"Figure 9: There were 19,104 company incorporations in the UK in the week to Friday 5 March 2021, a 12% increase from the previous week and the highest weekly number since the beginning of 2019","" "Total weekly company incorporations, UK, from week ending Friday 4 January 2019 to week ending Friday 5 March 2021","" "","" "Notes","1. Week 1 refers to the period week ending 4 January 2019, 3 January 2020 and 1 January 2021. Week 10 refers to the period week ending 8 March 2019, 6 March 2020 and 5 March 2021. 2. The dips in December 2019 and December 2020 are explained by two bank holidays in the week ending 27 December 2019 and 25 December 2020. 3. Weekly data are for week commencing Saturday to Friday, as incorporation requests received on Saturdays and Sundays are typically processed on subsequent weekdays. For more information, see the accompanying [Companies House methodology page](https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/economicoutputandproductivity/output/methodologies/weeklyindicatorsofcompanycreationsandclosuresfromcompanieshousemethodologyaugust2020). " "Unit","Company incorporations" "","" "","2019","2020","2021" "Week 1","5857","7366","8248" "Week 2","12757","12550","16097" "Week 3","14334","14301","15326" "Week 4","13378","13934","15905" "Week 5","14434","12660","16108" "Week 6","14355","14902","15974" "Week 7","15115","15116","16882" "Week 8","13366","13052","15846" "Week 9","13965","14034","17096" "Week 10","15747","13268","19104" "Week 11","16039","15207","" "Week 12","14850","12194","" "Week 13","15501","8770","" "Week 14","15994","9758","" "Week 15","15134","7328","" "Week 16","11558","9372","" "Week 17","11807","9707","" "Week 18","14097","11306","" "Week 19","11558","9989","" "Week 20","13847","14525","" "Week 21","14807","14108","" "Week 22","10656","14464","" "Week 23","12975","17193","" "Week 24","13618","18575","" "Week 25","12642","17574","" "Week 26","12203","16955","" "Week 27","12970","18066","" "Week 28","13806","18661","" "Week 29","13142","16849","" "Week 30","12231","17134","" "Week 31","12655","17360","" "Week 32","12828","16658","" "Week 33","12375","15012","" "Week 34","12179","16966","" "Week 35","10701","15331","" "Week 36","12714","15343","" "Week 37","13200","15417","" "Week 38","12302","17347","" "Week 39","14151","17359","" "Week 40","13791","17940","" "Week 41","13259","18420","" "Week 42","14107","16821","" "Week 43","12487","15268","" "Week 44","12089","15890","" "Week 45","12733","16303","" "Week 46","11992","15952","" "Week 47","12584","18310","" "Week 48","12520","14160","" "Week 49","12119","14888","" "Week 50","10988","15766","" "Week 51","11503","13257","" "Week 52","4555","9326",""