Lancashire's economy, in public data
Who trades in Lancashire, how firms fare, and where public money lands, built from the public registers that the county's economy already leaves behind. Every figure carries its source and its date, and every area is shown twice: as it is governed today, and as it will be under the four new unitary councils from April 2028.
This is a first, open look at the shape of the Lancashire business base, assembled the same way as the property map and the contracts record: from registers that are public by law. It counts active companies, watches for financial distress in the register, tracks where new firms are born and whether they survive, follows the official high-growth companies, and asks how much of each council's spending stays with locally rooted suppliers. The tools below go deeper on each.
Compare the areas
Every area, side by side. Switch between today's councils and the four unitaries that take over in 2028. Click any column heading to sort; click an area to open its full profile.
Clean distress rate excludes companies registered at flagged address clusters (large numbers of companies at a single address, most dissolved or striking off), so it does not overstate stress in one postcode. The raw rate is shown on each area profile. How this is worked out.
| Area | Companies / 1k | Clean distress | Birth rate % | 3yr survival | High growth | Median pay |
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