{
 "schema": "counts-feed/1",
 "feed": "business-demography",
 "place": "portsmouth",
 "placeName": "Portsmouth",
 "code": "E06000044",
 "retrieved": "2026-11-10",
 "producedBy": "scripts/counts/feeds/run-feeds.py",
 "title": "New businesses (business births)",
 "question": "How many new businesses start in Portsmouth each year, and how many are active?",
 "unit": "enterprises; rate = births as % of active enterprises (our calculation)",
 "cadence": "annual",
 "issues": [
  "poverty-and-work"
 ],
 "series": {
  "place": [
   {
    "period": "2019",
    "date": "2019",
    "count": 1205,
    "active": 7200,
    "rate": 16.7
   },
   {
    "period": "2020",
    "date": "2020",
    "count": 1030,
    "active": 7240,
    "rate": 14.2
   },
   {
    "period": "2021",
    "date": "2021",
    "count": 920,
    "active": 7090,
    "rate": 13
   },
   {
    "period": "2022",
    "date": "2022",
    "count": 825,
    "active": 6945,
    "rate": 11.9
   },
   {
    "period": "2023",
    "date": "2023",
    "count": 830,
    "active": 6705,
    "rate": 12.4
   },
   {
    "period": "2024",
    "date": "2024",
    "count": 870,
    "active": 6735,
    "rate": 12.9
   }
  ],
  "england": [
   {
    "period": "2019",
    "date": "2019",
    "count": 325355,
    "active": 2547030,
    "rate": 12.8
   },
   {
    "period": "2020",
    "date": "2020",
    "count": 299115,
    "active": 2556250,
    "rate": 11.7
   },
   {
    "period": "2021",
    "date": "2021",
    "count": 324485,
    "active": 2592840,
    "rate": 12.5
   },
   {
    "period": "2022",
    "date": "2022",
    "count": 300580,
    "active": 2581080,
    "rate": 11.6
   },
   {
    "period": "2023",
    "date": "2023",
    "count": 281860,
    "active": 2531480,
    "rate": 11.1
   },
   {
    "period": "2024",
    "date": "2024",
    "count": 282680,
    "active": 2521340,
    "rate": 11.2
   }
  ]
 },
 "caveats": [
  "Counts are rounded to the nearest 5 by ONS.",
  "The birth rate is births divided by active enterprises, calculated here; ONS does not publish it for councils.",
  "A business is counted where it is registered, which may differ from where it trades."
 ],
 "source": {
  "publisher": "Office for National Statistics",
  "title": "Business demography, UK: reference tables",
  "url": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable",
  "retrieved": "2026-11-10",
  "api": "https://www.ons.gov.uk/file?uri=/businessindustryandtrade/business/activitysizeandlocation/datasets/businessdemographyreferencetable/current/businessdemographyexceltables2024.xlsx",
  "sha256": "d0687054646be98c0b7ba0f476888111523cc7ead380e07ecf609f0c5e2cde37"
 }
}