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Unlicensed carrier: 12,900 live UK companies with SIC code 53202
12,900 live UK companies list SIC code 53202, unlicensed carrier, in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. 2,987 of them were incorporated in the last 12 months and 1,559 have an accounts due date that had passed, and 2,069 have a proposal to strike them off the register.
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- 12,900Live companies
- 2,987Incorporated in the last 12 months
- 1,559Accounts overdue
- 2,069Strike off proposed
- 53202SIC code
- 1 November 2026Snapshot
Incorporations per year
Companies incorporated in each year that are still live in the 1 November 2026 snapshot. Companies that closed earlier are not counted, so older years read low.
| Year incorporated | Live companies |
|---|---|
| 2022 | 670 |
| 2023 | 871 |
| 2024 | 1,056 |
| 2025 | 2,361 |
| 2026 so far | 2,524 |
By region
| Region | Live companies |
|---|---|
| London | 2,696 |
| South East | 1,971 |
| West Midlands | 1,710 |
| North West | 1,359 |
| Yorkshire and The Humber | 1,084 |
| East of England | 1,070 |
| East Midlands | 1,015 |
| Scotland | 750 |
| South West | 674 |
| Wales | 307 |
| North East | 216 |
| Northern Ireland | 44 |
Towns with the most unlicensed carrier companies
Towns with 100 or more live companies; a link opens the page for this industry in that town.
| Town | Region | Live companies |
|---|---|---|
| London | London | 1,471 |
| Birmingham | West Midlands | 568 |
| Manchester | North West | 300 |
| Northampton | East Midlands | 240 |
| Glasgow | Scotland | 213 |
| Leeds | Yorkshire and The Humber | 208 |
| Leicester | East Midlands | 205 |
| Bristol | South West | 170 |
| Coventry | West Midlands | 170 |
| Peterborough | East of England | 167 |
| Doncaster | Yorkshire and The Humber | 156 |
| Luton | East of England | 147 |
| Liverpool | North West | 144 |
| Wolverhampton | West Midlands | 138 |
| Maidstone | South East | 136 |
| Ilford | London | 132 |
| Slough | South East | 129 |
| Southampton | South East | 123 |
| Cardiff | Wales | 121 |
| Nottingham | East Midlands | 119 |
| Milton Keynes | South East | 107 |
| Bradford | Yorkshire and The Humber | 98 |
| Dundee | Scotland | 94 |
| Reading | South East | 90 |
| Oldbury | West Midlands | 88 |
Newest unlicensed carrier companies
Newest first. Each row links to the Companies House record.
Updated November 7, 2026. Read from Companies House Free Company Data Product. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Counts are of live companies in the Companies House snapshot dated 1 November 2026. The snapshot holds basic company data only: no officers and no persons with significant control. A company is counted under each SIC code it lists, up to four. A region is the part of the UK a postcode area mostly falls in. This page uses Companies House data and is not endorsed by Companies House. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.