
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Published today, latest statistics on businesses in rural areas.
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Published today, latest statistics on small and medium business enterprises in rural areas.
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Published today, latest rural statistics on businesses.
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Published today, latest analysis on rural businesses.
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Published today, new analysis on small and medium businesses in rural areas.
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Published today, latest available statistics on rural businesses.
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We’ve changed how we’ve organised rural statistics and updated the content following Lord Cameron’s review of rural proofing.
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Updated Rural Businesses document.
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Updated rural business figures now published.
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Latest statistics on rural businesses published today.
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2011/12 Enterprise composition and business breakdown by rural urban definition.
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First published.